I love maps. I’m still working on why, but I am sure about the love. This one is called “Hope in a world of trouble.”
Over at Strange Maps, one of my favorite blogs (how about a daily dose of cartogram? or a diagram of the Eisenhower Interstate system?), there is a short piece on Francesca Berrini, an artist based in Portland. (You can read her bio here. You can also buy her awesome and inexpensive greeting cards here.) She uses pieces of old maps to create new maps of imaginary places.
The following description of her work appears on her website. It is really fascinating:
You can contact the author by sending an email to Marisa [at] mp285.com, and you can learn more about $3.60 (okay, not really, but it’s something!) by clicking 
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