More than a map. A work of place and memory.
Each work brings natural and man-made elements together in a richly detailed depiction of a real place, meticulously drawn to read cohesively at a distance and reveal elegant detail up close.
Original studio artworks ·Made to order ·South African shipping &handling included
My cartographic artworks celebrate places, not just coordinates. Special places are memory, longing, and sometimes more: an identity, or a home.
Find your place
14 works, each covering a real region at full cartographic detail. Sizes and formats come later; start with the ground you know.
South Africa
Cape Town & Winelands
South Africa
A1 Edition · R 1 695
Durban to Berg
South Africa
A1 Edition · R 1 695
Garden Route & Little Karoo
South Africa
A1 Edition · R 1 695
Gauteng & Environs
South Africa
A1 Edition · R 1 695
Kouga to Sunshine Coast
South Africa
A1 Edition · R 1 695
Eastern Cape
South Africa
Flagship Work · from R 4 995
Highveld
South Africa
Flagship Work · from R 4 995
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
Flagship Work · from R 4 995
Western Cape
South Africa
Flagship Work · from R 4 995
Australia
Cartography, drawn as artwork
My cartographic artworks are born from contemporary technical skill, but they resist being trapped on a screen. They ask to be seen at scale, where the world’s complexity, detail, and beauty can be felt again.
A conventional map is made to show a place: functional, efficiently reproduced, priced to be accessible. This work has a different purpose. The geography stays real and accurate, and it is composed as an artwork, with terrain, contours, water, vegetation, settlement, roads and infrastructure balanced so the whole holds together across a room while close inspection keeps giving more.
- Landscape
- Terrain, coastlines, waterways, landform and the natural systems that give a region its shape.
- Human geography
- Settlement, roads, infrastructure and movement, drawn at the same fidelity as the land beneath them.
- Composition
- Thousands of geographic elements resolved into one artwork that has to hold together on a wall and reward standing close to it.
Two sizes of the same series
A1 Editions
594 × 841 mm · 5 works · from R 1 695
Regional works at a size that suits a study, a reception area, a guest room, a small office or a gift. The same cartographic detail as the larger works, held in a format that fits an ordinary wall.
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Flagship Works
up to 1 829 × 1 041 mm · 9 works · from R 4 995
The studio's largest and most detailed works, made to carry a substantial wall: entrance halls, boardrooms, hospitality interiors, tasting rooms and any room where the artwork is meant to be the point. Offered in a Precision Edition on archival matte paper and a Gallery Edition on canvas.
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- Every work is produced on demand for the order it belongs to. Nothing sits in a warehouse.
- Giclée fine-art production
- Chosen because it holds hairline contours, typography and road networks, and keeps the smooth tonal shifts that carry relief, water and vegetation. Archival matte paper, or canvas at flagship size. Artwork is reproduced at full resolution, never redrawn or simplified.
- South African shipping & handling included
- Domestic shipping and protective packaging are included in the listed price. International shipping is quoted at cost before payment.
My cartographic artworks celebrate places, not just coordinates. Special places are memory, longing, and sometimes more: an identity, or a home.
My own connection begins in the Cape, at 34 degrees south, in South Africa’s southernmost region, where craggy mountains, wild ocean, verdant vineyards, and crystalline austral light meet in ways that feel both elemental and deeply emotional. That latitude became more than a location; it became a lighthouse to guide creativity home. Through 34° Design, I turn geography into art pieces that can live in homes, hotels, offices, and places of gathering.
These works are for people who want more than a map. They are for those who want to keep a place close. My cartographic artworks are born from contemporary technical skill, but they resist being trapped on a screen. They ask to be seen at scale, where the world’s complexity, detail, and beauty can be felt again.
— Andres de Wet · 34 Degrees Design · Cape Town, South Africa
Built from geography, composed by hand
Each 34 Degrees Design map begins with sourced geographic and elevation data. The terrain is built from GIS and NASA SRTM elevation data, processed in ArcGIS Pro and then developed by hand into its final expression. Contours, height ranges, hillshade and colour are not left as default GIS output. They are chosen and adjusted by eye so that the landscape reads as it does in life, from snow and pale high ground through brown rocky slopes to greener low-lying country and the transitions along the coast.
Further layers are then added individually from authoritative sources, including OpenStreetMap shapefiles and other GIS datasets: roads, highways, railways, settlements, water, boundaries, route markings and infrastructure. Each layer is balanced manually against terrain, hillshade and contours, so that no single layer overwhelms the composition, human infrastructure stays legible without flattening the landscape, and the terrain remains visible even across dense urban areas.
Typography, place names and route labels are researched and positioned by hand, placed for readability without obscuring the geographic and human patterns beneath them. Every work is resolved to read clearly both at close range and from across a room.
The original master artworks are produced at Flagship scale, approximately two metres across, and the A1 Editions are derived from those large-format originals. Each master takes weeks, and sometimes close to a month, to resolve, because placement, hierarchy, colour, terrain, line weight and annotation are curated by eye and by hand. The work is authored by the founder, an urban planner and cartographer.
The result is not an automated map export. It is an original cartographic artwork, built from geographic data through a deliberate design process, and reproduced as a giclée fine-art print.
The cartographic artwork itself is created without generative AI.
Find your place.
14 regions across South Africa, Australia and the Pacific Northwest, with the collection growing as new ground is drawn.