Category Archives: maps

July Was Map Month

Posted on August 4, 2019 by

On June 16 Dinahmow posted a call for people to post maps on their blog in July and leave a link in her comments. Somehow I missed the fact that last Sunday was the last Sunday in July (too busy? … Continue reading →

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A Little Bit About A Lot Of Things

Posted on March 3, 2019 by

I am currently working on two projects which I can’t show you as they are planned entries in a juried competition. In the unlikely event that one or other of the jurors should stumble across this blog, it would rather … Continue reading →

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A Celebratory Paper Toy

Posted on February 24, 2019 by

Sometime last Sunday afternoon, this blog reached 100,000 views. While that may not be an impressive number to some, it was quite exciting for me. In celebration, I decided to give away one of the paper toys I designed last … Continue reading →

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Home Again

Posted on October 21, 2018 by

We returned from England on Wednesday evening at 10 p.m. —about 5 a.m. Thursday in England— and I have been busy ever since. The laundry has all been done, and I have had an emergency dental appointment to fix the … Continue reading →

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Still Sorting (but actually getting some work done)

Posted on November 19, 2017 by

The interminable process continues: I am working on clearing my work surfaces bit by bit. Things that are work-related but have no specific home in the house got piled on my two work benches while I was clearing other parts … Continue reading →

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The Box Factory

Posted on May 21, 2017 by

I’ve done quite a bit of production work this week, starting with 25 copies of the label for If I could save time in a bottle. Here’s the layout page in InDesign, and the stack of trimmed labels. Here’s a label glued to an unassembled box. … Continue reading →

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Some Progress and Some Other Things

Posted on March 26, 2017 by

I have now completed fourteen out of sixteen map panels for the work I am tentatively calling Memory Maps. They will be behind sixteen larger YUPO panels, still visible but not obvious. It is taking a while to do the … Continue reading →

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…and a Bit of That.

Posted on February 12, 2017 by

It’s been another of those bits and pieces weeks, busy with scattered activities. Here are some of the things I did, in no particular order. I finished the third and final copy of Finding A Way. Here it is, ready to … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: The Chimney Map

Posted on December 9, 2016 by

My regular readers will already know that I have a bit of a thing about maps. Some readers will also have heard about The Chimney Map, found by a man renovating a house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Looking like nothing more than … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: Food Maps and Meet Illustrator Lucy Engelman

Posted on November 11, 2016 by

The Persistence of Hope is installed as a labyrinth (which is a kind of map), and the book I will be writing about on Sunday uses a map as a design source, so I thought today’s flicks should also be … Continue reading →

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