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Where Lines Meet Memory — The Wanderer Maps™ by Cha

Cha’s Wanderer Maps collection — minimalist vintage city map posters, designed with soft lines and aged texture, symbolising the meeting of art and cartography.

Long before GPS screens and satellite views, explorers charted the world with ink, paper, and imagination. The Wanderer Maps™ by Cha bring back that sense of wonder — minimalist, vintage-style city maps that turn geography into emotion. Each one is a modern heir to the art of cartography, where every line tells a story.

Hang a Keepsake of Your Favourite City

Clean lines, soft vintage tones, and a touch of aged paper texture: The Wanderer Maps™ are designed to blend nostalgia with elegance. Whether it’s your hometown, the city where you fell in love, or a dream destination, each map celebrates the places that made you who you are.

Among the favourites are the Oakland Map, the Jaipur Map, the Bangkok Map, and the Hollywood Map — timeless pieces that bring your travels to the wall.

Your Own City, Your Own Story

If your favourite city isn’t part of the collection yet, Cha can design a custom map poster from your exact coordinates. Using OpenStreetMap data as a base, she refines every detail by hand — tracing coastlines, streets, and rivers with the care of an artist and the precision of a cartographer.

Three vintage effects available for personalised city maps by Cha for The Wanderer Maps collection

Each map can be slightly personalised — choosing your preferred vintage effect, line style, or tone — to fit your home’s atmosphere. The result: a design that’s minimalist yet full of soul, unique to your journey.

Did You Know?

The word “map” comes from the Latin mappa, meaning cloth or napkin — because early maps were drawn on fabric that sailors could fold and carry. Treasure maps, first popularised in 19th-century adventure novels, helped romanticise this ancient art. Today, The Wanderer Maps™ echo that same spirit of discovery — capturing the thrill of finding your place in the world.

Illustration of Cha’s artistic process creating a custom Wanderer Map from vintage cartographic data

From Cartography to Art

The Wanderer Maps™ are printed on museum-quality fine art paper using 12-colour giclée printing — ensuring rich details and long-lasting colours. Each map is part of a limited edition of 300 prints, made to order and shipped worldwide in eco-friendly tubes.

Because maps aren’t just guides — they’re keepsakes of who we are and where we’ve been.

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