Very Expensive Maps
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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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Reynold Mackey: “When you pick up the globe, you feel time.”
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Neil Allen: “Making a map in isolation is never a good idea.”
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Hap Wilson: “If there’s no risk then there’s no adventure, right?”
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May 13, 2024 |
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Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.”
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.”
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Andrew Middleton: “There’s something poetic about running a map store.”
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Lionel Portier: “What I'm trying to convey with my maps is the pleasure of seeing beautiful things.”
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Isaac Dushku: “A map has to evoke a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home.”
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Sam Usle: “Slowly but surely we’re starting to recover the built environment.”
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.”
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Matthew Dean Shaffer: “My approach is to try and be as accurate as possible.“
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Jamshid Kooros: “These maps are based on walking, walking, walking.”
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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David Kulbeth: “It's taken so long to get everything just right because there's no guidebook to this.”
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Sophie Parr: “I have to mathematically scale it, plan it, sketch it, draw it.”
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Lee France: “It was fun to try to achieve those paper map elements in this new digital space.”
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.”
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Tom Patterson: “Right now is the golden age of cartography.”
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Melinda Clarke & Deborah Young Monk: “The beauty of the whole project is that we had no idea what we were doing.”
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Neil Gower: “Twice a week I’ll make a mark on paper and think ‘I wouldn’t want to be doing anything other than what I’m doing.”
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Andrew Lynch: “I wish somebody else had done this, but I guess I'm gonna have to figure it out.”
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Danielle Currie: “Zoom in buddy, it ain’t paint!”
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Gabriel Camus: “That would be the dream, to make this city that never ends.”
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Simon Polster: “I was hitchhiking from Iran to Berlin and spent quite a long time in the Caucasus.”
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Kevin Sheehan: “There’s something good about using old ways of doing things.”
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Jeff Clark: “Paper maps are dead, long live paper maps.”
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Anthony Despalins: “I feel this energy when creating impossible landscapes, spaces, configurations.”
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Grant Preller: “It started as a fun project and has turned into something I would definitely call a vocation.”
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Aaron Taveras: “I would stare at topos for days on end and thought it’d be fun to make them myself.”
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Jake Coolidge: “It’s a great way to learn a place, to try to map it well.”
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May 30, 2023 |
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Daniel Coe: “Science and art can make these really interesting images.”
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May 24, 2023 |
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Anton Thomas: “That mix of serious cartography and serious art; I love that.”
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May 23, 2023 |
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Nat Slaughter: “I seem to be drawn to maps that have a timeless quality.”
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May 22, 2023 |
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Jane Crosen: “I thought ‘Well, I’m going to do my own labels using calligraphy, and then I can be my own typesetting machine.’”
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May 19, 2023 |
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Jug Cerović: “The map is the reality; the infrastructure is entirely virtual.”
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May 18, 2023 |
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Jeff Murray: “The slogan within my work is ‘look closer.’”
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May 16, 2023 |
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Carl Churchill: “Immersing myself in thousands of high quality maps allowed me to develop a certain style.”
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May 10, 2023 |
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Elliot Park: “Why would you want to create a relief map you can’t touch?”
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May 09, 2023 |
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Kirsten Sparenborg: “I elaborate on the emotion of places when I make maps.”
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May 07, 2023 |
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Aurélien Boyer-Moraes: “The most important part is that the map goes to the public, it’s useful, and it’s used.”
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May 05, 2023 |
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Bill Marsh: “There’s something really useful about seeing the whole thing in one sweep, in great detail, all at once.”
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May 02, 2023 |
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Travis Folk: “Surely there are folks desirous of traditional cartography of a modern landscape.”
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May 01, 2023 |
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Alex McPhee: “I love watching over people’s shoulders as they interact with what I do.”
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Kate Tarling: “When you’re stitching, you’re stitching footsteps into that landscape.”
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Sara Drake: “My brain thinks in 3D rather than 2D.”
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Mike Hall: “I keep returning to that mid-twentieth-century style.”
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Anna Eshelman: “Where water carves; that’s fascinating to me.”
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Alex Hotchin: “making a career out of drawing how beautiful the world can be”
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Apr 23, 2023 |