About the Studio

A Cartography of Memory and Measure.

The Process

The work begins in field notes and sketches. Contours, landmarks, and textures are studied slowly, then redrawn in ink on tracing film.
Digital layers follow — subtle color, typography, scale— but always as extensions of the hand, not replacements for it.
The rhythm is always the same: first understanding, then measure, then memory.

The Studio Gang

Around the drawing table, there’s now a quiet kind of collaboration.
New digital instruments join the process — not to replace craft, but to clear the noise around it.
They test compositions, generate previews, and translate ideas into form faster, leaving more time for the ink, the thinking, and the human eye.
The result is a small studio that holds both tradition and technology —
in dialogue, not competition.

Back to the Mapmaker’s Table

Every finished map is a shared memory — of place, of craft, and of the hands, human and digital: those that shaped it, and those that carry it forward.

Work in progress — tracing film stage

Barcelona black & white detail

Barcelona colored detail

Every map begins between the hand and the world.
In the studio, that line becomes a quiet conversation — between observation and form, between a place and the way it wishes to be remembered.

deliaMAPS grew from that conversation: a studio devoted to measured drawing, where pencil and ink still meet paper first, and each map holds more than geography — it holds traces of how we walk, remember, and return.