Maps

Drawing Practice

from drawing practice and researching in to maps Ihave started to look at maps in a completely different way to what I have before. I just saw them as something to tell you were to get from A to B but now it has opened a new way of thinking, researching all the different kinds of maps was really interesting and inspiring. Drawing the UK as a map from memory was so much harder than I thought it would be even though every one knows what the UK looks like it still was very hard to draw. I found this a great challenge. Been able to create my own fantasy island map was really interesting.

                                 Sara Fanelli, map of my day, 1995

Tere are so many different aproches to mapping sara fanelli has mapped her day, bright and colourful hand drawn child-like drawing.

                                         Paula Scher, The World, 1998
Uing typegoraphy to fill in the spaces.

               Kisaburo Ohara, A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, 1904


illustrating the world as objects and animals.

Hereford 'mappamundi' 15th century

This map is mappamundi meaning mappa is cloth and mundi is of the world.