It has been a long hiatus, but I am returning to this project! In fact, there were some developments back in October of 2015 that I'm now catching up on blogging.
Thanks to my previous presentation at NACIS 2013, I was able to team up with fellow NACIS-ites Matt Dooley and Jake Coolidge to curate a special exhibit of tangible maps as part of the annual NACIS map gallery.
The exhibit is now documented in an article in Cartographic Perspectives as well as a dedicated blog.
My bathymetric book was featured alongside several other works. The exhibited maps were linked to the concept of tangibility in a variety of ways. Some, like mine, were meant to be touched by the map user. Other mapmakers highlighted the importance of touch in their design development or their production process.
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One of my favorite pieces was Matt Dooley's beautiful "Ceramic," carved with a river network. One of these tiles now hangs on the wall in my home office!
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| Photo by Charles P. Rader |
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| Photo by Dylan Moriarty |
Megen Brittell, Amy Lobben, Megan Lawrence, and Manny Garcia's "Tactile Map Symbols across Three Media" was especially interesting. They conducted a study to compare materials for creating maps to be read by touch, like braille. I especially liked the microcapsule paper, which I had never encountered before. The m
icrocapsule paper is first printed with regular ink, then heat-treated to create raised areas wherever ink has been printed.
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| Microcapsule paper. Photo by Charles P. Rader |
The exhibit is documented in
an article in the journal Cartographic Perspectives as well as a blog at
http://tangiblemapexhibit.blogspot.com/
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| Photo by Dylan Moriarty |
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| Photo by Dylan Moriarty |
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