It was about time to have a new London minimap, right? The first minimap that started all more than a year ago was East London Unconventional Musts, and it was the first minimap I made. This …
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MISTAKEN MAPS
Before the world had been fully explored, cartographers often made educated but incorrect guesses like portraying California as an island, the existence of a continent as big as Africa called “Java La Grande”, or the …
Secret Gardens: Rome
Rome, one of the most amazing cities in the world. It is all about history, but also its incredibly romantic, green, delicious, hedonistic, contradictory… and it’s full of cats. Apart from its huge parks like Villa Borghese, Villa …
ILLUSTRATOR: LUCY BANAJI
Hi, I’m an illustrator who lives and works in Hackney, London. Besides illustrating I’m a keen rock climber and spend most weekends in the Great Outdoors. I love climbing because it takes you to places …
EDITOR: ANNE-SOPHIE GRACIEUX
French and Parisian, working in culture and fundraising fields, I dived into the Grande Bellezza of Roma, 3 years ago. Leaving the Palais Garnier/Opéra national de Paris (where I worked for a long time) for the …
A Magic Journey: Iceland
Iceland, land of ice and fire, is one of the most amazing and different places you can ever imagine. A magic place where nature reigns above all, where you can see glaciers and in a …
ILLUSTRATOR: RENA ORTEGA
The name Renata comes from Italian and it means “reborn” But everybody knows me as Rena. I’m an illustrator, designer and world explorer based near Barcelona, between the city and the mountains. During childhood, I was …
Bookstores With A Charm : Madrid
Four hundred years ago Miguel de Cervantes died leaving his very well known Character “Don Quixote” as a legacy for the future times. That very same year, 1616, Shakespeare passed away leaving a full compendium …
Iechyd Da Means Cheers : Pembrokeshire
Hey bird! you want to visit South West Pembrokeshire? To make the best out of your visit you should follow the rule: ‘there is no bad weather, there is just bad clothing’. It also helps …
JEAN-MICHEL ALBEROLA: L’AVENTURE DES DÉTAILS
«Tout mon travail consiste à déplacer très légèrement quelque chose qui existe déjà. C’est à chacun de lire ce déplacement comme il l’entend. Il n’y a pas de vérité dans mon travail.» — Jean-Michel …
Caracas: Landmarked Naturally
Caracas, capital city of Venezuela, is a vibrant metropolis located at the center of the Americas. Its metropolitan area is separated from the Caribbean Sea by a majestic mountain chain, El Ávila, which has represented the city …
ILLUSTRATOR: ANDREA STERN
Andrea is a Graphic Designer born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Besides graphic design, her passions are singing and dancing, specifically urban styles. These passions, which she started soon in her life where enriched by …
EDITOR: RODRIGO CAPRILES
Rodrigo was born and raised in Caracas, a city of great social and economic contrasts! Growing in Caracas made him believe his city was kept inside the walls of places, since ‘caraqueños’ tend develop life between various …
Baires Gastronómico : Buenos Aires
After having invested a lot of time trying to spot the best gastronomic offers in town, from the simplest dish to the most sophisticated ones, the classics, the snobbish and some interesting new fast-food proposals …
TYPICAL SPANISH
[su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/157168824″ width=”980″][/su_vimeo] The Typical Spanish, a guide for guiris in trouble video from Fragmento Universo demonstrates that learning basic but very necessary Spanish expressions can be really easy and also beautiful (and sometimes very weird!). They are …
JustMAD @ COAM
This last week Madrid was all about art because while the biggest Spanish art fair, ARCO was in town there were a lot of alternative proposals. JustMAD was one of them and this year it was …
ILLUSTRATOR: JOANIE HUDSON
Joanie lives in San Francisco and works in sales for a winery based in Santa Barbara. In her spare time she is a freelance printmaker, specializing in linocut block prints. Family trips throughout Europe …
EDITOR: JULIA REIS
Julia is an Urban Planner and Architecture Designer graduated in São Paulo. Studied in Madrid, Spain for a year, time when she had the chance to travel a lot around Europe. Back to São Paulo, started …
ILLUSTRATOR: MARCOS ARÉVALO
Marcos is a Venezuelan graphic designer based in Spain for more than 12 years. His expertise is mainly in the fields of graphic design and web design, but he finds illustration and sound design as true …
EDITOR: DEVINA AGUS
Based in the Netherlands, Devina is a marketeer and spends her free time doing what she loves the most, which is eating and travelling! Luckily these two things go very well together. When travelling, not …
ILLUSTRATOR: JUAN DANIEL GONZÁLEZ
In Caracas, Juan Daniel spent several years working in advertising agencies as a copywriter. Then, four years ago, he moved to Barcelona eager to focus on really learning lllustration (he loves to draw since …
DREAMING OF MINIMAPPING: MENORCA
One year ago I was in my favorite Balearic island: Menorca. I was lucky enough to have traveled with a bunch of girls that are truly experts, almost “menorquíes“, so I easily enjoyed without …
A Slow Walk: Berwick-Upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a historic town that once was prized and fought over fiercely (it changed ownership between England and Scotland 13 times) and now seems to have settled into a retirement place that people don’t …
ILLUSTRATOR: CECILIA GUEVARA
Cecilia is a Graphic Designer who lives in Caracas but seize every opportunity she has to escape and explore the world, searching for interesting places and simple things. She’s very tolerant when traveling but there’s …
EDITORS: KHIN TYE
Khin is in-transition, in-between cities, in-between life stages and in-between vocations. Like my travels, I’ve worked and experienced work and life-times in corporate, NGO and charity sectors and am now moving onto creative and …
EDITOR: NINA BIRRI
Nina started traveling as a teenager, exploring Switzerland equipped with a Generalabonnement, the Swiss unlimited train travel card. Her first flight was an 18th-birthday gift and got her hooked to traveling further. One of her …
Folky, Colourful, Happy: Ciudad de México
[symple_column size=”one-third” position=”first” fade_in=”false”] Mexico Lindo y Querido! is a magic city with over 20million people, so possibilities are literally endless. Although is a massive and modern city the past and traditions are still fresh, …
DREAMING OF MINIMAPPING: LAKE COMO
I visited Lake Como a couple of years ago when Minimaps didn’t exist as it is right now, it was just a blurry idea, that’s why I would love to have the opportunity of …
DREAMING OF MINIMAPPING: JUAN-LES-PINS
Nina Burleigh’s article in The New York Times really got me thinking of my plans for the summer and craving for spending some time under the sun in Juan-les-Pins, a little town in the …
AN AIRBNB FOR THE KINKY? KINKBNB, OF COURSE
Photos via KinkBNB. What happens when you mix AirBNB’s business model with 50 Shades of Grey: KinkBNB. As they explain in their website “many sites offer to connect you to regular rooms, but …