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Kevin Sheehan: “There’s something good about using old ways of doing things.”
Manage episode 374500520 series 3503335
East Yorkshire artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan discusses picking a fight with fellow history PhDs by drawing a 19x29” calfskin portolan chart of the Mediterranean, spending 2 months stippling the lunar surface with a dip pen, acquiring a novel accent after 20 years in England, heated conversations with flat earthers over his map of the moon, how to make your own 1400s-style transfer paper with candle soot, and how “there’s something good about using, or at least trying, old ways of doing things.” See his work at https://www.manuscriptmaps.com
- The Moon Map
- Whisky Map of Scotland
- Gin Map of Great Britain & Ireland
- The Paris Map
- Kevin’s calfskin portolan map
- The 1403 original by Franciscus Becharius
- Created for his doctoral thesis: The Functions of Portolan Maps: An evaluation of the utility of manuscript nautical cartography from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries
- Pergamena
- Claire Fanjul
- Francesca Baerald
- Sara Farooqi
- Neil Gower
- Anton Thomas
- Rumsey map collection
- NACIS annual meeting
Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com
I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co
Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
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Manage episode 374500520 series 3503335
East Yorkshire artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan discusses picking a fight with fellow history PhDs by drawing a 19x29” calfskin portolan chart of the Mediterranean, spending 2 months stippling the lunar surface with a dip pen, acquiring a novel accent after 20 years in England, heated conversations with flat earthers over his map of the moon, how to make your own 1400s-style transfer paper with candle soot, and how “there’s something good about using, or at least trying, old ways of doing things.” See his work at https://www.manuscriptmaps.com
- The Moon Map
- Whisky Map of Scotland
- Gin Map of Great Britain & Ireland
- The Paris Map
- Kevin’s calfskin portolan map
- The 1403 original by Franciscus Becharius
- Created for his doctoral thesis: The Functions of Portolan Maps: An evaluation of the utility of manuscript nautical cartography from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries
- Pergamena
- Claire Fanjul
- Francesca Baerald
- Sara Farooqi
- Neil Gower
- Anton Thomas
- Rumsey map collection
- NACIS annual meeting
Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com
I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co
Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
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1 Reynold Mackey: “When you pick up the globe, you feel time.” 43:34

1 Neil Allen: “Making a map in isolation is never a good idea.” 54:17

1 Hap Wilson: “If there’s no risk then there’s no adventure, right?” 46:29

1 Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.” 29:49

1 Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.” 42:36

1 John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.” 36:00

1 Andrew Middleton: “There’s something poetic about running a map store.” 50:09

1 Lionel Portier: “What I'm trying to convey with my maps is the pleasure of seeing beautiful things.” 28:33

1 Isaac Dushku: “A map has to evoke a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home.” 38:13

1 Sam Usle: “Slowly but surely we’re starting to recover the built environment.” 46:35

1 Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.” 33:37

1 Matthew Dean Shaffer: “My approach is to try and be as accurate as possible.“ 52:22

1 Jamshid Kooros: “These maps are based on walking, walking, walking.” 56:05

1 David Kulbeth: “It's taken so long to get everything just right because there's no guidebook to this.” 35:53

1 Sophie Parr: “I have to mathematically scale it, plan it, sketch it, draw it.” 32:00

1 Lee France: “It was fun to try to achieve those paper map elements in this new digital space.” 41:13

1 Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.” 49:32

1 Tom Patterson: “Right now is the golden age of cartography.” 1:12:22

1 Melinda Clarke & Deborah Young Monk: “The beauty of the whole project is that we had no idea what we were doing.” 1:23:32

1 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.” 52:34

1 Andrew Lynch: “I wish somebody else had done this, but I guess I'm gonna have to figure it out.” 1:13:31

1 Danielle Currie: “Zoom in buddy, it ain’t paint!” 20:17

1 Gabriel Camus: “That would be the dream, to make this city that never ends.” 40:28

1 Simon Polster: “I was hitchhiking from Iran to Berlin and spent quite a long time in the Caucasus.” 29:42

1 Kevin Sheehan: “There’s something good about using old ways of doing things.” 44:55

1 Jeff Clark: “Paper maps are dead, long live paper maps.” 51:41

1 Anthony Despalins: “I feel this energy when creating impossible landscapes, spaces, configurations.” 55:00

1 Grant Preller: “It started as a fun project and has turned into something I would definitely call a vocation.” 41:26

1 Aaron Taveras: “I would stare at topos for days on end and thought it’d be fun to make them myself.” 49:16

1 Jake Coolidge: “It’s a great way to learn a place, to try to map it well.” 1:09:53

1 Daniel Coe: “Science and art can make these really interesting images.” 41:50

1 Anton Thomas: “That mix of serious cartography and serious art; I love that.” 1:12:44

1 Nat Slaughter: “I seem to be drawn to maps that have a timeless quality.” 47:41

1 Jane Crosen: “I thought ‘Well, I’m going to do my own labels using calligraphy, and then I can be my own typesetting machine.’” 1:07:17

1 Jug Cerović: “The map is the reality; the infrastructure is entirely virtual.” 1:08:48

1 Jeff Murray: “The slogan within my work is ‘look closer.’” 1:06:27

1 Carl Churchill: “Immersing myself in thousands of high quality maps allowed me to develop a certain style.” 1:04:53

1 Elliot Park: “Why would you want to create a relief map you can’t touch?” 1:01:15

1 Kirsten Sparenborg: “I elaborate on the emotion of places when I make maps.” 1:01:35

1 Aurélien Boyer-Moraes: “The most important part is that the map goes to the public, it’s useful, and it’s used.” 1:07:09

1 Bill Marsh: “There’s something really useful about seeing the whole thing in one sweep, in great detail, all at once.” 1:09:53

1 Travis Folk: “Surely there are folks desirous of traditional cartography of a modern landscape.” 37:22

1 Alex McPhee: “I love watching over people’s shoulders as they interact with what I do.” 1:43:40

1 Kate Tarling: “When you’re stitching, you’re stitching footsteps into that landscape.” 25:08

1 Sara Drake: “My brain thinks in 3D rather than 2D.” 58:27

1 Mike Hall: “I keep returning to that mid-twentieth-century style.” 36:20

1 Anna Eshelman: “Where water carves; that’s fascinating to me.” 47:59

1 Alex Hotchin: “making a career out of drawing how beautiful the world can be” 18:23
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