Paula Scher MAPS exhibit

Paula Scher's amazing map paintings are currently on view at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York. Though I've loved them for a long time, I had never seen one of the paintings in person, so I ventured to the gallery last weekend to see them firsthand. I highly recommend you do the same if you're in the NY area (and hurry, because the exhibit is only up until February 18th!) If I happen to win the lottery or miraculously come across a large sum of money, I'd like to buy one of these and hang it on my wall. Until then, I'll just stare longingly at the iPhone photos I took (which hardly begin to do them justice).

The world is flat

I love maps, and I'm drooling over this one by You Me and the Royal We. It even comes with push pins—200 black ones to mark where you've been, 1 red one for "headquarters," and 1 blue one for "next target."



(via Unruly Things)

Which way to the Band-Aids?

Wow. Talk about handmade. Karen O'Leary made these map cutouts of Paris and New York...and I don't even want to think about how long they took her (or how many cuts she received while making them).



(via Swissmiss)

Vintage Maps

Ancient maps are quite pretty...and amusing, as in the case of the map of the "island of California" below.

(via Nubby Twiglet)