Designer and educator Michael Surtees of Design Notes dropped a link to Map Mint this week. If you aren't already familiar with Michael's blog, then swing by. It's a weekly read of mine and features fascinating posts about design.

Oriko Design Buro in Germany has designed Plan.b to make maneuvering through space easier for the blind. This product translates digital maps into tactile maps with sound components.

All photos from Oriko!

Inaba & Associates

Doug Beube

Val Britton

Shane McAdams

I'm guest blogging at Printeresting today.

 

The Katonah Museum of Art's Mapping: Memory & Motion in Contemporary Art has recently opened. Curated by Sarah Tanguy, this exhibition explores concepts related to maps and/or the process of map making. I've mentioned Matt Cusick before here and I'm excited that he is showing Transamerican. Another artist I've been watching and who is also participating is Russell Crotty. He is showing Near the Lost Coast, one of his maps mounted on a fiberglass sphere.

The show "features paintings, works on paper, sculptures, videos, a sound installation, and a live web terminal to address such themes as borders and boundaries, identity and colonialism, journeys—both real and imagined, memory and nostalgia, and tourism and travel." (text from exhibition statement)

Matt Cusick
Russell Crotty

Rob Voerman

Shannon Rankin

Marjolijn Boterenbrood also at Hand Drawn Maps Association

WGTE Public Media is web-casting my lecture at the University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts on Knowledge Stream.

You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City is open at Pratt Mahattan Gallery! Guest curated by Katherine Harmon, author of two of my very favorite books You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination and The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography.

 

San Francisco based artist Liz Hickok is showing a gelatin Manhattan skyline. In 2008, while visiting SF, I stopped into her open studio and got an up close view & smell of her gelatin cities. Several were beginning to melt that night which brought to my mind themes pertaining to land use and disaster.

All images taken from Pratt Manhattan Gallery's exhibition announcement and by the artists.