For an extended version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyIb3fQO-_k&t=1s Stamen Design's founder Eric Rodenbeck discusses the inspiration behind the design of ...

Stamen Design's founder Eric Rodenbeck discusses the inspiration behind the design of Watercolor Maptiles, recently acquired by Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Watercolor Maptiles is a ...

Maps used to be beautiful, when cartography was as much of an art as a science, and dragons were as likely to be waiting on the other side of the world as new spice trades. But as of late, maps have ...

weekday, to get you going. Here’s what’s buzzing this morning: You might recognize the watercolored grid above as our very own. Yes, it really is downtown Phoenix, and yes, thanks to San ...

here’s a new book out about California that’s selling faster than Berkeley’s Heyday Books can print it. It’s called “The California Field Atlas,” and it’s a thick book of maps. Not road maps, but hand ...

More than once in my several decades of skiing in the West, I’ve gotten lost on a mountain. And many times, I’ve pulled out my James Niehues trail map to get back to a lift or the resort’s lodge. The ...

The Mapping Memory exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, displays maps made in the late 1500s of what is now Mexico. They were created by indigenous peoples to help Spanish ...