Hand Made Maps Ltd is a commercial artwork studio, formed in 1991, specializing in illustrated maps. The site displays a multiplicity of styles and approaches – this variety has become the Hand Made Maps trademark. Essentially illustrators rather than cartographers, the studio sees itself as part of a tradition of illustrated maps that goes back to the beginning of printing and earlier. Being ‘hand-made’, the emphasis in the work is on drawing and lettering, although since 1997 digital techniques have increasingly been incorporated into the process.