Weekly Round-up - 12th February, 2018

Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what's been happening at the Guild over the past seven days.





Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.

• Castle of Azulhoc, by Tenia
• Xenomorphs: The Fall of Somerset Landing, by Meshon
• A few new maps from Sapiento: Jorvik City, and two Story maps
• The Independancy of Khamid, by vorropohaiah
• Caenwyr's been working a large commission lately. Here's a mosaic of all the Heimfold maps, and you can see all the individual maps via links in this thread.

The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.

• Greg and DanielHasenbos have teamed up to launch a joint Patreon. Here's the announcement post. Greg's first contribution to the Patreon is Thornwatch Inn, and Daniel's is 'Wine Cellar Themed Dungeon Tiles'. Good luck, guys!
• Azélor made a map with MS Excel!
• Straf's working on a new map titled, err, 'No name or anything'
• Blaidd Drwg is working on a city map 'Tún Vareg'
• Chronist posted several maps in thread 'The Society for Exploration and Adventure of Maracasar - Guild house'

We don’t have any new Cartographers’ Choice award to announce unfortunately, but did you know you can check out all the previous winners via one handy list? Go indulge yourself in some gorgeous maps, and see how styles have changed over the years.





Lite Challenge
Jan/Feb’s Lite Challenge ends in a couple of days, so finish up those maps and post ‘em!. Some great entries so far. Check ‘em out here.


Regular Challenge
February’s challenge is ‘Elevator Pitch Prophecies’. Use a random generator to create a prophecy, and create a map from it. Simples! More info on how the challenge works here.





Less than three weeks left to nominate, so if you haven’t picked your favs from last year yet, go do it now! Voting will start soon after 3rd March, and our polls will be slightly different from usual this year, so watch out for that.

See all the current nominations here.





Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure...

• An artist is re-imagining the UK’s national parks in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien’s maps
• A Brief History of Type
• With the winter Olympics kicking off, here are some historical maps of Korea.
• This man is turning maps of his running routes into beautiful art.
• Ever wondered how big Barad-dur is compared to Big Ben? Of course you have! This infographic, via Orbit Books, might help.
• From NY Public Library maps division, a lithographed map centred on Grand Rivers, Kentucky.
• Are you ready to take your map love to the next level, with a quite extraordinary tattoo?

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