Explore the Urban Canvas: Your Art Map Guide

After the analog Urban Art Guide Vienna, the All City Street Art App, the Geo Street Art iPhone App and the Adidas Urban Art Guide, now also Buenos Aires got its first street art map! Street Art Map is a project dedicated to gathering, locating and preserving the street art movement in Argentina through photographs. Similar to all the other apps and websites, also the Street Art Map Argentina covers just a limited area. Providing a interactive (Google) map as usual, the project allows volunteers to submit their own photos. ...

I have a foible for maps in general - you should know that since I posted about the map cuts by Karen O’Leary or the worldwide subway map source - for what reason I was delighted when I recently found the transamerican map artworks by Matthew Cusick. Matthew creates mainly portraits by cutting and pasting together snippets of physical maps! The results look just great and I’m really wondering how many maps he already utilized… ...

subway networks Subway Systems | Did you know that our planet has now 178 metro systems including 84 metros and 21 subways, and that the rest has other official names, such as MRT, Metrorail, or U-Bahn? Or that trains on 34 circle lines are orbiting through 27 cities, 33 systems run on the left track, 113 on the right and that 33 cities have driverless lines? These and much more interesting facts as well as all the original schematic rail network maps, logos, news, statistics and a lot more about Metro, Subway, MRT, Rapid Transit, U-Bahn, Metrorail or whatever you like to call it, can be found on metrobits.org, a brilliant source for info about all subways around the globe! ...

Maybe you realized in some previous articles, that I’m not really a fan of Apple and for that reason it’s not my intention to promote new Apple products or something like that… Nevertheless, I would like inform the Apple users who certainly are under my readership - No, you don’t have to out yourself! - that there’s in addition to that urban art guide app, which is available in Berlin and Hamburg, another new street art app for the iPhone. The name of that new street art guide is “All City” and its aim is to collect and present interesting street art spot around the world… ...

I love artworks, which are influenced by maps or the city itself. For this reason, I already wrote some articles about this part of contemporary art - remind the Manhattan Skyline Drawing by Stephen Wiltshire or the fantastic typographic lino-cut by Mark Andrew Webber. Today I will present another great example: Whether New York, Paris or London, American artist Karen O’Leary’s map cuts are amazing! She hand-cuts parts of original maps into paper and reveals in this way the paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets of some of the greatest cities in the world. ...

About four months has Mark Andrew Webber spent to design his new artwork and the past two months he carves it: An enormous linocut map of Paris! But that’s not the highlight! The whole map is a typographic interpretation of the French street and building names. With its 1.8 metres across, it’s an fantastic artwork! “With this Paris map, I’ve tried my hardest to make it accurate, but I’m not a French speaker so it’s bloody hard. It’s just a lot of checking and I’d rather like the pieces to not have to be chopped up, as that kind of ruins it.” (Mark A. Webber) ...