Hand Drawn Map Association

I started the Hand Drawn Map Association in 2008 as a website for collecting maps and other diagrams drawn by hand. Today, I think of the HDMA as more of a public art project devoted to sharing maps and the stories they represent through a wide variety of formats including exhibitions, workshops, and lectures. I'm happy to announce this fall, Princeton Architectural Press is publishing From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association. The book contains an exclusive collection of over 140 maps I've collected since 2008.

HDMA book

I just got my first copies of From Here to There the other day. It's really exciting to see it finished. It's the size of a paperback novel which I think is a perfect fit for the content. Can't wait till it's released this September.

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HDMA workshop at Contemporary Museum

Hand Drawn Baltimore was a workshop at the Contemporary Museum where we helped draw a collective map of Baltimore. The workshop was organized by Ingrid Burrington who we met earlier that year at the Baltimore DIY Fest. Some of Ingrid's work is featured in From Here to There including her preliminary studies for her map of missed connections in Manhattan.

Draw a map get a prize

Good friends of the HDMA, Will Haughery and Krista Shaffer, at Philly Zine Fest. We invited people to sit down, chat, and draw a map. In return they received a hand drawn map of things to do in Philadelphia drawn by Ryan Anderson. A selection of the maps we received are featured on the HDMA website as collections CC.3a and CC.3b.

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Selections from the HDMA collection on exhibit at the Florida International University library in Miami.

This is map #4

World Curling Championship April 2000

The first map I ever collected was rescued from the trash outside the 2000 World Curling Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The map is now part of the permanent collection of the University of Colorado Library.

In the mail from Amanda Kamen: two maps including this one to her childhood home.

In the mail: new maps from @TGonzalez including this map to the scene of an accident.

Send your map to the HDMA.

Kris Harzinski is an artist and designer currently based in Philadelphia.

This means I make things (sure), but it also means I obsessively collect ephemera, research and write about maps, design websites, search for significance in the mundane aspects of daily life and so on. Right now, most of my time is spent working on my project The Hand Drawn Map Association.

I also work with M12, a non-profit collective of artists creating innovative public art projects.

Some Projects

Hand Drawn Map Association

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Objects for the HDMA

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