Detours of Delight

Maps to Get Lost In: Artists and Writers Make Crazy Cartographers

Commission maps by imaginative people, and you can guarantee that not only will they send you on the scenic route but that they will redefine the scenic route while they’re at it. That’s what happened when a publisher asked 16 artists and writers to design a boxful of maps.

galleries/2014/04/13/maps-to-get-lost-in-artists-and-writers-make-crazy-cartographers/all_j0mdij — Commission maps by imaginative people, and you can guarantee that not only will they send you on the scenic route but that they will redefine the scenic route while they’re at it. That’s what happened when a publisher asked 16 artists and writers to design a boxful of maps.

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