Maps – Page 8 – Green Chair Press Blog

Marking Time Exhibit

My friend Sharon & I went to the Guild of Bookworkers traveling member exhibit, Marking Time, at the SF Main Library the other day. As we walked into the library, Sharon said “I’ve looked at the exhibit online, will it be any better in person?” The answer was decidedly mixed.
One of the books that hardly got a notice online mesmerized me in the case — Andrew Huot’s Walks with Rosie. What he says about it:

This book chronicles two weeks of daily walks with my dog in our Philadelphia neighborhood, marking the routes and occurrences on the way. The city is reduced to line, shape, and color, and transparent papers reveal the echoes of yesterday and an allusion to tomorrow.

The maps seem bigger in person, and the transparency made me pause and think about my own daily perambulations around town and my neighborhood. You can see more detailed images here or visit Huot’s website for more of his bookworks.

Google Map Alphabet

Below are 2 letters from Rachel Young’s Alphabet, found using Google maps. You can see all of them here.

More Alphabets

My alphabet print got a mention on Apartment Therapy this week. Among the ones they show, I especially like Alphabet, below left, by Gregory of Beauchamping. Take a look to see what he’s put in the caption… Once at his Etsy shop, I found the one on the right, called States United. He’s got a nice little story with each of his prints, too.

Heart poster

Ork Posters, the people who do the city neighborhood posters, have branched out a bit with this new map-like poster “Gotta Have Heart.” See it here. I like it in black & tan, but it comes in color (red, pink, orange) too.

Map shelf

Artist Ron Arad is mostly known for designing chairs, but for an exhibit this month at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in the UK he’s designed this steel bookshelf. According to this website it’s mysteriously called “Oh, the farmer & the cowman should be friends” (a line from a song from the musical Oklahoma). To give you an idea of the scale, it’s about 11-1/2 feet tall by about 19 feet wide (138-3/8 x 224-5/8 x 15-7/8″ or 351 x 570 x 40 cm).

Oh, the farmer & the cowman should be friends by Ron Arad

Free For All

The Fiji Island Mermaid Press is hosting an online exhibition of artist’s books that visitors can download, print, trim, fold and cut to make miniature books. To the left is seed toss, trench sent by Warren Craghead III.
And after you take a look, you’d be correct in assuming my delight in finding Adele Henderson’s downloadable Travel Map of TONAWANDA New York, about emissions from a nearby Tonawanda Coke plant.