EcoGraphic :: Communication and Design

A new book has recently been released: " Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas"

From the publisher's website:

At Last! The love and painstaking work of over 3,000 islanders, from Saturna to Cortes, can now be appreciated by a wider audience.

During a five year period, The Islands in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project engaged the help of enthusiastic local groups to gather information on everything from oral history with elders to scientific data. More than 30 local artists then brought these layers of accumulated information to life in vividly unique and extraordinary maps. The result is a powerful array of mixed media art forms reflecting not only the islands’ outstanding beauty, but also human elements of culture and diversity in a rapidly developing and fragile region.

This extraordinary collection portrays these popular islands, linking art, science, and local knowledge into an innovative, millennial atlas, including how each map came to be. Additional chapters describe the origins and strengths of the discipline of artistic community mapping, the unfolding of the mapping project from first spark to proud finale, and also the history and character of the islands.

You can order it here through Heritage House Publishers:

Islands in the Salish Sea Order Page