Iberian Map Decor

Apartment Therapy offers 10 Unconventional Map Decor Ideas. Great decorating ideas for any cartophile.

In honor of the big World Cup win, here are two with an Iberian flavor...


First this lamp shade made from a tourist map of Barcelona. The creator, Chez Larsson offers some comments on his creation on his Flickr page.


Next is a coffee table decorated with a portion of a large Portugal and Spain road map.

The creator, "marajane01", offers step by step instructions (however images appear to be missing...)



HT to Carto-Niece, Faith!

Power Grid - Brazil/Spain & Portugal

One of my favorite board games of all-time, Power Grid, has come out with a new expansion map: Brazil/Spain & Portugal.

Ms. Cartophiliac, with her interest in Spain, and the Spanish language will also be pleased.

Buy Power Grid at your favorite local game store, or online at Funagain Games.

Other Power Grid expansion maps:

Italy/France

China/Korea

Benelux/Central Europe

Visualizing Empires' Decline

As an experiment in information art, Pedro M. Cruz has created video representation of the evolution of the top four empires in decline during the 19th and 20th centuries; the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese:

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.

More info on how he did it.

Via Coming Anarchy

Map Plates

Feast on this:



Available from What on Earth: "You might serve pasta on Italy, pierogi on Poland, sauerkraut on Germany, or paella on Spain. Each plate is shaped like the nation it represents, with major cities highlighted. Pieced together, you can create a substantial serving platter."

Via Apartment Therapy The Kitchen and thanks, Hunter!

Ties

I must wear a tie to work almost every day. Sadly, I have only two map ties: