Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Map Making, Imagination, and Travel

Author(s): Jill K. Berry

Design

Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Art Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds. Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on creative experiences. Map Art Lab is the perfect book for map lovers, creative/DIY-inspired, designers. Artists of all ages and experience levels can use this book to explore enjoyable and engaging exercises. Everyone loves maps. And what's not to love? They are beautiful and fascinating, they teach you things, they show you where you are, places you long to go, and places you dare to imagine.


Product Information

JILL K. BERRY, author of Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media, teaching scheduled for Art & Soul Portland, Valley Ridge Art Studio, San Diego Book Arts, Tucson Paperworks, Petaluma and Eureka Art Centers, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Virginia Beach and Taos. Jill's first book with NorthLight has sold over 10K copies in the first year. LINDEN MCNEILLY (Jill's sister) Public school teacher 25 years, designing curriculum for children and adults in math, science, geography, reading, writing and art. MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, BA in UC Santa Cruz. Works in progress: three young adult novels.

General Fields

  • : 9781592539055
  • : Quarry Books
  • : Quarry Books
  • : 0.454
  • : April 2014
  • : 222mm X 222mm
  • : United States
  • : May 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jill K. Berry
  • : Paperback
  • : 116
  • : en
  • : 526
  • : 144
  • : illustrations (colour)