From the map ‘n’ chart makers who brought you Constitutions of Classic Cocktails and The Beauteous Bike Lanes of New York City, here’s “a ridiculously detailed guide to the semantics of rap names.” That’s just a detail. The thing’s huge. Read more »
The Taxonomy of All Teenagers & More Ward Shelley at Pierogi
This is a detail of Ward Shelley’s epic chart of teenagers from forever-ago ’till today, with all their subcultures thoroughly mapped. See the strong artery of Consumerism, the flowing vein of Hip Hop, the capilary of Hippies that gets cut right off at “Freaks” because then what? Nothing, maaaaan. Read more »
Art map master Eric Fischer is back to make cartographic sense of all that location data you’re giving away for free on Twitter. This is New York, with New Yorkers’ trips routed and their geotag density mapped out in “10000 points, 30000 vectors.” What do we learn? Broadway is “the spine.” Well, that does make sense. Read more »
Tangled, Twisted, Gorgeous Information-Overload Maps
Fellow art-minded map enthusiasts please note: Paula Scher’s her large-scale cartographic paintings are coming to the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery and they’re fantastic. Culling info from news headlines, commercial maps, diagrams of various sorts, info info info infinite, the graphic artists creates her own maps, obsessively synthesizing all this chaos with hand-drawn typography and artistic flourishes reminisicent of Fred Tomaselli. Read more »
Some people might think that this sociographical map of New Jersey is not funny, racially insensitive, “unfortunate” and shows “the worst possible side of things,” but Reddit enjoyed it so much that Rutgers University graduate/research assistant Joe Steinfeld has come forward as the creator. While New Yorkers are fine with observing Jersey from over here, this gent is all up in there, supposedly, so he’s going to tell you which are the parts for “Executives living in mansions with Mercedes Benzes,” “Sad black people and misguided tourists” and “Russians, Polacks and Toxic Fume” (ahem!) and also “Where they filmed Clerks.” (Click to enlarge) Read more »
See all those purple dots? Each one represents the occupant of a vehicle who was killed in an auto accident between 2001 and 2009. Read more »
New map-related internet trinket alert! Ever find yourself lost in the illogical, circular Moscow grid or driving aimlessly through the winding, sread-out-to-nowhere nonsense of the streets of Los Angeles? Not to worry. The ExtendNY site will project our city grid from Manhattan’s 1st and 1st onwards and around the globe so you can la-pretend-ignore-la-la other less conveniently engineered cities where you happen to get homesick. Read more »
Here is an interactive, maintained map of #OccupyWallSt actions, protests and related updates across the contiguous nation and beyond, namely Alaska, Hawaii and… Australia? That’s right, #OccupyOZ is coming to Melbourne on Oct 15. ‘Cause guess what? Read more »
Here it is, The Beauteous Bike Lanes of New York City map from minamalist design specialists, the Pop Chart Lab. It only shows “the important parts” — crisscross bike lanes, bike paths and routes, all charted neatly in earthy, happy colors, “pressed with vegetable-based inks in Red Hook, Brooklyn” on the purest of recycled paper. Doesn’t it sound holy? Get your 18″ x 24″ print here. Hang it on your wall. Pray on it. Rub it for good luck. Scribble more bike lanes on as they sprout up. Dot on some bike share hubs, if they ever come. It’s your city. (Click to enlarge)
The MTA will release maps every Friday on their website that aim to explain all of the horrible construction going on that weekend. Thanks for the added clarity, but we still just want our trains to run on time. You can also view the map one borough at a time, so Brooklynites can now realize in under 30 seconds how landlocked they are until Monday morning comes around. Read more »
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