Friday Eye Candy

Fans of public transit rejoice. A new infographic explores the rolling stock of most of the major cities in the United States and Canada.

August 18, 2017 - CityLab

The Project NYC Subway is a transit and map lover's dream. The newest update to the project take the concept a step further.

August 11, 2017 - CityLab

There are surprisingly few maps of ancient Roman roads, and many fewer maps of ancient Roman roads that resemble big-city subway maps. An intrepid student has improved upon that situation, however.

June 9, 2017 - CityLab

The new book "Detroit: The Dream Is Now" tells a story of revitalization and ambition, in the same city where far too many "ruin porn" photographers have tread.

May 5, 2017 - Detroit Free Press

What a difference a wet winter makes.

April 14, 2017 - KQED

Choosing cartography as a career is a natural result of a lifelong love of maps. National Geographic gathers the proof.

February 24, 2017 - National Geographic

An exemplary display of Minecraft prowess.

February 17, 2017 - Chicago Tribune

Fans of Disney theme parks and fans of Star Wars had a big week.

February 10, 2017 - The Architect's Newspaper

Stylized maps of bike routes, similar to the example set my London transit maps. This is the best kind of mashup.

February 3, 2017 - CityLab

Street networks and city blocks, reduced to their fundamental attributes, reveal the vast differences between cities.

January 27, 2017 - Geoff Boeing

New York's lack of sunlight might be overstated, but the New York Times mapped the shadows cast by every building on every block of the city just to be sure.

December 23, 2016 - The New York Times

The Google Timelapse feature has been updated. The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes.

December 9, 2016 - The Verge

Herwig Scherabon is a graphic designer featured this week in The Guardian.

December 2, 2016 - The Guardian

A modded version of Cities: Skylines and 200-250 hours are all it takes to make a 1:1 digital representation of the city of San Francisco.

November 4, 2016 - CityLab

A survey of the long history of poetry connected of the urban experience—from the 18th century to the Beat poets of the 20th century and the Hip Hop artists of today.

October 7, 2016 - The Guardian

Take a look at these creative crosswalks and add your own examples.

July 15, 2016 - The Guardian Cities

The "Raining Poetry" art installation hides poetry in plain sight—the words of poets like Langston Hughes are stenciled on sidewalks around Boston and only revealed when water is added.

May 20, 2016 - The Boston Globe

Anyone who has traveled long country roads is familiar with the moment when a road makes a sharp turn to deviate from a direct path. Such "grid corrections" provide the subject for a photography project by Gerco de Ruijter.

April 22, 2016 - BLDGBLG

Chatty Maps break down the sound profile of cities.

April 8, 2016 - Digital Trends

Dallas is a subject in a visual experiment titled "A City is a Poem."

February 26, 2016 - The Dallas Morning News