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The artist Katherine Baxter<\/a>, who specialises in hand-drawn isometric generalised maps, particular of cities, has a solo exhibition “Mapmaker”, at the Coninsgby Gallery in Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia. The gallery is open from 9-6pm from Monday to Friday, and the exhibition is showing<\/a> until 25 July. <\/p>\n

We’ve featured one of Katherine’s maps before – this map of the London 2012 Olympic venues<\/a> which was a commission for LondonTown. <\/p>\n

Katherine’s illustration style is not just limited to maps – in fact her first commision was for a children’s book – but the geometric style lends itself well to creating information-rich graphics such as maps.<\/p>\n

See also this impressive video of the creation of a map of the procession for the Royal Wedding of 2011 (the finished work is below), it is three days of hand-drawing a map condensed to just three minutes. It makes you realise just how many strokes of the artist’s pen are needed to create an artwork\/map of this detail and intricacy:<\/p>\n