Coffee Break: Design, Art, &c.

Unfortunately I’m pressed for time this week as I’ve got a flight to catch in a little while, but this one link that I’m sharing is more than enough to keep y’all busy until I get back from the Arctic Midwest.

STRANGE MAPS: A journal devoted to finding and dissecting maps of all sorts. Perhaps this speaks volumes to me as when I was a wee lad I would spend hours drawing fantastical landforms on graph paper. Nevertheless, there are so many good things here — a rendering of what George Orwell’s 1984 might look like, an examination of the Sykes-Picot Plan, and the story of the Lost Continent of Mu, just to name a few — that I’m sure every single one of you can find something to love.

That is, unless you’re a heartless bastard. And no one likes a heartless bastard on Valentine’s Day, so suck it up — http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/


Comments

5 responses to “Coffee Break: Design, Art, &c.”

  1. Awesome. I can see not getting my homework done and playing with this for hours…you know me, I love maps. All my current drawings are maps combining various degrees of real and imagined places…

  2. The Mousetraps Avatar
    The Mousetraps

    Maps! Nice one, Mikey… Geography is so cool, especially geography of make-believe places. And maps are such an amazing art. If you have any of your old ones from when you were a kid I’d be happy to hang them on my fridge! Have fun in the Midwest, and hopefully you know which states border Iowa. If not, study a map, son.

  3. This is my favorite post of any so far.

  4. so much fun, what a rad post mikey.

  5. pedalsongs Avatar

    My shower curtain is a map of the world. This is why I now take such long showers. Sorry drought.

    Neat post, I’m sure that I won’t accomplish anything meaningful for a very long time to come.
    Thanks!

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