Here’s a really quick post to announce some updates to the BellTopo Sans font! I have added Bold, italic, and bold italics to the styles of this font. These three styles are not yet complete – there is a tiny bit of kerning left to do. Now you might be asking yourselves: Why release them
The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) holds a marvelous annual conference, and this year’s was in Tacoma, Washington just 90 minutes down the road from my house. I gave a talk on the techniques I use to draw mountain topography with colored pencils. The first few minutes give a little background of my PNW
By the time you are reading this, my colleague John Nelson and I will have presented to a bunch of fantastic creatives at Adobe MAX 2019 about making maps as designers. Designers make gorgeous maps, because oftentimes they don’t confine themselves to super strict ideas of what a map should look like. Plus, well… they’re
Making maps is fun. As a cartographer, I’m biased to feel this way. Still, when I tell people that map-making is my career, a lot of people respond with “I love maps!” so I am not alone in realizing maps’ awesomeness. At the upcoming Adobe MAX 2019 conference I will be presenting alongside my colleague
It is October 2019, and time to begin a new website. You’re here when this page is brand new! Super fresh (‘fresh’ sounds more exciting than under development’). I’m excited about it. Next week, I will be posting a tutorial for steps to draw hand-drawn hillshade maps with colored pencils, and I wanted to get
Saying goodbye to my friend and mentor: “Whatever Thing You Are, Be That!”
The cartography world lost a wonderful human yesterday. Clint Loveman, a man who led the mapping team of which I am lucky to be a part, passed yesterday. He built a diverse, fun, and excellent development team. Together with them, I mourn. To be honest, I’m trying to do right by Clint in what I
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