This map shows a hybridism of observational drawing and cartographic code. It is inspired by the old Portulan charts, in which the rose of the winds marks the location of the navigator / observer towards the landscape. The observer in the center of the map is framed by a 360 degree panorama of the city landscape, offering a direct relationship between the map and the surrounding landscape, stimulating the sense of place. Reading upside down, breaking the convention of North in the top, allows to better know the world.

José Miguel is a portuguese designer, is passionate about good food and good wines, also obsessed with drawing. Interested in drawing since an early age. His mother always told, he used to draw on the sheets of the bed. In his landscape drawing view e questions whether each place has a genius loci that demands for its own representation. A map “tailored to the body of places”.

São João da Madeira is one of the five municipalities of Portugal with a single parish. A Portuguese city in the Porto Metropolitan area. The companies of the city are mostly dedicated to the production of leather shoes. It is located in the North of Portugal, in the Sub-region of Entre Douro e Vouga, with approximately 21 713 inhabitants (2011). It is the smallest Portuguese municipality, with only 8.11 km² of area, which gives it a high population density: 2,601.97 hab / km². http://http://www.fsjm.pt/