Design
Cartography: A Compendium of Design Thinking for Mapmakers. Kenneth Field. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2018.
Cartography: An Introduction. Giles Darkes and Mary Spence. London: British Cartographic Society, 2017.
Designing Better Maps: a Guide for GIS Users. 3rd edition. Cynthia A. Brewer. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2024.
GIS Cartography: a Guide to Effective Map Design. 4th edition. Gretchen N. Peterson. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2025.
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. 4th edition. John Krygier and Denis Wood. New York: Guilford, 2025.
Principles of Map Design. Judith A. Tyner. New York: Guilford Press, 2010.
Also available online.
Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-based Narratives. Allen Carroll. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2024.
Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data. Kenneth Field. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2022.
Mapping Time
Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard’s Map of Napoleon’s Russian Campaign of 1812. Menno-Jan Kraak. Redlands, Calif.: Esri Press, 2014.
Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion: Mapping Stories and Movement through Time, Zef Segal and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze,editors. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Also available online
Maps as Art
The Art of Map Illustration: a Step-by-Step Artistic Exploration of Contemporary Cartography and Mapmaking. James Gulliver Hancock. Lake Forest, Calif.: Walter Foster Publishing, 2018.
Also available online.
How to Make Hand-Drawn Maps: a Creative Guide with Tips, Tricks, and Projects. Helen Cann. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.
Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel. Jill K. Berry. Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, 2014.
Also available online.
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography. Katharine Harmon and Gayle Clemans. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
Personal Cartographies
Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers. Karen O’Rourke. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2013.
You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination. Katharine Harmon. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.