*Written on Sunday. Because I can.
- Jennifer Davey’s Fort Collins Art Map is on display at the Fort Collins Museum of Art until September 28. It’s an aerial painting of Fort Collins, painted on tiles (yes, literally, tiles). There’s a nifty “making of” video here. I was fortunate to be out on the town with Angel Kwiatkowski–Cohere owner and map-tile idea maker herself–the other night and got to see it in person:
- Seeing and experiencing new works of art is always inspiring for map makers, and if you’re into Chihuli, you’ll love the Denver Botanic Gardens’ exhibition that goes on from now until November 30, 2014. The gardens are of course amazing, and adding in bold-colored Chihuli glass just makes them amazing-er. Interspersed with the grape vines laden with fruit, the xeriscape path, and the Japanese Bonsai are: a boat filled to the brim with blue and purple party shapes, a stream boasting light blue glass bubbles, a pink and white polka-dotted “tree” at the end of an allée, and red non-menacing spears peaking out from afar, among others. Lessons for map making? Color groups please viewers, never underestimate the value of a sensational centerpiece idea, and provide your data in context. Also, I might add that I actually used a paper map of the gardens the two days I visited. Paper!
- The other day I was very surprised to get a box from Dave Imus ( I think you’ll remember him as the creator of The Greatest Paper Map of The United States You’ll Ever See) and completely touched to find in it a framed print of his beautiful Chesapeake Bay Watershed map. It’s so good that I’m replacing the Maroon Bells aspen-tree hiking photo in my office with the Imus map. And that’s saying a lot. Thanks Dave, it will provide inspiration for many years to come!
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