Map art lab : 52 exciting art explorations in map making, imagination, and travel / Jill K. Berry, Linden McNeilly.

"Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds. Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on creative experiences. Map Lab is the perfect book for map lovers, creative/DIY-inspired, designers. Artists of all ages and experience levels can use this book to explore enjoyable and engaging exercises. Everyone loves maps. And what's not to love? They are beautiful and fascinating, they teach you things, they show you where you are, places you long to go, and places you dare to imagine"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (page 140).

Print version record.

English.

Title; Contents; Introduction; UNIT No 01 MAP BASICS; LAB 01: Orient Yourself; LAB 02: Compass Rose; LAB 03: Legends; LAB 04: Creating Sea Monsters; LAB 05: Creative Cartouches; LAB 06: Neatlines; LAB 07: Scale Your Bedroom; LAB 08: Topo Your Nose; UNIT No 02 MAP MAGIC; LAB 09: Geo Paper 1: Flying over Kansas; LAB 10: Geo Paper 2: Dripping Ink Streets; LAB 11: City Blocks in Plastic and Wax; LAB 12: String Up Longs and Lats; LAB 13: Stencil Maps; LAB 14: Transparent Layer Map; LAB 15: Mother Nature's Maps; Featured Fun: Pop-Ups and Folded Maps; UNIT No 03 FLAT MAPS.

LAB 16: Zentangle® Your VacationLAB 17: Journaling One-Liners; LAB 18: Story Maps; LAB 19: Custom Constellations; LAB 20: Map of Origins; LAB 21: Word Map; LAB 22: Use Google Maps to Map Your House; LAB 23: The Road to Success; Featured Mapper: Masako Kubo, stencil maps; UNIT No 04 MIXED-MEDIA MAPS; LAB 24: Upcycled Adventures; LAB 25: Hearth and Home; LAB 26: Tea-Dyed Treasure Map; LAB 27: Tessellating Tiles; LAB 28: Personal Planets; LAB 29: In Stitches; LAB 30: Mosaic Map; Featured Mappers: Navajo Nation High School; UNIT No 05 PERSONAL MAPS; LAB 31: Map of You and Me.

LAB 32: Scroll Through TimeLAB 33: Getting To Know You: Mapping Tables and Dorms; LAB 34: Get Your Game On; LAB 35: Heart Street Map; LAB 36: Detours; LAB 37: Collaborative Map Box; LAB 38: Magical Places; Featured Mappers: Burnaby Mountain Secondary School; UNIT No 06 CARTOGRAPHIC PROJECTS; LAB 39: Cartographic Collage with Peter Clark; LAB 40: Personify a Place; LAB 41: Puzzled Again; LAB 42: Cartographic Jewelry; LAB 43: The Ancient Mariner's Journal; LAB 44: Cartographic Correspondence; LAB 45: Cutout Maps; Featured Mapper: Anne Marie Gee; UNIT No 07 INSPIRED BY ARTISTS.

LAB 46: Fantasy NeighborsLAB 47: Wired Up with Alexander Calder; LAB 48: Gustav Klimt: A Village for Artists; LAB 49: My Mondrian; LAB 50: Lucky Earth with Corita Kent; LAB 51: Barcelona with Miró; LAB 52: Max's Map with Maira Kalman; Resources; Contributors; Acknowledgments; About the Authors.

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