Archive for category: Custom Maps

Author Wes Ferguson contacted me in autumn of 2014 to talk about commissioning a map for his book The Blanco River. The book was slated for publication in 2015–and then came the Memorial Day floods. Two years later, after Wes […]

Chicago is ready to welcome a new trail system built from the remnants of an industrial rail line and I am pleased to have collaborated with The Trust for Public Land to make three print maps intended for on-the-ground use. I […]

It was a delight to visit Bradley Hutchinson’s pristine letterpress shop the other day to view the printed map page for Catherine Docter’s new volume The Village Churches of Santiago de Guatemala, 1527—2010. The book, designed by Hutchinson, includes silver […]

Congratulations to author Paul Scolieri and the University of Texas Press! Professor Scolieri’s book Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest has received the 2014 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research. Paul sent a […]

Even when you’re at home, a map can really help you know where you are. A customer with a family home on the Pacific ocean wanted to include a map of the area in a new bar backsplash. His dad […]

Austin’s TRIBEZA magazine featured my custom map work in their November 2013 article “Classic Crafts”. Despite a case of the jitters, it was good fun to have photographer Kenny Braun and writer S. Kirk Walsh over to the studio. We […]

https://vimeo.com/56607643 Hand-rendered maps can be an exhilarating yet labor-intensive proposition. Client Mark Hall came to me with the desire for a piece of original art to commemorate the success of his first feature-length documentary film, Sushi: The Global Catch. He […]

I’m humbled that one of my pen and ink maps, in fact my first freelance assignment, continues to appear alongside the writings of national treasure Wendell Berry. Since being introduced to his work in a university course, I have devoured […]