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Produced from an interest in historic maps and data vizualizations, comes this series of interviews looking at the work of the past, practices of today and the potentials of the future. An ongoing conversation on the frontiers of understanding and approaches to their exploration.

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Thomas Mikkelsen - Early mapping of Silicon Valley [19]

May 28, 2025 11m

With an endless love of creating, Mikkelsen set out to make a map of Silicon Valley that raised the standard and breathed new life into the industry. He had a lifetime of experience working around…

William B. Hogan - A New Jerseyian's View Of The World [18]

Feb 08, 2025 4m

Inspired after he saw The New Yorker magazine cover by Saul Steinberg, [artist William Hogan](https://www.williambhogan.com), in a humorous moment, decided to quickly make his own Steinberg…

Francis J. Pierson - Denver's Own Mapmaker [17]

Mar 18, 2024 22m

He was the founder Pierson Graphics, a long-time cartographic publisher for Denver and the front range, that had a well established reputation for quality and dependability. This interview follows…

Pham Bach Phi - From Vietnam to Silicon Valley [16]

Jun 20, 2023 19m

An amazing story of a promising architecture student who loses everything as war sweeps across his country, and restarts life in America, just as the new tech region of Silicon Valley begins to grow.…

Terry Guyer - The Next Stage of Silicon Valley - Mapping Biotech [15]

May 24, 2022 31m

Out of the dynamic growth of Silicon Valley came a new field of Biotech that would begin to outpace its technical field of origin. Even as people speak of the end of Moore's law and the slowing of…

Frank Romo - The Big View of Mapping Now [14]

Mar 08, 2021 31m

From a lifetime of practical experience in community work, wrestling with the structures that form and direct peoples, Frank Romo (https://www.romogis.com/)has had an expanding perspective on the…

Saving the Everett Henrys, The Rich Foley Story [13]

Dec 10, 2020 20m

A young employee at the Harris Seybold printing company always loved those framed painting of classic books. They hung in the offices, those original paintings, and were mostly done by artist and…

Kirby Scudder - A Unique View for Regions [12]

Jun 23, 2020 21m

Drawing on a whimsical approach to depicting areas, Kirby Scudder has tapped into a greater depth and continues the tradition of the American Birds Eye View map. Here we chat with him about his early…

The Kroll Map Co. - A Passion for Place [11]

May 04, 2020 33m

With its roots back to the 1870's the Kroll Map Company has been a regional mapmaker that adapted and grew, just like its home town of Seattle. Here, we get to speak with John Loacker, the third…

Frank Ordaz - That Transcendent Moment [10]

Apr 21, 2020 34m

While you might know him for a series of maps that looked at Sports history from Baseball, Football, Golf, and more. You really know, and believe his work from movies such as 'Return of the Jedi',…

James Niehues - 'The Man Behind The Maps' [9]

Dec 18, 2019 24m

He is your visual guide to understanding the slopes, and his work has taken him around the globe. Here an interview with James Niehues about his history, his process and how to capture the drama of a…

Corbin Hillam - His Early Silicon Valley Map [8]

Jun 19, 2019 19m

He was a artist and illustrator active in the Bay Area as the Silicon Valley phenomena began to bloom, and his map may be one of the first to document it. A discussion with Corbin Hillam about his…

Emek Conveying the Intangible [7]

Apr 22, 2019 21m

An old quote claims that 'Writing about music is like dancing about architecture'... in other words some things don't translate. But one artist with a unique process and history has found a work…

Maximilian Noichl - Making Data Driven Beauty [6]

Mar 04, 2019 26m

The making of data driven beauty. Maximilian Noichl centers in the world of philosophy, and with an elegant aesthetic he draws on influences like Japanese artist Numata Kashu. The end result is a…

Robert Williams - The Heathen In Arts Hallowed Ground [5]

Dec 24, 2018 16m

He's the renegade artist that has lived life on his own terms and made art free of sophistication and pretense, but packed with life and 'low brow' ethos. Part of the group that founded Zap Comics in…

The Daughter & Son of the Discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh [4]

Sep 14, 2018 24m

An interview with the Daughter & Son of Clyde W. Tombaugh, the discoverer of planet Pluto. Annette and Alden Tombaugh discuss their father's life, discoveries, his curiosity and patient…

Dr. Marius Bauza Human GPS - Navigation and the Hippocampus [3]

Jul 09, 2018 27m

Within the last several decades, great leaps of understanding have occurred around how humans navigate their environment and what mechanisms in the brain allow this elegant understanding. This…

Timothy Edward Downs - Mapping the Internet [2]

Jan 31, 2018 26m

In what may be the first depiction of the newly developing invisible world of the internet, Timothy Downs made images to help people explore and navigate the new digital frontiers. In the early…

Maryanne Hoburg - The Woman Who Mapped Silicon Valley [1]

Jan 08, 2018 34m

She was the first to make a map of the complex eco-system of businesses that would become the garden of Eden for the Internet age, Silicon Valley. At the time she described the energy of the south…

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