Last week marked Esri’s annual User Conference in San Diego, and what a conference it was! It’s always fun to see geospatial friends and meet… Read More »Reimagining the John Snow Cholera Map with Animation
By the time I publish this, I will have just finished presenting at the 40th annual North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference. NACIS is… Read More »A Glimpse of the USPS Landscape with Maps
About the BellTopo Sans Font I designed the BellTopo Sans font, originally inspired by the typefaces on the antique U.S.G.S. maps of the late 1800s… Read More »The Font is Ready! BellTopo Sans Fonts Design Complete
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… Read More »Video is up! Colored Pencil Hillshade
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… Read More »Adobe MAX 2019: Mapping
Last year I shared my technique for drawing hillshade with graphite (pencil). Since then, I have explored a few different methods for drawing color hillshade.… Read More »Drawing Color Hillshade: A tutorial (with time lapse videos)