How it’s made
Not printed.Drawn.
Every piece leaves this studio as a physical drawing: a pen plotter holds a real pen and pulls wet ink across the sheet, one line at a time. The design is computed with digital precision; the object is made by a mechanical drawing process with all the subtle character that ink and paper bring. This page walks through exactly how a place becomes a plotted sheet.
Subject
A place worth keeping
A piece starts with somewhere specific: a campus city, a trail, a course or a home. Choose a drawing from the collection, frame your own place in the map designer, or describe a bespoke subject.
Data
Real geographic source data
Maps are built from OpenStreetMap vector data, including mapped road centre-lines, rivers, railways, parks and building footprints. They are never traced from a screenshot. Trail pieces add elevation data for terrain relief.
Composition
Composed as a drawing sheet
The place is set into a fixed plate composition: sheet size, borders, title and wording zones, and a considered hierarchy of roads, water, rail, green space and landmark buildings. Custom work is approved as an on-screen proof before any pen moves.
Pen paths
Compiled into pen paths
Every line becomes a physical instruction: which pen, what nib width, what order. The drawing order is optimised so the pen travels less with the nib up, and each ink colour is drawn as its own complete pass.
Plot
Drawn in real ink
A pen plotter draws the piece one line at a time, using a real nib and wet ink in one continuous mechanical drawing session per colour. Ink sits on the paper the way handwriting does, with the subtle physical character no flat print has.
Finish
Checked, finished, dispatched
Each sheet is inspected against its drawing plan, then packed flat in a board-backed envelope (rolled in a tube at A2) and tracked from dispatch. Framed pieces are glazed and fitted directly to the sheet edge, ready to hang.
See the linework for yourself.