Creators of high quality, beautiful handmade terrestrial and celestial world globes. Combining traditional techniques with pioneering design : Bellerby and Co, London : For main website please visit www.bellerbyandco.com

Hiring : Graphic Designer | Cartographer – Globemakers

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J’ai du mal à imaginer qu’il y a encore besoin de ce type de compétence aujourd’hui, mais l’annonce date du 2 janvier 2018 ... Pour celles et ceux qui voudraient postuler, c’est dans le Londres brexité.

We are an art studio specialising in handmade and handcrafted world globes. We have one full-time cartographer in our team and we are looking to add another person to help her as well as work on some design projects.

Each and every globe we make is bespoke to order and one of a kind in some way. Some customers choose to have hundreds of small edits and added pieces of personalisation.

More about the role and what we are looking for :

Technical experience in Illustrator is most important thing by far (extensive, complicated files with 70,000+ paths, 3000+ text objects)
File organisation and being meticulous with layers and details. Good planning, organisational and communication skills are a must.
Typography/layout skills and general composition of small elements
We have our own illustrator so the role will be more around operating and organising
This is a 98% digital job but in a very creative environment
Meticulous attention to detail
We are looking for someone enthusiastic, self-motivated and driven
Knowledge of GIS a bonus.

Daily life will usually include:

Simple edits – marking cities, changing colours/place markers
Major edits – placing illustrations/quotes, travel routes by car/boat/plane
Cartography updates – research and implementation of data from credible sources
Mockups of personalisation (edits) for customers
Print resizing
Managing printing of files for makers and painters
Answering the phone time to time – you should be confident talking & taking messages

#cartographie_classique #job #boulot

Celebrating 400 Years of Women in Cartography – Globemakers

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Une initiative vraiment très importante sur les femmes cartographes (oubliées, niées, cachées)

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Celebrating 400 Years of Women in Cartography
June 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
Celebrating 400 Years of Women in Cartography
Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education

There is an exhibition going on now for those of you who might be passing through…. Maine. Women in Cartography recognises and celebrates the long overlooked role of women in the world of mapping; bringing their stories, accomplishments, and most importantly their maps to light. Curated by Alice Hudson, former Chief of the Map Division at the New York Public Library, Women in Cartography showcases the works of better-known women cartographers such as Marie Tharp, who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific map of the entire ocean floor, and, Agnes Sinclair Holbrook who created the Hull-House maps, statistical cartographic presentations of social data from the immigrant rich Near West Side neighbourhoods of Chicago.

You can see the exhibition from March 26th – October 22nd 2015.

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Women have had many cartographic roles, depending on social and economic circumstances. Before 1800, women were integral, if generally obscure, members of the map trade; however, the industrialisation and corporatisation of the print trades led women to be excluded from the economic sphere of cartography. At the same time, the growth of Western economies gave new opportunities for women. However, they often thought it necessary to use only their initials rather than their full, feminine names. The growth of public education in the early nineteenth century, particularly in the U.S., included the formation of schools for young girls, where in addition to home-skills they were taught geography, often by drawing and embroidering maps and globes; women increasingly wrote school textbooks and often designed their maps as well. Women actively participated in the creation of maps for newly developing markets associated with automobile travel and tourism, preparing pictorial tourist maps and city guides. In academia, women have made ground-breaking maps of social, physical, and historical phenomena, using both traditional and now digital techniques. And, during World War II, when women filled the labor shortages created by mass conscription of men, thousands of women made maps for the U.S. military, only to leave the field after the war’s end.

#cartographie #femmes #discriminations #inégalités #histoire