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Fuller (born 1980) is a British artist known for his intricate drawings and map art of cities and places that he explores. He drafts impressionistic "mind maps" of places where he has lived. [ 1 ] Fuller is the pen name of Gareth Fuller of London , England , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] who was previously known as Gareth Wood. [ 5 ]
Lordy Rodriguez (born 1976 in Quezon City, Philippines) is a contemporary artist who uses cartography and maps to reconfigure factual locations and create fictional assemblage pieces. Inspired by family road trips across the country, Rodriguez was influenced by the maps his family used to navigate the country. [1]
GPS drawing, also known as GPS art, is a method of drawing where an artist uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) device and follows a pre-planned route to create a large-scale picture or pattern. The .GPX data file recorded during the drawing process is then visualised, usually overlaying it as a line on a map of the area.
Bob drawing a campus map for Bradley University at the AEPi fraternity house. Robert Waldmire (April 19, 1945 – December 16, 2009) was an American artist and cartographer who is well known for his artwork of U.S. Route 66, including whimsical maps of the Mother Road and its human and natural ecology. [1]
James Niehues (born c. 1946) [1] is an American landscape artist and cartographer best known for painting ski trail maps for ski resorts. He has painted 255 maps for 175 ski resorts around the world. He has painted 255 maps for 175 ski resorts around the world.
After graduating, he worked as a freelance artist and graphic designer. [1] In 1934 he won a competition to produce a panoramic map of Grossglockner High Alpine Road, a newly opened mountain road, which led to commissions to paint landscapes for cartographic or tourism purposes. He married Ludmilla Herold in 1941.
In 1921 he showed three works at the first annual exhibition of the newly formed Society of Graphic Art. [citation needed] He was the designer of the standard upper-case lettering used on headstones and war memorials by the Imperial War Graves Commission. [6] But it is perhaps his illustrated maps for which he is most well known.
After the Six-Day War in June 1967 the artist began to collect newspaper covers featuring maps of war zones. [15] He then asked his wife to embroider the shapes from the June 1967 map. [ 16 ] He pondered the idea of the first large-scale Mappa during his second voyage to Afghanistan in 1971, [ 17 ] resulting in a series of woven world maps ...