I've recently realised that I love maps.
They tell you where you are, where you can go and unlike technology they are always there is there's no signal.
I've started buying old maps and keeping them, I find it interesting that they all have the same purpose and job, but yet look so different!
I bought a Amsterdam map from the 1960's in a old antique shop for 20p and I think its the best map I've ever seen. It's so beautiful.
The history of map making has been around for a very long time most possibily up to 8,000 years.
The map is a key part of the human story.
The earliest map started out on a cave wall called Lascaux with cave men used dots to map out the sky dated 16,500 BCE. These maps progressed into the ancient maps of Babylon, Greece and Asia. Throughout the centuries the basis of maps have always been the same to mark of where landscapes are in a relative mannor. People created them to help define explain and navigate their way through the world.
Without the map nothing would be possible that we do today.
Maps lead the way for human beings to develop their interlect and follow the development of different cultures.
Below are two images from the Lascaux cave showing the dots used to represent time and space.
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-ancient.html
The ancient maps of Babylonia were created using accurate surveying techniques, taking a lot of time to create.
Throughout the years maps have changed obviouly the human species knows more but also because as empires where conquered, the landscape of the territory chnaged. In each battle new regions were conquered resulting in new maps being created and showing the expansion on each empire.
Heres some pictures of maps that I like and some that are inspiring because they're so different:
Maps in GD today . . .
WE WILL BE HERE - THE MAP OF THE FUTURE
The italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-map-of-the-future/319690
Mapping Stereotypes ProjectThe Geography of Prejudicehttp://www.behance.net/gallery/Mapping-Stereotypes/355732
This infographic map was originally made for a school project in 2006. The version you see above is a remake done in 2009. It's about the film "Adaptation", trying to define the characters actions and the flashbacks and flashforwards in the film.
The ancient maps of Babylonia were created using accurate surveying techniques, taking a lot of time to create.
Throughout the years maps have changed obviouly the human species knows more but also because as empires where conquered, the landscape of the territory chnaged. In each battle new regions were conquered resulting in new maps being created and showing the expansion on each empire.
Heres some pictures of maps that I like and some that are inspiring because they're so different:
Maps in GD today . . .
The italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-map-of-the-future/319690
Mapping Stereotypes ProjectThe Geography of Prejudicehttp://www.behance.net/gallery/Mapping-Stereotypes/355732
This work is featured in the book "Data Flow 2" from Gestalten:
THE FOREIGN POLICY 2009 WORLD CALENDAR =========================================
Our idea for this self-promotion project is to communicate our existence and arrival to the new country, Singapore from New York City and leveraging on our name "Foreign Policy". We decided to blend concepts of current affairs, political affairs, maps, the world and the leaders, to be used as content o n the piece.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Foreign-Policy-2009-CalendarSelf-Promo-Kit/317907
My Family Tree
Technique:print Size: 700mmX1000m/ 2005
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The family tree is a personal journey, learning about the people who make up my family,
a possible final attempt at documenting memories, photographs, stories, people and places spanning different periods
of time. Using maps, I navigate my way to the places I want to study and explore; my entire family is spread before me.
I merely place my finger on those seldom discussed, interesting parts. I chose five subjects which are
translated into five double sided maps- one side is always informative, text-dependent and contains memories of different people. The second side is my interpretation of the first side; it is personal and maintains the dynamics between me,
my family, and the place I am connecting from.
Technique:print Size: 700mmX1000m/ 2005
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The family tree is a personal journey, learning about the people who make up my family,
a possible final attempt at documenting memories, photographs, stories, people and places spanning different periods
of time. Using maps, I navigate my way to the places I want to study and explore; my entire family is spread before me.
I merely place my finger on those seldom discussed, interesting parts. I chose five subjects which are
translated into five double sided maps- one side is always informative, text-dependent and contains memories of different people. The second side is my interpretation of the first side; it is personal and maintains the dynamics between me,
my family, and the place I am connecting from.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/My-Family-Tree/337520
Illustration series / Client: personal
Illustration series / Client: personal
Cities is an urban survey of Helsinki, London and New York. It is a series of posters and small prints exhibited first time at Kaapeli (Cable Factory) Helsinki during the Factory Superstars group exhibition on October 2010.
HAIDEMÜHL - Balance of a lost village
Five folders including 20 maps, dealing with the relocation of the East German village of Haidemuehl in 2006.
Every single map can be read and paged through like a magazine untill it is completely unfolded. Once unfolded,
the maps highlight the essential information belonging on the individual subjects. The flipsides of the
maps are DIN A0-sized photographs shot with a Sinar P2 / 8x10 inch.
The project "Haidemühl" covers the following subjects:
01. The devastated ghotstown of Haidemuehl02. Surface mining in Brandenburg, Eastern Germany03. The brown coal power station Schwarze Pumpe
04. Renaturation and recultivation05. The relocated village of Haidemuehl
20 maps (format DIN A0 folded down to DIN A4)
The used photographs can be seen in the project "Haidemühl - Photography".
Every single map can be read and paged through like a magazine untill it is completely unfolded. Once unfolded,
the maps highlight the essential information belonging on the individual subjects. The flipsides of the
maps are DIN A0-sized photographs shot with a Sinar P2 / 8x10 inch.
The project "Haidemühl" covers the following subjects:
01. The devastated ghotstown of Haidemuehl02. Surface mining in Brandenburg, Eastern Germany03. The brown coal power station Schwarze Pumpe
04. Renaturation and recultivation05. The relocated village of Haidemuehl
20 maps (format DIN A0 folded down to DIN A4)
The used photographs can be seen in the project "Haidemühl - Photography".
- Gullkalven 2010 / The Golden Calf 2010
The annual student championship in creative communication - Every year The Golden Calf changes its appearance. Traditionally it has always been an ox calf, but this time we went searching in our own neck of the woods for inspiration. The Golden Calf of 2010 was reincarnated as a deer calf and every student was invited to hunt for it and other trophies in the vast creative terrain.
The design team
Helene Hofstad Havro
Lene Sundsbø
Tore Teksle
Jon Koslung
Christian Horseng
Sindre Martin Dahl
Chaoyang Men Nei Dajie [Urban Carpet: Cyan]. 2009
180x180 cm. embroidery on canvasSeries of 8 carpets representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. All along year 2009 the urban carpets will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes in order to share the project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from.
Lizzie Mary Cullen
The ‘Pendurance Challenge’ – 24 hr non-stop drawing in London directed by suggestions from social networking platform Twitter.
The challenge was to complete 50 London locations in 24 hours, riding to each location on a Boris Bike and working on site on a massive roll of paper. I teamed up with webzine Think-Work-Play, and together we made a wager; if I didn’t complete this challenge, i’d face a humiliating forfeit. So the race was on!
How it worked was Twitter users would tweet their favourite London location, with a good anecdote attached to it, then we would make our way to the chosen place, I would draw it, and it would be uploaded immediately to Flickr. Barclays Cycle Hire had kindly given me a bike key for the duration of the project, and me, my Boris bike and the team at Think-Work-Play started out from Charing Cross at 12pm.
The challenge was a lot harder than I thought it’d be. Not because of the drawing, but when the exhuastion kicked in around 1am, it felt really hard to get back on the bike and ride to the next location. However, with one hour’s sleep at Think-Work-Play’s offices, I completed the challenge, finishing on time at 12pm beneath the London eye, completing my final (50th) illustration.
Then went to have a well earned beer.
The challenge was to complete 50 London locations in 24 hours, riding to each location on a Boris Bike and working on site on a massive roll of paper. I teamed up with webzine Think-Work-Play, and together we made a wager; if I didn’t complete this challenge, i’d face a humiliating forfeit. So the race was on!
How it worked was Twitter users would tweet their favourite London location, with a good anecdote attached to it, then we would make our way to the chosen place, I would draw it, and it would be uploaded immediately to Flickr. Barclays Cycle Hire had kindly given me a bike key for the duration of the project, and me, my Boris bike and the team at Think-Work-Play started out from Charing Cross at 12pm.
The challenge was a lot harder than I thought it’d be. Not because of the drawing, but when the exhuastion kicked in around 1am, it felt really hard to get back on the bike and ride to the next location. However, with one hour’s sleep at Think-Work-Play’s offices, I completed the challenge, finishing on time at 12pm beneath the London eye, completing my final (50th) illustration.
Then went to have a well earned beer.
What happens when our art director gets married - wedding print madness!
Colors - Words Will Kill Me (Album package)
CD Artwork and packaging proposal set for West Australian indie band 'Colors.' The album is called 'Words will kill me.' The artwork is applied to CD, Rear Inset and Inner pamphlet.
The idea is based upon the very rigid layout and structure of signs, maps and manuals. I have explored the notion of destroying grid, structure and uniformity by applying many graphical elements in an un-conventional, 'messy' way.
This zine was created for my courseowrk at college, looking my journey and experiences on our trip to Berlin, Germany.
This is a linocarving series, of cities from around the world, called, Where in the World. Its uses a traditional method of lino cutting to made modern pieces of illustration/design
In the summer of 2009, I traveled to Seattle to do an internship with the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. GSTSC specializes in providing adventurers with all the necessary goods for safe and efficient space travel. All profits made from the sale of these goods goes towards 826 Seattle, a non-profit writing workshop center for kids of all ages.
For my internship, I designed this: the Map of the Known Universe. Much kudos to Justin Allan and everyone at 826 Seattle for their creative writing, and all the energy they brought to the project.
To purchase a copy, click here.
Also, these pictures do not really capture the enormity of detail in this poster.
Awards
• Copper Ingot Award, Salt Lake AIGA 100 Show, 2010
For my internship, I designed this: the Map of the Known Universe. Much kudos to Justin Allan and everyone at 826 Seattle for their creative writing, and all the energy they brought to the project.
To purchase a copy, click here.
Also, these pictures do not really capture the enormity of detail in this poster.
Awards
• Copper Ingot Award, Salt Lake AIGA 100 Show, 2010
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