About Joe
I've been making maps for 25 years. (Yes, that's before everything was done with computers.) In that time, I've created 5,000 maps: current event maps, historical maps, rainfall maps, political, physical and cultural maps. I've also done information graphics, earth science, life science and technical illustrations. If there's anything you want to see but can't find here, please email me at joe@mapartist.com.

Over the years, I developed a technique with (modified) airbrushes I've since improved using high-tech tools. You've seen my work in publications like the New York Times, Natural History magazine, Audubon magazine and the Chicago Tribune and, if you've got children or were one yourself, you've seen my maps in textbooks.

Not only am I published by major magazines and book publishers (including 18 maps in a recent edition of The Bible), but my work has also been seen:

  • On billboards (in Florida for Kmart)
  • On museum displays (Oklahoma, North Carolina and American Museums of Natural History
  • On flags (in the Lake Erie Museum) and
  • As trail markers (in Coos Bay, Oregon)
  • Even on maps (of SOHO for the City of New York)

Before maps and I found each other, I studied Art and Chemistry at Bard College and taught painting at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. There, I made very flat paintings, I explored flatness. Currently, I work from my studio in Maplewood, New Jersey where I live with my wife and two young daughters.

My prices are competitive, I work quickly and can meet any deadline. If you'd like an estimate on an upcoming project, please email or call me at 973-761-0703.

Thank you,
Joe