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How to make hand-drawn maps : a creative guide with tips, tricks, and projects / Helen Cann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781452169910
  • 1452169918
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Brief history of maps -- Map anatomy -- Types of map -- Maps of places -- Maps of ideas -- Projects.
Summary: With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platform-game maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected here will satisfy first-time cartographers as well as veteran mapmakers inspired by the popular map art trend"--Amazon.com.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 912 C224 Available 33111010896591
Total holds: 0

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With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platformgame maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected here will satisfy first-time cartographers as well as veteran mapmakers inspired by the popular map art trend.

Brief history of maps -- Map anatomy -- Types of map -- Maps of places -- Maps of ideas -- Projects.

With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platform-game maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected here will satisfy first-time cartographers as well as veteran mapmakers inspired by the popular map art trend"--Amazon.com.

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