Back to the Drawing Board: NACIS PCD 2019
Here are slides and speaker notes from my presentation at the annual NACIS conference in Tacoma, Washington, October 16 2019. Scroll to the bottom for a few links to additional resources. All of the videos from the Tacoma conference are […]
Blanco River map
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 […]
Map Illustration Starter Kit
To go with my talk on “Hand-Rendered Map Illustration Techniques” at the 2016 North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference, I’ve put together a list of materials for those new to map illustration. I’ll be following this with blog posts […]
Heywood Hotel map
The Heywood Hotel had me at “Hey.” Very thoughtful owners developed the property from a single-family home into a stunning and completely neighborhood-appropriate seven-room hotel. From the street, the Heywood modestly matches the scale of the small wooden houses that […]
Custom maps in Tribeza magazine
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 […]
Time-lapse illustration video
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 […]
First gig: map for Wendell Berry
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 […]