1001 Creative ideas !

For Chinese artist Ji Zhou, maps are used as a raw material to create mountainous landscapes by playing on textures and colors of crumpled paper. In the case of books, it is the verticality of their stack that creates towers reminiscent of skyscrapers in large cities. http://bit.ly/1YBVdmy

Artist Ed Fairburn uses old road, trains and rivers maps to create those portraits. Such as a sculpture from a block of stone, Fairburn uses meticulously hatched pen and ink to create portraits from topographic characteristics. http://bit.ly/1bOaY1W