Very Expensive Maps

Jake Coolidge: “It’s a great way to learn a place, to try to map it well.”


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Redwood City cartographer and artist Jake Coolidge on making maps the hard way with ink, graphite, a metal scribe, copper, wax and ferric chloride, the difference between in silico and in vivo cartographic generalization, creating novel projections with two-point perspective, learning to letter backwards, training the eye before you train your mouse hand, how a mapmaking process will teach you something about the landscape, and his efforts to combine the handmade with the digital. See his work at jakecoolidgecartography.com

  • 15x11” Mt. Rainier: intaglio print from a copper plate etching
  • 55x13.5” California
  • 32x17” Columbia River Watershed
  • 60x15” Western Shore of Lake Michigan
  • Speculative bay area transit map
  • Oakland bike route map
  • DeLorme road atlas
  • Stanford Spatial History Project
  • QGIS
  • Richard Edes Harrison
  • Erwin Raisz
  • Print Zero Studios
  • Nikki Jabbora-Barber
  • Harry Beck’s London Tube Map
  • Eduard Imhof
  • Daniel Huffman (taught me how to map 🙏)
  • Amy Lee Walton
  • Mamata Akella
  • Jim Eynard
  • Joe Milbrath
  • Alex Fries
  • Tom Patterson
  • Becca Holdhusen
  • Nolli map of Rome
  • Turgot map of Paris
  • NACIS conference
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