“Looking at a map is like looking into a fire in a fireplace; there’s a sense of something happening all the time, and it draws you in,” said Anders Mattsson, a cabinetmaker for Svenskt Tenn. The ...

Austrian designer Philipp Doringer took a master’s degree in Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. He is currently working at Studio Joost Grootens in Amsterdam, run by the self-taught ...

Data Through Design is an annual alternative cartography and art exhibition held during New York City’s Open Data Week, an endeavor of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics. The objective of the ...

The stark white-on-black image on the cover of “Cartographic Grounds,” edited by Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim, is beautiful and mysterious. Is this Antarctica? Or somewhere within the Arctic ...

From charts of UFO sightings in the United States to surveys of bear population density in Finland to a 3-D visualization of where London’s airport employees live, a new collection of maps shows off ...

Professor Ernst Spiess, born in 1930, is the former head of the Institute of Cartography at ETH Zurich. In 1955, he earned a degree in Surveying Engineering at ETH Zurich and he was the personal ...

If you want to see the world through a child’s eyes, ask her to draw a map. Or you could spend some time with this collection of maps from the International Cartographic Association’s (ICA) biennial ...

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has published Tactile Mapping: Cartography for People with Visual Impairments, a collection of expert-written chapters, case studies, and user stories ...