This week I was forced to take a break from cartography work so I could recover from a finger surgery. I've wanted to update my portfolio for years, but someone else's project always took priority. It has been quite some time since I have taken a step back and looked at all the maps I've made over the past 17 years since I started freelancing!
Thanks to all of my clients over the years, whether I was found online through my website, referred by a past client, or discovered by seeing one of my maps. It's hard to believe, but my maps have been in almost 500 books!
Besides my continued work for scholarly authors and university presses, I've been doing quite a bit of work for Purple Lizard Maps (https://www.purplelizard.com/). I find it energizing to bounce back and forth between maps of a time hundreds of years ago, of a place thousands of miles away, to maps of hiking trails I can drive to on a sunny Saturday. Both teach me about the world around me and give me a new perspective. I'm also an editor for Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design (https://atlasofdesign.org/) which will be ready Fall of 2024 - I'll make a new post when that is ready to pre-order!