It all started with a wedding gift. Gabe Smedresman was late in buying a present for two Yale classmates and finally decided to build a woodcut map of the campus. The map, which illustrated the ...

Want to add beauty and sophistication to your wall, and channel your inner Magellan? We’ve got you covered. Woodcut Maps is a Bay Area start up specializing in handcrafted wood inlay maps that are ...

If the idea of wooden art calls to mind whittled bears from tree stumps or a Ron Swanson-crafted harp, think again. Emma Fried-Cassorla, the brains behind Philly Love Notes (and ThinkFest speaker!), ...

Maps can be beautiful things, that bring back memories, remind you of journeys, or just make you glad you live where you do. A company called Woodcut Maps now lets you preserve a Google Maps image in ...

Find a second edition of the first woodcut map of the world, dated 1486, in this unusual collection of cartography. Another woodcut from 1778 Japan shows Dutch and Chinese trade ships and factories in ...

17 3/8" x 11 1/2" 27" x 21 1/8" ...

News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer ...

What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sure—but let’s play along. Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps.

Below left: The exhibition includes this version of a 1541 woodcut map by German geographer Martin Waldseemüller taken from Ptolemy's "Geographia." It shows the southern tip of Africa, along with ...