A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers is a book of creative insights about our diverse planet edited by Antonis Antoniou, R. Klanten, H. Ehmann and H. Hellige.

About the book:

A Map of the World is a compelling collection of work by a new generation of original and sought-after designers, illustrators, and mapmakers. This work showcases specific regions, characterizes local scenes, generates moods, and tells stories beyond sheer navigation. From accurate and surprisingly detailed representations to personal, naïve, and modernistic interpretations, the featured projects from around the world range from maps and atlases inspired by classic forms to cartographic experiments and editorial illustrations.

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A couple of the items I’ve added to my Thinx Gifts store for the “worldly” drinkers out there.

The world according to Sara Drake 

The artPause Etsy store carries maps that are all kinds of awesome.

Wendy Gold’s fantastic decoupaged vintage globes 

Stuck at home on a staycation when you’d rather be looking out over Manhattan from a high-rise hotel? Would you like to see the view from the top of the Swiss Alps but you get winded climbing a flight of stairs? There are plenty of reasons to enjoy the fantastic collection of 360 degree panoramas of some of the world’s most beautiful places available on AirPano. 

As we contemplate the full impact of reaching a world population of 7 billion, it seems like a good time to check out National Geographic’s slideshow of the 10 least crowded places in the world. 

A fantastic project by designer David Hanauer puts the world under your feet in a whole new way.

The project shows different patterns for a carpet / carpeted floor. It is about identity, new patterns, google, architecture. It reflects a new identity of products as well as humans and the interaction between them.
Comparing to Persian carpets of former times, “worldwide carpets” interprets ornaments from these times into the 21st century.
The pattern represents a photograph which is built with the help of screenshots in Google Earth. It shows landscapes from a bird’s eye view.

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nevada Museum of Art, this Museum of ideas is releasing « Altered Landscape : Photographs of a Changing Environment », featuring a selection of the museum’s permanent collection. Since its inception in 1990, this photographic collection has grown to include more than 900 prints by leading photographers including Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Edward Burtynsky, Amy Stein, Terry Evans, David Maisel, Olivo Barbieri and Fandra Chang.