The antecedent of Google Maps: a map of London, finely wrought in fountain ink on a white lamb skin glove, circa 1851. Followed a century later by a novelty map of Florida, printed on a flaccid condom.
Heart on your sleeve; address on your hand [Bioephemera] : Mapping the Marvelous
Categories: Cartography, Fashion, Victorianism
Posted at 10:09 am on January 2, 2008
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E.G. GAUGER - EDITOR/CO-FOUNDER
JOHN BROWNLEE - WRITER/CO-FOUNDER
ROSS ROSENBERG - SENIOR WRITER
WILL ELLWOOD - WRITER
BECK NYGARD - WRITER
BJORN TOWNSEND - WRITER
JEB CARD - GUEST WRITER
HARRISON PARKER - GUEST WRITER
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
