I have nothing against digital art, but I seem to gravitate toward the fantastical charm of traditional art more. Music and art go together like peanut butter and jelly, a perfect sandwich of awesome, this post attempts to prove exactly that. Album covers are extremely expressive and convey the theme of the overall music in the album in a beautiful creative way. I don’t know about you, but when I buy a music cd (whether online or in the store), I am always intrigued by the cover art. Fewer customers are actually buying physical CDs or LPs nowadays, which is yet another unfair hit on the art scene and artists. You can see a much larger version of the map (and other similarly styled maps ) on the As the Crow Flies cARTography web site here.Album cover arts somehow lost their importance in the wake of what I like to call ‘the virtual revolution’. If only more ‘real’ maps were this well drafted! It’s a well produced map in its own right regardless of the reality or not of the subject matter. We immediately feel empathy with the place and can easily imagine it to be real. That helps us immediately understand something of the shape, form and patterns before our eyes. It’s simplicity helps it not be overly detailed but it resonates because it’s comprised of elements of real maps that we immediately recognise. This is as well crafted a fantasy map as you’ll find. The names follow the theme: Messypotamia, Strawberry River Flow, Beaches and Cream and Rocky Road and there’s even a unique coordinate system comprising longitude and splatitude.There’s even a cherry on top of both the island (which appears to be the inverted cone of the upturned ice cream island) and the north arrow, the slopes mimic a slowly melting sauce and the description both balances the map layout and adds conviction to the story. It has an antique burnish to the paper to give it age (and authenticity) and the detail is drawn in a semi-realistic hand-drawn style so we get the feel of swampy areas and forests as well as more geometric depictions of settlement and transportation. There’s a nod to an antique style with raked coastal vignettes, ornate hand-written letter forms and old school hachuring technique on the slopes. What a fantastic approach! But it’s the map that really takes this fantastical place to another level. The map was to be printed on the inside of the unfolded cover – the wrapper to the ice cream sandwich. The novel itself was to be encased in covers that made it appear as if an ice cream sandwich (chocolate covers with vanilla pages).
#FANTASTICAL SANDWICH DRAWING SERIES#
It’s this last example that demonstrates that really, the fertile imagination innate in us all is often the start of something rather special in map terms.Īs the Crow Flies cARTography drew Ice Cream Island to accompany a children’s novel series about a fantasy island of ice cream. Cartography extends from reference mapping through to single theme maps, from national map series to a kid drawing his or her classroom and from a cartography student creating their first web map to a boy scout drawing out their imaginary worlds. But yet people still find additional themes, objects and thoughts that give them something to make a map from.
Is there anything that cannot be mapped? Think about it…the entire world is our mappable object at every conceivable scale from planetary to the atomic.
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