Feature: Destination maps, posters and art prints

Ever since I was young, I’ve been fascinated with maps, for what I can only understand now as the inherent drive to wander and experience the world. I always knew I wanted to travel. Maybe I simply payed a little more attention in geography class, or something about the open road called to me. I don’t know. But I love looking at old maps, seeing what people from the past thought our world looked like, and how different our perception is, to me, the most fascinating part of that appreciation.
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So, with that in mind, I’d like to segue into the feature at hand… A couple of weeks ago, just in time for football season, the fine people at Modern Map Art asked if I would feature one of their posters and talk about the quality of their work. Prior to them reaching out, I had not thought to put a map of my hometown of Columbus, Ohio up on my office wall, but I thought, why not? From initial search on their site, they have a wide range of city maps, with less country maps, but overall an interesting approach to traditional maps, which is what caught my eye.

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The Columbus map arrived days later, safe in a hard tube, with the poster wrapped in a thin tissue paper. I popped open the tube and unwrapped the poster to find that it was indeed a fine quality print, sized at 24x36. Their scarlet and grey color option is perfect for any and all Buckeyes fans. The quality of the paper was much better, much thicker than most mass-produced posters that you might find at a department store or head shop, and the design came out crisp, in focus, and with rich color.

Overall, I came away impressed. Now, I’ll have to check out one of their pillow maps.