Mapmaking for Flowers

I love a map.

This is the way we make a map, we scribble thoughts, we steal ideas, we try out fonts and scrunch them up, then beg for help from those who know, and finally when the map is done, it welcomes the reader into the book. Come hither, it cries, for I am a friendly guide into uncharted territories where you shall, perhaps, meet some of these oddlooking fellows.

 

Click here or above for a Flickr tour of the mapmaking process. You may scroll through, compare and contrast the stages, or simply press play.

My expert advisor was Rebecca Lea Williams, designer and artist, who not only has a brilliant eye for a map, a font, a peripheral detail, and was effortless in fixing my laborious scribblings. Thanks. I’d been a touch disappointed with the map for Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square. This is the map I wanted.