In 2011 I collaborated again with Meg Gordon and the Centenary Suburbs Historical Society (www.cshsoc.org.au) by drawing the maps for their impressive publication “When River Was Roadway”, subtitled “Pioneer Farmers of Brisbane’s Seventeen Mile Rocks District”.
It is a monochrome publication, and I went with a not so subtle “old world” feel to the typography where it referred to older features and a more modern look for modern features. Here is one of several maps which appear in the book:
Thanks to Tim Roberts (no relation) and Meg Gordon for their help with this.
This map shows a number of contiguous reserves managed by Ipswich City Council (ICC) and (we think) the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. The open area at the northern tip used to be a gravel quarry; ICC plans to develop it for recreation, but the area gets inundated and sometimes scoured during flood events.
The darker green on this map shows one of the few remaining areas of Rainforest on the Brisbane River. There are known to be overgrown trails in there and part of the ICC plan is to open them up through to Camerons Scrub.
Update: the latest version of this map includes substantial additional Council reserve identified at the SE corner.Sapling Pocket
The northernmost and one of the lesser Glass House Mountains, Mt Coochin has no formal walking trails to the twin peaks. Protective clothing, stout shoes and a sense of humour may be advisable, but lots of adventurous families make it to the top(s) every year. We have not visited this map so the details cannot be entirely trusted:
This trail was rejected for our Family Bushwalks book because it is in poor condition.
A map which don’t make it into our Family Bushwalks book. I used to live round the corner and help with bushcare here.
A map which didn’t make it into our Family Bushwalks book but would have been good for our Family Rides book. The information icons are signs about historical points of interest. A trail of these continues south along a bike path.
A draft orienteering map of a school which will one day be fieldworked by a friend, so for the moment it lacks the usual detail:
A map of the route for an organised race on the Sunshine Coast:
This is my “biggest” map ever – it was printed at I think A0 size and put on a sign at the entrance to my sons’ school a few years ago:
My son’s school asked me to create these a few years ago. I made dozens of them, each one customised not only to the building it is in, but also the wall it is mounted on.
First I stared long and hard at the traditional diagrams and decided they were almost useless. They are horribly cluttered, carry far too much irrelevant information, and they try to say two things at once – Evacuation Routes and locations of Safety Equipment.
I wanted to make something that didn’t just address statutory requirements, but actually enhanced safety. My solution was two make two quite separate diagrams, each containing only the bare minimum of information, and to orient the Evacuation Diagram to correspond to its location.
