Imaginary Cartography

MAPS ART WORK LIFE SOFTWARE

These pages contain many types of hand drawn maps of non-existent, but plausible places, which I call Imaginary Cartography. Map styles include political, historical, cultural, environmental, topological, urban maps and site plans. The goal is to create geographies like those of places on Earth, but entirely imaginary.

Urban

Historical

Political

Other Maps

I make things in several media, besides drawing maps and coding software. In every media, I tend to certain patterns and methods. The linear and analytical contrasting the organic and emotional. Emergence and coincidence. Minimalism.

Photography

Music

Acrylic Paintings

Home Installations

Writing

Blog

Professional Biography

Resume

Joshua T. Minor is an imaginative product leader with a solid technical foundation. He leads multi-disciplinary teams to deliver compelling experiences that meet real user needs and have impact. Applying collaborative processes with deep empathy, Josh ships software that meets business goals, but also builds up the systems and teams that power them. Josh has been the product leader at successfully funded and profitably acquired start-up companies. Products he conceived or managed have delivered millions of dollars in revenue, served millions of monthly users, and garnered positive media and satisfied user reviews. His work at Wikimedia earned the Wikipedia app an iTunes Editor’s Choice award.

Besides being a product leader, Josh has been a Computational Linguist, Developer Evangelist, STEM camp counselor, AI technology marketer, trouble maker, planetarian, and stranger with candy, among other things. He also makes his own apps and websites, draws maps of imaginary places, takes photos and makes music in his spare time. Josh holds an MA in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington. He earned his BA in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Pomona College.

He is currently the Product Manager for the Wikipedia app for iOS at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Jiko Kanri

For more on my thoughts and experience with software Product Management please visit my semi-serious fake non-profit Jiko Kanri dot Org and/or check out the short essays I have published on the subject.

Connect

To connect about my work or business opportunities, please visit my LinkedIn profile, or email me here.

Howdy. Welcome to my personal website. In 1998 I coined the term Imaginary Cartography to describe my hobby of drawing maps of imaginary places. But I also use it for this, my home on the world wide web. It serves as the intersection of my web presence, and presents a range of my handiwork. You can contact me by email here.

My Profile Git at me Contributor Page (Unused) @jtminor

Mueic

Attempt 2 - Asian Ensemble

Farewell to Arps

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Leviathan

Panic

Check out my projects for iOS and web browsers:

Fill in the Lulz for iOS

WordMap for iOS

Cat Gif Cube for Browsers

Puff the Magic Bytecode for Browsers

The Way of the Pattern

The sacred text of my imaginary religion. It combines concepts from philosophy, science and various religions remixed. A postmodern mythopoeic hypertext canon.

Response (Long Form)

A prose poem memoir of my 20's, from 2000 to 2010, as I graduated college, moved many times, fell in love, lost my friend and survived silicon valley startups.

The Quartered Tales

Four connected young adult short stories and some world building material, including a detailed interactive map.

The Scroll Banks of Illa~Lali~Barrios

A world-building text, based around an interactive map and some fictional non-fiction about a city with a lot of libraries and archives.

Modern Art

Architecture

Vistas

Nature