Very Expensive Maps

You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com

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episode 1: Alex Hotchin: “making a career out of drawing how beautiful the world can be”


Australian cartographer and illustrator Alex Hotchin talks about her first map, cycling from Scotland to Cambodia sans GPS, and “a career drawing how beautiful the world can be.” See her work at alexhotchin.com

  • Alex's first creative map: bottom of the page, “Jericho”
  • Martijn Doolaard’s Two Years on a Bike
  • NACIS Atlas of Design 
  • Ed Fairburn’s portraits in maps  
  • Sara Drake’s handmade maps 


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 April 23, 2023  18m