Blog Bucket: Maps As Art

For this first blog bucket I picked mapping as an art. When I went looking for this online there were several different types of examples that were readily available. These were things such as turning maps themselves into pieces of art, I also think that old, hand drawn maps are works of art in themselves, and the most interesting one I found was tattoos of maps. Since I think tattoos are an art form in themselves then to add the art of maps into it is really interesting. The two pictures are great examples of this. One is actually the a map of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated system. The one at the top of the post is more like a traditional hand drawn map from well before the 1800s. I just thought this was really cool and have never seen/heard of people doing this before.