Paper Cities

I'm not sure what came first—my interest in illustrating cities that I've been to, or my interest in how other illustrators have drawn cities that I've been to. Either way, I fell in love with the 19th century "urban panoramic bird's eye view" genre in the early 2010s, and since then I've been charmed any kind of image that attempts to capture our impossibly complex urban landscapes. Find below a few of my favourite illustrated maps that exist in the public domain, which I've retouched and am making available to you via the studio's in-house printer.