Tag: hand-drawn maps
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Mapping Emotion in Seattle: Sad Bellevue
I used to live in Downtown Bellevue, and I hated it. It felt like someone took the corporate soullessness of South Lake Union and somehow made it less walkable (hence why I exaggerated the width of the streets in this map). So when I decided to make a map inspired by sadness, Bellevue was the…
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Mapping Emotion in Seattle: Nostalgic Ballard
Continuing my series of emotion-inspired maps of Seattle, I chose nostalgia for this piece centered on Ballard, a neighborhood I associate with some of my favorite memories. Ballard has an old-school charm to it: old brick, quiet tree-lined streets, flickering signs. I wanted the map to capture that hazy, bittersweet feeling of looking back at…
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Mapping Emotion in Seattle: Angry Green Lake
Maps are usually neutral, built to inform rather than to feel. This was my first piece in a series of emotion-inspired maps of Seattle, an experiment in expressing feelings through cartography. I chose anger for this one because Green Lake reminds me of the time I was so mad after being rejected by my crush…
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Washington State Ferries in Seattle: A Hand-painted Map Inspired by Rainy Days
Inspired by Bob Ross and the urban sketching movement, I started painting during the pandemic. Somehow, it took me five years to realize I could paint maps too! I’d been experimenting with data from the State of Washington’s Geospatial Open Data Portal, trying to build a 3D map of Seattle’s ferry network in Blender. After…