Talking of maps, if you don't happen to have the latest Eye, you should probably get yourself a copy. I don't subscribe. But, casually leafing through Sam's, it occurred to me that I must have one. So I nicked his. Sorry Sam; it's mine now.
The cover is the cat's meow. A beautiful reproduction of one of Joost Grootens stunning maps for the Atlas of the New Dutch Water Defence Line. For the main article John L Walters (interestingly, a founding member of 80s "Einstein A Go-go" performers Landscape) talks to Grootens about his unique approach to mappery.
Eye have generously illustrated the piece with numerous examples of Grootens work but you can get a feel for his atlas's physicality from this video.
And if that wasn't a good enough reasons to buy a copy (and trust me, it is) there's also a fantastic article on David Gentleman. It's also where we found the font we're using for the "The Zimbabwean" part of the masthead.
Flipped through this edition today. A very good one, even by their usually high standards. Such a shame it costs fifty bucks. Going to have to go to the library for this one.
Posted by: Daniel Neville | 15 March 2011 at 08:41 AM