Tobias Goldschalt's Triangular Map
Traveling is always (of course) at the top of our list of New Year's resolutions. And although sometimes there are destinations that resist us, we suggest that you be the one to get a little closer to them by filling walls with maps of places you want to go and others that you may have already visited, but want to save in the memory. Here are our proposals for traveling illustrators.
Anna Simmons
His maps are a combination of many elements. "I love to draw and put together architectural aspects, calligraphy, symbols, textures and tiny people walking around. Another thing that fascinates me is that only half of the design is in my hands, because the other is marked by the geography of each place ". Among his favorites, Rio de Janeiro for its color and its contrasts. And although his city is Liverpool It's still on your to-do list.
Rio de Janeiro, the painted paradise of Anna Simmons
LAURA HALLETT
She's in love with Bristol, where she resides, but she admits to us that she never minds getting lost in London or among the landscape and architecture of cities like **Edinburgh or Paris**. She normally works illustrating maps for some magazine articles, but she also draws on her own initiative the places that she likes the most. She does it with watercolor or ink and what fascinates her the most is " discover curiosities about the places and people that are in each part of the world ".
With watercolor or ink and always discovering the essence of the place
LIZ KAY
She is passionate about travel and that allows her to discover many places and interesting aspects of points that she already knew. And although clients usually provide her with a list of places to draw, she also does her own research to have, for example, the map of cocktail bars in Paris, restaurants in Sydney or a visitors guide for your own region, West Yorkshire.
The cocktail map of Paris
URSULA HITZ
Her maps are full of words: Includes neighborhoods and neighbourhoods, but also places of special interest in each place . And although she started drawing in a corner of the kitchen with her sisters in her house in Switzerland, she moved to London more than a decade ago to dedicate herself to it professionally.
London word map
ALEX FOSTER
"One of the best things about maps - this British man tells us - is that they not only serve to have nice impressions of cities and regions, but they can also be very useful for drawing routes or even making a illustrated site guide like amusement parks, for example". In her online store you can find those of Rome either New York her, although she admits that she loves rural areas and that among her favorite trips is a route through Iceland or a recent weekend in Bruges with friends.
The Roald Dahl Map by Alex Foster
livi gosling
As she happens with other illustrators, one of the moments that Livi enjoys the most is the research prior to drawing: discovering the types of food that are in each place, and the restaurants and dishes that one cannot miss. The result – she tells us her-" it is not a geographically exact outline, but a general impression of the place and an artistic vision of the area So far, her favorite is New York, although she already has her next project in mind: Copenhagen .
Stockholm by Livi Gosling
JOSEPHINE SKAPARE
She drew as a child but then she abandoned it, until she decided 8 years ago recover her passion and study graphic design . In her maps are the points of special interest, but she also tries to tell a story and leave a mark of her experience in the places she visits. She thus presents, for example, her vegan route map through New York (one of her favorite cities, by the way) although she is still in love with her Stockholm despite the cold – she tells us – that they have in winter.
Vegan New York by Josephine Skapare
AWESOME MAPS
Behind this page there is a team of designers, illustrators and also explorers who travel and try to show the world in a different way. Among his portfolio of names is, for example, Eva Dietrich , an illustrator and graphic designer from hamburg that she has yoga among her passions and that with it she has created a whole map of the different modalities of this discipline that exist throughout the planet, in addition to the festivals and the essentials to plan our next trip.
Yoga in the world, by Eva Dietrich
Another one that we find on this page is also German Tobias Goldschalt , which in this case has designed the planet as triangles of different sizes and colors.
We hope that among so many cities you have found your destiny. On platforms like Etsy or **Pinterest** you'll find a few more designers. You no longer have an excuse to start fulfilling your purposes. Happy journey!
Tobias Goldschalt's Triangular Map