32 Imaginative And Beautifully Designed Maps

Maps reinvented artistically.

1. New York City Quilt by Haptic Lab

Source: hapticlab.com

2. Typographic World Map by Design Ahoy

Source: designahoy.com

3. Urban Carpet by Marcella Campa & Stefano Avesani

Carpets mapping different Hutong neighborhoods in Beijing, in the technique of Chinese communist propaganda fabrics.

Source: behance.net

4. Meat world map by Elvira Rajek

Source: elvirarajek.com

5. Hand-crafted street maps by Karen O’Leary

Source: etsy.com

6. “Made in America” cast iron skillets by FeLion Studios

Source: wcfoodies.tumblr.com  /  via: felionstudios.com

7. Mexico City paper sculpture map by Matthew Picton

Source: matthewpicton.com

8. Laser cut wood maps of underwater topography by Below the Boat

Source: belowtheboat.com

Source: belowtheboat.com

9. Blinking City by Marcella Campa & Stefano Avesani

Colorful stencils of Beijing’s rapidly transforming Hutong neighborhoods

Source: behance.net

Source: behance.net

10. Oslo Ceramic Coasters by Anders Hansen

Source: andershansen

11. Recycled computer world map by Susan Stockwell

Source: susanstockwell.co.uk  /  via: thisiscolossal.com

12. LOTR-style map of America by redditor Jvlivs

Source: reddit.com

13. Topographical Lego map of NYC by JR Schmidt

Source: cargocollective.com

14. Brooklyn map pillow by Melissa Corwin

Pillow maps of all five NYC boroughs are available in her Etsy shop.

Source: etsy.com

15. World coin map by Swedish design firm Bedow

Source: bedow.se

16. Another currency map, by redditor The310Investigator

Source: reddit.com

17. Papercut map of London by Famille Sumemrbelle

Source: famillesummerbelle.typepad.com

18. Screen printed papercut map of Paris by Famille Summerbelle

Source: famillesummerbelle.com

19. City tiles by Renata Rubim

Source: renatarubim.com.br  /  via: revestir2008.blogspot.com

20. United States bookshelf by Ron Arad

Source: ronarad.co.uk  /  via: porhomme.com

21. “Cartographies” by Jennifer Maravillas

Source: jenmaravillas.com  /  via: doubletakesblog.com

22. London Underground circuit radio map by Yuri Suzuki

Source: yurisuzuki.com  /  via: designboom.com

23. Typographic Chicago map by Axis Maps

Source: store.axismaps.com

24. Hong Kong Landcarpet by Florian Pucher

Source: florianpucher.com  /  via: behance.net

25. “Mapkins” by Soft Cities

Source: softcities.net

26. “The City Slipper” by Swims

Source: swims.com  /  via: design-milk.com

27. Munich by Lu Xinjian

Abstracted city map based on Google Earth

Source: xinjianlu.com

28. Chipped away world map by Jean Denant

Source: jeandenant.fr  /  via: designboom.com

29. London Underground string map by Dan Coffey

Source: fsmvpggru  /  via: dancoffey.co.uk

30. “World Trip” fish tank by Takuro Yamamoto

Source: designboom.com

31. Tundra quilt by Leah Evans

Source: leahevanstextiles.com

32. Real-time wind map by hint.fm

Source: hint.fm