Three B's Flowers in Stony Plain, Alberta, wanted a custom delivery zone map to display on the wall of their shop. We designed the map in collaboration with our client to fit in with their shop decor - black and white with natural wood. Read more to see early drafts and how we calculated the delivery zones.
Herbarella is a quarterly gardening, travel, and lifestyle magazine in Switzerland. I've been working with Gianni Bombèn, the publishing editor, for years now. Each map highlights a specific tourist destination and gives readers a clear picture of the destination at a glance. Read more about our long-time collaboration.
Collin Yarbrough's book, "Paved A Way", discusses infrastructure, policy, and racism, while learning about the history of the Central Expressway in Dallas. I helped Collin create a map showing the neighbourhoods affected by the expressway construction.
I worked with ClimateActionWR to create maps for proposed active transportation hubs to present to the Region and local councils. These hubs are part of a long-term strategy to encourage people to leave their cars at home for short trips within their neighbourhoods.
Greg Madonna's memoir - The Learjet Diaries - is about his time in the 1970s as a pilot flying in South America and the Caribbean. He wanted a series of black and white maps, simple and clean with a serious tone, to illustrate his story. Read more about the development of these maps.
I worked with Jacob Taylor-Mosquera this past spring on a map to accompany his memoir, "I Met Myself in October: A Memoir of Belonging". He writes about his international adoption from Columbia and his search to find his biological family. Read more about our collaboration on a map of Cali for his book.
Strong Start Charitable Organization needed maps to help them track locations of their literacy programs. They weren't able to find an existing map to suit their needs, so they contacted me to create a custom map that would help them plan expansion of their programs into more school districts. Read more about it here.
Last fall I worked with authors writing a book about an 18th-century shipwreck. They wanted a map to show the route of Vrouw Maria, a merchant ship carrying Dutch Masters paintings from Amsterdam to Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg. Unfortunately it sank off the coast of Finland and the treasures were lost for over 200 years. Continue reading more about this map and the upcoming book.
A few months ago, Victoria Adams contacted me to create 4 maps for a book she’s writing about the Book of Job. These maps will illustrate the text, including Biblical locations and places where later commentators lived and travelled. She wanted maps that would give her readers a sense of geography, distance, and cultural background. Read more about this project.
I worked with TravPro Mobile to create maps for many destinations for their mobile sales app. That app informs travel agents about travel destinations. One of our projects was for a map of Central Europe. Read more about the process and see early drafts of the final product.
For the past 3 years I've worked with Mississauga Tourism to update maps for their annual visitor guide. The process takes a few months as they finalize new and changed listings for the coming year. Read about some of the changes to this year's guide, which will be available soon.
Read about how Brampton launched their new cycling guide in 2018. You'll see how we created the map, step by step, and see what's involved with a large project like this.
