City Neighborhood Maps by Ork Posters

We’re moving the family to Chicago. I’m very excited, but have only been there twice and am entirely confounded by the endless neighborhoods (Las Vegas doesn’t really have “neighborhoods”. We have walled communities and shopping centers!). So I went looking for a map that would give me such a reference. Not just streets and municipalities, but actual neighborhoods by name. My – arduous! – search lead me to an article on PrairieMod (If you love Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie Style, you’ll love this blog) giving me ex.act.ly what I had been looking for: Ork Posters by Jennifer Beorkrem. As it happens, when Jennifer create her first poster, she had just moved to Chicago, could not find an aesthetically pleasing neighborhood map, so she created one. I am ordering mine, probably in the color seen below, as soon as I hit “Publish” for this article.

Since her success with the über cool graphical Chicago map, she has developed a whole series and actually had quit her day job to run this business. Go girl. Wouldn’t it be cool to create a wall featuring the maps of all the cities that you’ve lived in?

You can presently order your neighborhood poster online for the following cities: Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, LA, NYC, Philadelphia (pre-order), Portland, San Fran, Seattle, DC and Toronto (Richard Florida would be happy). Go here.