Nat Slaughter: “I seem to be drawn to maps that have a timeless quality.”

Very Expensive Maps

Cupertino cartographer, designer and artist Nat Slaughter on using hardcore wildlife survey techniques to count squirrels with Jamie Allen, putting sound installations in shipping containers, the two years of shoe-leather data collection that went into his 5x2’ Central Park map, his desire to walk from Basel to the North Sea, how a one-hour deadline can have (occasionally) sublime results, and an 800-year-old map that feels like it was created yesterday. See Nat’s work at thesquirrelcensus.com

• Central Park map: terrestrial
• Central Park map: celestial
• Squirrel Census 2012
• Squirrel Census 2016
• Squirrel Census 2019

• George Colbert and Guenther Vollath’s map of Prospect Park
• Vaux & Olmstead’s Central Park map
• Egbert Viele’s Manhattan maps
• Otto Sibeth’s Central Park map
• John Cage
• Iannis Xenakis
• Nat’s made-in-45-minutes map
• Eleanor Lutz
• Yu Ji Tu: 1137 map of China
• Grilli Type
• Klim Type
• Peutinger Table: map of Roman roads from 1200
• Nina Bender
• Catalogtree
• Rudolf Leuzinger
• Joost Grootens
• Irene Stracuzzi
• Anna van Westerstee Beek
• Charles Minard
• Eleanor Lutz
• Eduard Imhof
• Zürcher Verkehrsverbund transit maps
• AJ Ashton
• IGN
• Japanese Coast Guard

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