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CARTOGRAPHY 


Illustrated maps provide a playful and engaging way to tell the stories of the places they represent, balancing whimsy and way-finding functionality. My maps have been used for music festivals, public programs, academic projects, personal mementos and more.

Check out some of my past map work and contact me to talk cartography for your next project! 

ENCAMPMENT SUPPORT NETWORK

The Housing Crisis is a Real Estate Game 


I worked with the Encampment Support Network’s “explainers committee” to develop an interactive map demonstrating how the so-called housing crisis is the result of a web of interconnected policies and deeply embedded societal values prioritizing real estate and private property over the wellbeing of all. 


COACH HOUSE BOOKS

Any Night of the Week Maps


These maps were illustrated to accompany Jonny Dovercourt’s ode to Toronto music history, Any Night of the Week published by Coach House Books, and a podcast series of the same name. The book documents Toronto's music scene with its Yonge Street origins and its gradual move west (maps 1 to 3) while the podcast explores music’s role in neighbourhoods across the city (maps 3 to 6). The venues included span from legendary to almost forgotten, but all contributed to the city we know and love today.


THE GRIND MAGAZINE

Ford’s Biggest Flops


For the Grind Magazine’s 2025 provincial election issue, I mapped an (incomplete) list of Doug Ford’s biggest flops, spatializing the endless incompetence, corruption, kick backs, delays, preferential treatments, and straight up evil that has characterized Ontario politics since 2018.


UMA NOTA CULTURE

Geary Art Crawl Maps


This map for was illustrated for 2022 edition of the Geary Art Crawl and its 2023 winter counter part. In 2022, the brilliant team at Uma Nota Culture packed over 30 art activations and more than 7 music zones featuring performances by the best of independent Toronto musicians.



PARKDALE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST

Parkdale Tower Rental Housing Study Maps


This map commissioned by the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust highlights buildings included in its 2022 report, Parkdale Tower Rental Housing Study, an eight-month community-based action research project on the impact of financialization and gentrification on Parkdale’s rental towers on housing affordability and tenant wellbeing.



SCARBOROUGH ARTS

ArtworxTO Local Tour Maps


A series of maps illustrated for Scarborough Arts to celebrate Toronto’s Year of Public Art. The maps were developed in collaboration with Howard Tam of Eat More Scarborough and the Tamil Archive Project, and were accompanied with delicious food tours throughout the summers of 2021 and 2022. 



EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS 

In which we draw a people’s map of the Don River


A map for Mare Liberum’s ongoing Evergreen Brick Works project investigating the histories and geographies of the Wonscontonach/Don River. Each illustration on the map corresponds to an episode of Don River Radio, hosted by Dylan Gauthier.


CITY OF TORONTO
Cultural Loops Guide


For the City of Toronto’s Cultural Hotspots initiative, I illustrated maps for the North York Cultural Loops Guide (2016), the East Toronto Cultural Loops Guide (2018), and the York Cultural Loops Guide (2019) (maps 1 to 4). The guides encourage Torontonians to explore the ecology, history and culture of neighbourhoods outside the downtown core. Building off this initiative, the City of Toronto’s My City My 6 project was a series of resident-submitted six word poems evoking the feeling of life in Toronto, with exhibits across the city illustrated in map 5.  


The landmarks of Queen St East Map of North York cultural landmarks for the City of Toronto A tour of Ashbridges Bay and the Beaches An in depth tour of the history of Toronto's Beaches neighbourhood

CARTOGRAMS
Reimagining Geographies


While we navigate with apps like Google Maps to go as quickly as possible from point A to point B, the way we conceive of space is more subjective and emotional, placing more emphasis on places we know and have connections and exaggerating them in our conception of space. 

These maps attempt to express that subjective scale, closer to how we actually experience and navigate place. 

Southern Ontario’s physical geography is often derided as flat and boring, ignored behind 400-series superhighways and big box plazas. Beyond the highways, the landscape is dramatic! This map is an effort to re-assert these three cities’ beautiful landscapes into our geographic conscience. Every street has a own story. These maps are a celebration of the history, architecture and culture of a street, as told through its local landmarks and unique buildings. Here's Alice Street in Guelph, Ontario The landmarks of Woodlawn Road in Guelph, Ontario

LEARNT WISDOM LECTURE SERIES
Lecture Route Maps

For the Learnt Wisdom Lecture Series, a story-telling meets urban exploration series, illustrated maps accompanied each event to guide guests from a designated meet up to the event space, held in overlooked and neglected spaces throughout Toronto. 

Learnt Wisdom #1: Things Your Parents Never Told You, under the Mount Pleasant/Rosedale Valley bridge Learnt Wisdom #2: Over the Hill, under the Dundas West/Humber River bridge Learnt Wisdom #3: Reckless Abandon, in Downtown Centreville, Toronto Island Learnt Wisdom #4: The Deep End, in the Joseph J. Piccininni Pool Learnt Wisdom #5: Getting Off, within the York Street off ramp Learnt Wisdom #6: Above and Beyond, on the Old Eastern Avenue bridge over the Don River

VARIOUS
A selection of illustrated maps


Want to see more? Here’s a few more of my illustrated maps that demonstrate the range of style and application possible with cartography.

A map of the Village of Islington made for Arts Etobicoke's "Art is Here" program Map of Upper Canada College for a donation drive Map of Queen Street West's nightlife icons and landmarks, for the Queen West BIA A public art tour map made for East End Arts As part of the campaign to stop the Line 9 pipeline from transporting oil in unsafe infrastructure, this map highlighted how the city of Toronto would suffer from a leak: Line 9 crosses over every major river in the city. For the Living Architecture Self Guided Tour. Toronto abounds in sustainable architecture, but much of it is just beyond the street. This map encourages exploration by highlighting publicly accessible green roofs and living walls in the city, along with bike and streetcar routes to get to them. For the 2016 season of the Craft Beer Passport, I illustrated a map to quench the urge to explore Toronto and drink beer at the same time. Also check out the pub crawl maps I made suggesting routes in 2015. A public art tour map made for East End Arts A wall map highlighting the scope of work of Toronto's first Jewish architect was part of the Ontario Jewish Archive's Benjamin Brown exhibit at the Urbanspace Gallery in April 2016.



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