mapHead

I'm a cartographer and a Quaker. I think the two are related, and the common threads seem to be a regular theme here. This blog started out exploring what it means to make maps—the ontology of cartography. Then I spent some serious time working on issues surrounding theological diversity among Quakers. Lately it's become even more freeform, though I'm still interested in both these areas.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Imagining the World

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Thinking of world maps as exercises in imagination is like placing yourself in a universe before Galileo and Copernicus, where the sun went ...

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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Graphic designers and cartographers are grinding their teeth

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jbkrygier’s comment got me thinking about the gap between map perception and creation. It’s not a problem maps alone have — remember the cla...

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Cartography=maps? nyet.

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The core problem with almost any conversation about maps and what they are is that there are multiple sets meanings for the word, which, whi...

Friday, January 5, 2007

Maps maps maps

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I make maps for a living. I get up in the morning, go to work, sit down at my desk and make maps, or do back-end work for making maps, or ed...

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natcase: Minneapolis, MN, United States; In May of 2013, my wife Ingrid and I formed INCase, LLC to support our professional work of writing and design, and I left Hedberg Maps after 22 years as head of production. In my non-professional life I am a member of Twin Cities Friends Meeting and Laughing Waters Preparative Meeting, and Ramsey's Braggarts morris dance team, and organize sings at Merlins Rest pub in Minneapolis.

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