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Cartographer, Dataviz, Geospatial scientist, & cartography author always pursuing creative visualization @esri You'll find me either rock climbing or map-making

Bellingham, WA

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Sarah Bell

5 months

(Finally!) I've posted a new hand-drawn hillshade tutorial. My old one lived on a site that no longer exists, so I've rewritten it - complete with steps and time-lapse videos. Thanks to those of you asking where the heck it is! You've been my motivation.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I have finished designing my new font! Inspired by old USGS topo maps. Download & use it for free if you wish! More characters & styles will be added soon. #cartography

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3 years

I have finished designing a new font that I've named "High Alpine." It's name comes from its tall design and my climbing pursuits. I'm excited to share a little post about its design, where you can also read how to download it!

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5 years

I made this for folks who need to visually reconcile that X = Longitude and Y = Latitude. In other words, I made this for me.

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6 years

I wrote a tutorial for how I draw hand-drawn hillshade, up on my blog now. Each step has a time lapse video showing the process. Enjoy! 🗻 #cartography #drawing #nacis2018

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3 years

Map projections are fun.

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Would anyone be interested in a short serial course on mapmaking & Illustrator?

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Sarah Bell

2 years

I have decided to make the High Alpine font free even for commercial use. You can download it here:

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Sarah Bell

5 years

I wrote a tutorial for how I draw *color* hand-drawn hillshade, up on my blog now. Includes time-lapse videos of the process. Enjoy! #cartography #nacis2019

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4 years

If I could tell people one thing about maps it would be: They are not unbiased documents. They are a long series of choices - even your smart phone map - is full of biases that the mapmaker wanted you to see. Here is why that is beautiful 1/

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Sarah Bell

3 years

New t-shirt appropriate for all occasions.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I love making maps.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Map of the day. Author unknown.

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Sarah Bell

2 years

The view approaching home: Seattle with Mt. Rainier in the background. #pnw

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Sarah Bell

3 years

I'm often interested in exploring more than one style on a single map. Here are 2 styles of a bird range map. Robins are already singing the promise of Spring! Soon Swainson's Thrush will be singing here too. Both birds in the Turdidae family. #cartography #birbs

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Personal thing I’ve been reluctant to share here but I’ve been unable to respond to folks on social media lately & need to let them know I will be unresponsive for a bit: my parents are both in the hospital & the prognosis is poor for my father. All your love is well received.

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Sarah Bell

6 years

I was influence by art deco souvenir pamphlets for this map. I see these ad-like maps while hunting for maps in antique stores: Pulpy paper, halftones, delicious exaggerated flair of the local area. So I included a ferry inspired by the Kalalala @wsferries ferry #cartography #pnw

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Sarah Bell

2 years

This map I'm working on is making me thirsty.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Which results in better maps? Tweet-shaming or lending expert knowledge to your fellow map maker? Asking for a lot of cartographers tired of seeing tweet-shaming.

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Sarah Bell

3 years

A few days ago while rock climbing, I photographed some pretty sandstone. Today I used the photo to make a fantasy map of some of Kystfjell's islands. #30DayMapChallenge day 19: Islands

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Sarah Bell

3 years

In this video, I’ll share 2 differently shoreline effects you can add to your maps in Adobe Illustrator. #cartography

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Sarah Bell

11 months

Welcome to the cartography party 🗺️

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why not?

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Sarah Bell

4 years

The cartography world has lost a wonderful human, my mentor and friend Clint Loveman. Many of you knew and admired Clint as well. His immense kindness & energy cannot be overstated. Here I share a few words.

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Sarah Bell

3 years

From the preface of my book, Mapping By Design, highlighting one of the reasons that I: 1) Love my chosen career 2) Avoid gatekeeping We are *all* still learning.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Yesterday, I began working on this map of a place I've never visited, but sure would like to. #WIP

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Expect 200% more jokes in all of my future presentations. And deal with it.

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Women may actually be harming their presentation outcomes by making jokes.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I made these 2 (WIP) maps inspired by 70s & 80s book covers. I used the new Maps for Adobe 2.0 which allows you to open AIX files from Pro as organized layers in Illustrator. Sign up for our upcoming webinar to see me & @anna_breton demo the process.

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Sarah Bell

8 months

Progression of hand drawn hillshade, Ross Lake area of the North Cascades range. #30DayMapChallenge analog. A while back.

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Sarah Bell

5 years

I've been asked a few times, "If you had to choose between mapping or climbing, which would you choose?" I respond by making maps about rock climbing. Read: Super thanks to @pinakographos for the monochrome mapping call. #cartography

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Sarah Bell

2 years

*Sleep Under the Stars* day is coming up August 8th — as I am easing out of my climbing vacation. So why not map all US car-accessible campgrounds & select climbing spots styled as a star chart?

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Sarah Bell

3 years

I'm so into this minimalist map by @pinakographos . It shows continental divides of North America as ridgelines. Its color & simplicity is gorgeous. In his post he calls the halftone gratuitous, but I think it adds a winsome approachability.

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Continental Divides — somethingaboutmaps

Continental Divides July 2021Honorable Mention: CaGIS 2021 Map AwardsThe major drainage divides of the various continents, complete with gratuitous...

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Sarah Bell

3 years

I made these two New River Gorge National Park maps to celebrate #NationalParkWeek . The New is America's newest Park and has world class rock climbing. Go enjoy your @NatlParkService ! Read a lil about how I made the map here:

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Sarah Bell

5 years

Although being the first to present at #NACIS2019 PCD could cause 🦋, my talk is about the calming practice of drawing color hillshade. I’ll be adding color to this hand-drawn map of the North Cascades. #sharingmethods

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Today’s activity: Using the patterns of something real to make a fantasy-esque map. #creativecarto

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Sarah Bell

4 years

#30DayMapChallenge (Lines) Driving routes & times from the geographic center of the contiguous USA to selected rock climbing destinations.

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Hey, cartographers! In addition to your mapping passion, what is another activity that energizes you? And what are the similarities & differences between the two? For me it’s climbing. 🧗🏼‍♀️

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Sarah Bell

4 years

#30DayMapChallenge Day 19. <NULL> US States Without Bats

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I'll be doing my first YouTube live-stream this Sunday on transparency masks in map design. It will be quick & is mostly practice for @pinakographos ' 'How to do Map Stuff' online event.

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Sarah Bell

11 months

Here's the animated version of the John Snow cholera map that I made & shared at Esri UC last week. I made it w/ Pro, Illustrator (via Maps for Adobe), & After Effects. Has audio, an element I enjoyed using in a map.

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John Snow's 1854 Cholera Map Data Animated. Adobe After Effects

UPDATED with audio and final closing screen. Thanks for the likes and nice comments on the first video. This is a newly updated version. I created this map a...

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Excited to share a couple of new updates for the BellTopo Sans font: 1) BellTopo Sans Regular is available in the new @ArcGISOnline Map Viewer Beta 2) I added new styles: Bold, Italic, & Bold Italic. Download the font & use for free if you wish!

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Sarah Bell

5 years

I am now a member of the elite club of people who’ve typed their password into the username box during a live demo. 🥇

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Sarah Bell

2 years

New Fantasy Map. Here's my latest "Turn this rock into a map." I snapped this pic in Red Rock Canyon at the Trophy Wall area.

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Some lemon-yellow Tissot's indicatrices for your afternoon. #cartography

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Sarah Bell

6 years

I chose to do a late-1800s style for my fourth of nine different styles of the same map extent. Early in the making, but oh so fun! #cartography #serialmapping

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Sarah Bell

4 years

It's done! (for now). BellTopo Sans is out of beta and in version 1.0. Here is my post about the updates, and where you can download the free font.

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Sarah Bell

9 months

My colleague, Maps for Adobe engineer Ashley helped create useful OSM libraries. You can search these libraries to add OSM basemaps to your maps in Maps for Adobe - neatly organized Illustrator files! Ashley writes a great how-to here:

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How to use OpenStreetMap in ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud

See how OpenStreetMap vector basemaps and layers work in the ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension.

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Sarah Bell

1 year

This place is a mapper’s delight! “A Portfolio of Thematic Computer Maps” by a geographer from @WWU - my alma mater at the American Geographical Society library in Milwaukee.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I wish I could've completed this sketch in time for the #30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Elevation but I've had no time. So here is the *extremely* preliminary sketch, which hopefully will soon become a finished hillshade of part of Utah's canyons.

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Sarah Bell

7 months

#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Retro. Two red hummingbird ranges, the beautiful territorial rufous and the Eastern Ruby-throated. Made a few months ago.

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Sarah Bell

6 years

I’ve been drawing hillshades all weekend, since it’s been a little too chilly to climb. Here’s one of my sketches from today. ⛰ #cartography #sketchbook

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Sarah Bell

1 year

Friday news: I am now writing a book about this! It is the book I always wanted to write. I'm in the very beginning stage (we're talking page 1 folks). But I'm super happy to get started on it. #cartography #gis

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Would anyone be interested in a short serial course on mapmaking & Illustrator?

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Sarah Bell

4 years

The opening slide for my #NACIS2020 presentation? Maybe!

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Sarah Bell

6 years

TFW you’re so elated with an experience that you make a map. Here’s a map I made inspired by rock climbing at Red River Gorge. #Cartography

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Sarah Bell

2 years

We don’t owe anyone our personal stories to deserve freedom.

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Sarah Bell

6 years

Some of the most beautiful dataviz is behind the scenes stuff - notebooks, storyboards, thumbnails, & journals made during the iterative creative process. Luckily @margot_carto shared her gorgeous hydro thumbs w/ us last week. #cartography

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Hey Mapmakers! Coming soon! I wrote a textbook on @mapsforadobe Tutorials abound 🗺

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I’m writing a book, and once it is complete, I’m looking forward to counting the times the word “map” is used. It is very mappy.

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Sarah Bell

5 years

It's about time I do this.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I'm delighted & honored to have my piece on Map Icon Design published in the GIS&T Body of Knowledge today. The GISTBoK is a great resource for those practicing & teaching spatial. 🌍

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Define “cartography” without using “art” and “science.”

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Sarah Bell

2 years

#30DayMapChallenge Day 8: OSM data. Buildings in Seattle, Washington.

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Sarah Bell

3 years

I’m currently working a new font that I’m calling “Tall Cedar.” I just needed to put that out in the universe for personal accountability.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Obligatory virtual attendance photo. #EsriUC #EsriUC2020

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Sarah Bell

4 years

It’s up, folks! Here is our webinar where my marvelous colleague @anna_breton and I share a few cartography tips with the new ArcGISPro-to-Maps for Adobe workflow. #cartography

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Sarah Bell

8 months

The climbing gym in Pittsburgh has a giant map mural. Seems quite fitting for #NACIS2023 🗺️

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Sarah Bell

3 years

I'm honored to be announced as the keynote for the upcoming Northwest GIS User Group conference this fall. See you there!

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I made a YouTube tutorial for when you need to mimic building footprint shadows in simple maps in Illustrator. Thanks to @pinakographos for the push into the realm of YouTube knowledge sharing.

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Use Illustrator Blend Tool in Your Maps: Building footprint shadows

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Adobe Illustrator Blend tool to hack building footprint shadows. Making maps in Illustrator is fantastic, as ...

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Big day today! I drilled the first hold in our home rock climbing wall. It’s not quite done, but this shutdown project is almost complete. Biggest smile I’ve had in a while.🧗🏼‍♀️

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Sarah Bell

5 years

My first time on a podcast 🔊 I got to talk about critical cartography, why I’m so excited about being a cartographer today, & one of the many reasons I love my job. This was fun. Thanks for having me @themappyisthour

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Sarah Bell

5 years

No filter. Just sunrise realness.

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Sarah Bell

2 years

Whoa! The first map I saw as walked in the #EsriUC map gallery was this of by @CartoDBS using BellTopo Sans! And 30 second later, the mapmaker himself showed up. Nice to meet fellow cartos in person. 🗺

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Sarah Bell

3 years

My New Year’s resolution is to continue to neglect my LinkedIn profile.

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Sarah Bell

4 years

It has arrived! 📖 A beautiful book by fellow cartographer @wesleytjones

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Sarah Bell

2 years

My map of California wine country on La Pelle’s 2020 Syrah wine label. Cheers!

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Sarah Bell

2 years

While making this map of this part of California, I kind of wanted to road trip with Paul Giamatti. The vast ocean area and snug "Pacific Ocean" label will make sense on the final version of this map.

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Sarah Bell

8 months

Starting in November, I’ll be hanging some of my maps in local galleries. Now I just need to figure out a way to frame 20+ maps over the weekend. 🗺️

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Sarah Bell

4 years

I am making a set of neuomorphic point symbols for some maps, and decided to use these Seattle building footprints to test various techniques. Here is the first sketch.

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Sarah Bell

5 years

About 3.5 years ago, I challenged my little hermit self to join twitter, and it hasn’t been too scary. In part, this is because of carto twitter. Y’all are great.

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Sarah Bell

2 years

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Bad. Here are 10 cities in the world with "Bad" in their name according to geotargit(dot)com.

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Sarah Bell

2 years

Proof that cartographers see maps *everywhere*. I posted an Instagram story (left) this morning, and @jonahadkins replied with the brilliant map (right). Bravo Jonah 👏

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Sarah Bell

1 year

Fontmaking on a Friday night. I've just completed the letters! On to numbers & glyphs, and a little refining - then Equinox font will be released into the wild! #typeface

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Sarah Bell

5 years

A chronology of design for my lil' geology map: Rock Class of British Columbia. #cartography #dataviz

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2 years

It's coming along. Cheers!

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2 years

This map I'm working on is making me thirsty.

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Sarah Bell

3 years

Who leaked our secret?

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World’s Cartographers Continue Living Secret Life Of Luxury On Idyllic, Never Disclosed 8th Continent

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Sarah Bell

2 months

Gratitude post! Something I’ve wanted to do for so long - I just finished hosting a GIS gathering of local women. A dozen of us sharing what we do and learning about each other’s geo experiences. 1/

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Sarah Bell

4 years

That was fast! My copy of @pinakographos ’ transit-inspired map of N. American rivers arrived today. It’s printed on high quality paper too. ‘Can’t wait to find this beauty a frame.

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6 years

Me on LinkedIn: Silence Me on Insta: Adventures are fun! Me on Twitter: Cartography is fun! Me on Facebook: Burn the patriarchy. 🔥

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Sarah Bell

2 years

I created this lil vid as a study in After Effects in prep for a larger map project. I call these practice goes “sketches.” I’m excited for the bigger proj & becoming super familiar w/ this tool. (music added to avoid silence. Actual proj will have voice etc)

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Sarah Bell

3 years

A bit delayed, but Monochrome nonetheless. #30DayMapChallenge I did some tweaks to this map that I made a little while ago. Made in Illustrator w/ @mapsforadobe

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Sarah Bell

2 years

Oh hello there! @jm_peterson sent me a pic of my book for sale at #DevSummit 👀

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Sarah Bell

4 years

Creativity has been a useful tool these days (more than usual). Early into this map I'm making. I decided to use a fading halftone pattern for the shoreline rather than a concentric shoreline effect. Mapping a place I love.

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2 years

My (wip) contribution for @pinakographos ’ map projection trading cards. Equidistant Conic.

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2 years

When your dog sitter leaves a custom watercolor painting of your dog. 🥹 Jasper’s perch.

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5 months

A poem about our profession.

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11 years

Maps. I love them. Love reading them , love planning adventures. Love seeing how things relate topographically.

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3 years

A family that - maps together! My nephew started making fantasy maps. He & I are going to make one together & record the process. Nephew will make the design decisions. I'll be there for tech & carto support. I am beyond thrilled abt this.

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10 months

In ch.3 of my in-prog book, readers will make this Mexico map. I’ll have them bring it to a point, as they read abt mapmaking in Maps for Adobe & Illustrator. This WIP version demos the part where I encourage readers to continue exploring their own unique style if they choose.

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7 years

Making this Art Deco style map for one of my @NACIS presentations showing all the Art Deco buildings near #NACIS2017

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5 months

Day 1 of vacation did not disappoint.

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2 years

Well, look what arrived in the mail last night. They are all so wonderful.

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Sarah Bell

2 years

The book releases tomorrow! Thanks to all of you messaging that your pre-order arrived! Your kind words fill me with gratitude.

Mapping by Design: A Guide to ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud

Mapping by Design: A Guide to ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud

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