This map depicts the land cover, terrain, walking tracks, and backcountry huts of Arthur’s Pass National Park, New Zealand. The physical landscape is given prominence over human infrastructure.
Natural colours ...
Invincible Spirit
Dan Bryant: First New Zealander on Everest
Lyn McKinnon, RuruInk, 2024
I was commissioned to create five maps to illustrate a biography of mountaineer Dan Bryant: the first New Zealander ...
Wilderness magazine special issue
Wilderness magazine commissioned me to create a map of each of New Zealand’s Great Walks for their September 2021 special issue.
NZ has ten great walks across ...
Published in the August 2022 edition of Wilderness magazine
Linework style oblique maps in colour and greyscale, highlighting the terrain, huts and campsites, and ...
A map of the Queenstown Trails cycle network.
I was commissioned to create a basemap, upon which a branding and design consultancy could overlay the trails, symbols, and labels.
The basemap ...
A human-powered expedition to link all of NZ's highest peaks
Published in the Autumn 2022 edition of Climbing in Aotearoa: The New Zealand Alpine Journal
In the summer at the end ...
This map depicts the land cover, terrain, walking tracks, and backcountry huts of Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand. The physical landscape is given prominence over human infrastructure.
Natural colours ...
Those Who Have The Courage:
The history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps and predecessor forces
Matthew Wright, Oratia Books 2024
I was commissioned to create a series of ten maps ...
Day 20 of #30DayMapChallenge
Rural
A map that I'm very proud of.
The only two ingredients are the Topo50 map images and the digital elevation model, both from the LINZ Data Service, ...
New Zealand Alpine Journal article
A full-bleed spread and four half-page maps illustrating the route taken by a group on their traverse of the Southern Alps/ Kā Tiritiri o te ...
Day 24 of #30DayMapChallenge
Elevation
A 3D render of New Zealand's North Island volcanic plateau, including arguably the most popular day-walk in the ...
Published in the September 2022 edition of Wilderness magazine
Linework style oblique maps in colour and greyscale, highlighting the terrain, huts and campsites, and ...
1:10,000 scale topographic map of Broken River ski area
Craigieburn Range, Canterbury, New Zealand
During summer/autumn the field is devoid of snow, but still open for walking, biking, etc.
This map was ...
The mountains of southern Tajikistan
From the Spring 2021 edition of Climbing in Aotearoa: The New Zealand Alpine Journal
This map was created to illustrate an article by Pat Deavoll detailing ...
Plan oblique linework
From the Spring 2021 edition of Climbing in Aotearoa: The New Zealand Alpine Journal
This map was created to illustrate an article by my friend Nia Weinzweig about ...
A map of the route taken on a weekend trip to the Sealy Range, Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.
Created in Blender using a toon shader and freestyle lines, and ...
Published in the October 2022 edition of Wilderness magazine
Linework style oblique maps in colour and greyscale, highlighting the terrain, huts and campsites, and ...
#30DayMapChallenge 2021
Day 7 – Green
One from the very recent archive.
An A1-sized poster of a bike ride down the length of the South Island.
This was commissioned by a friend as ...
Ski touring trip to Tasman Saddle Hut
New Zealand Alpine Club / Alpine Recreation
Me and a few friends went on a guided ski touring trip to the top of Haupapa/Tasman ...
