Brainstorm Island by Abi Daker

Cyprus-based illustrator Abi Daker has sent over Brainstorm Island for the Maps project...

"I started off by drawing the castle and worked outwards from there. I wanted to draw a fantasy map and to put all the ideas I've had for maps in the past in to see what would come out. I think I will work on this again and draw a map of a Smuggler's Island, with more detailed villages and areas of landscape."

Really cool, thanks Abi!

J.S Bach's Concerto D Minor by Nomoco

Nomoco's work is stunning in it's intricacy and it's delicate beauty, and her map for the project is definitely no exception. Nomoco has created this beautiful textured map of Bach's Concerto D Minor.

"I've decided to map one piece of his music as his music influenced me so much."

Incredible, thanks Nomoco!

The Great Outdoors by Lucy Gough

Lucy's alluring map contribution arranges the patchwork-patterns of her countryside, so we can all go roaming about the fields with her...

"I have always been fascinated by the beauty and abstract quality of aerial maps. I particularly love the patchwork effect created by years of farming the same fields.

For my map I produced an abstracted view of rural countryside. It has purposefully been made using generic shapes and an empty compass and map pins. My intention is for anybody to be able to customise the map by utilising the compass and pins and adding landmarks, roads and rivers."

Lucy's artwork mixes stylised drawings with lovely hand rendered typography; have a look at her work here; www.lucygough.com

Nice one Lucy, Thanks!

Map Where I Belong by Louise Norman

Artist and illustrator Louise Norman is no stranger to making and manipulating maps in her own work. For the maps project, she's combined maps of the countries she's visited with her personal encounters...

"It's a pen drawing of all the countries where I've felt I've belonged somehow. How many can you spot? They are all filled in with dots and have small images of memories, experiences, people, circles etc... I always seem to come back to dots and circles in my work, maybe I just belong with them and always will."

Louise has more amazing map drawings over on her website, hit this link! http://www.louisenorman.co.uk/map-drawings.html

Thanks Louise!

Past, Present, Future by Matthew Dent

Illustrator Matthew Dent has sent over his great new map for the project;

"I wanted to create a version of my past, present and future within the world that I create as an illustrator. I looked at the past (building a tree-house, a family trip to NY, summers in the Lake District.) The Present, (My illustration, football and time spent with my girlfriend!) and the future, (Marriage, a family and happy times ahead!)"

Matt's got some really great work over on his website, my favourite has to be his drawing for cycling in London; www.matthewdent.co.uk/#458752/AOI-Transport-For-London

Lovely stuff, thanks very much Matt!

Marylebone to Wrexham by Anna Simmons

Anna Simmons' portfolio is filled with incredibly beautiful and accurately detailed maps so it's great to have her work included in the project. At first you may think her artwork isn't strictly map-like, but let her explain...

"It's a (sort of) map in that it's a record of the Wrexham and Shropshire (the nicest, most old-fashioned, punctual train company in the uk) journey back home to Wales. Each frame is a view from the train window as it travels north west up to Wales. It's a work in progress really as I hope to draw more of what I see each time I travel until I have every last crumb of the journey noted down. Like a train anorak type.
North Wales still feels like home to me, even though I am living here in London. One day I will go back but for now, the journey back connects the two places. There is a Welsh word for the feeling of missing Wales 'hiraeth', it has no direct translation but it means a sort of homesickness and longing for Wales or for what is departed."

See Anna's maps at her website here; www.cartographic.org.uk

Thanks very much Anna!

Greenpointing in Brooklyn by Sarah Lutkenhaus

Our second map of Brooklyn (after Mike Perry's) comes from New York-based designer and illustrator Sarah Lutkenhaus. Greenpointing maps out Sarah's new neighbourhood...

"I just moved from Williamsburg to Greenpoint. Like most moves in New York, the distance may be small (barely one mile), but the changes are dramatic. These are the first impressions I've gotten from walking/biking around the neighborhood."

Love it, thanks Sarah.

Check out Sarah's other work here; www.sarahlutkenhaus.com