Prolific Brooklyn-based Australian illustrator James Gulliver Hancock—who you may know for his “All The Buildings in New York” project—has created a number of whimsical illustrated maps that are almost obsessively detailed.
His series of black and white Italian maps—featuring cities like Rome, Venice and Palermo—are dense with countless tiny buildings rendered in simple but beautiful 3D line drawing.
The maps are so meticulously done that the illustrator said that he “dreamt of little houses every night” while he was drawing the particularly complicated map of Venice, with its winding lanes and waterways.
Hancock has also done less detailed—but no less lovely—maps of districts and streets from other cities, including graphic-based personal maps of Williamsburg and Brooklyn.
View more his maps and other work over on his website.
[via James Gulliver Hancock]