THE ART OF MAPS

Whilst many of us have probably always considered maps to be beautiful or aesthetically endearing, maps are actually works of art in their own right.  In fact, this is such a large and growing branch of mapping, that its hard to keep up with all the artists out there working with this awesome medium (who knew?!)

Here are a few to get you going anyway:

Stefana McClure makes cool 3D sculptures out of thin strips of paper maps.




 Nina Katchadourian is mixing things up.

Kathryn Rodrigues arts maps.

Jason LaFerrera is creating beautiful collages of wildlife specimens