Very Expensive Maps

By Evan Applegate

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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

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