Map Booklets Redux

If you missed out on the first version of the map booklets, here is version 2.0:



The pages in these are again from discarded topographic maps, mixed this time with patterned paper. The covers are printed on duplex paper, with one side cyan blue, and the other chocolate brown. You can choose which color you'd like to have on the outside.

Available here.

Something New From Something Old

I often make the things you see here for a particular person in my life. This one is tailor-made for my dad. If you've ever met him, you know he's crazy for anything map-related. Last Christmas, he creatively wrapped our gifts in outdated, discarded topographic maps. I couldn't bear the thought of them being thrown away afterward, so I decided to make little booklets out some of them. The booklets are pocket-sized, and some are available with a sparkly yellow cover, some with a sparkly blue one. (Again, I couldn't decide which color I liked best.) The pages are made from the maps and some found blank notebook paper and graph paper. My favorite part is how the baker's twine echoes the red and white striped highway symbol on some of the maps:



All the maps were different, so no two booklets are alike. They are available here — enjoy! (And Dad, yours is on its way...)

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Update, August 2009 – these are all gone now. I won't be able to make any more of these, but will be making another map-type journal sometime soon.

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Update, April 2010 – here is version 2.0 of the map booklets!