Radical Cartography

Ok, so I was surfing around yesterday and I found this super cool site, Radical Cartography, through a link on The LuLu Bird's blog...

A fellow named Bill Rankin started it (he's a graduate student in the departments of history of science and architecture at Harvard), seemingly as a place to collect beautiful, interesting and experimental maps of everything from suicides to the Mississippi River to area codes to Tokyo without names. If you like graphics, you will find this a lovely Friday playground and full of artistic and design ideas. Thanks, Bill! & Enjoy!

>> radicalcartography.net
>> Bill Rankin

>> The Lulu Bird Blog

Posted by Maxwell Ryan

Maxwell left teaching in 2001 to start Apartment Therapy as a design business helping people to make their homes more beautiful, organized AND healthy. The website started up in 2004 with the help of his brother, Oliver.
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Comments (8)

Where IS that first map? I love that one and would totally plunk down for it (not that the wonderful info graphics aren't also super neat too)!

aglewis106: I agree. Here's the link:
http://www.radicalcartography.net/?fisk

ah, thanks for that. I looked on the site but had a hard time finding the exact link.

Thanks, I actually found it myself after enough searching! Bonus, for those just checking these comments: You can link directly to the original source files (and they're big!) so these could easily be printed out on some nice paper to make some totally awesome wall art!

You might want to check out The Agile Rabbit Book of Historical & Curious Maps, from Pepin Press. It comes with a CD. Much fun for map lovers!

Oh I love love love the NYC building height one. I will be getting that printed to go in my pink room.

The map of the "Ture Love River" has stolen my heart.

Map lovers might want to check out this stationery made from recycled vintage (and other) maps:

www.shopdote.com/notecards.html

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