Marcel Winatschek

Maps Worth Keeping

Berlin’s standard transit map is everywhere—the BVG one that hangs in every apartment, half-destroyed from parties, the thing you glance at for directions and then ignore. It works, which is why nobody needs to look at it twice.

Jenni Sparks made something different. A handdrawn map with small details woven through it, the kind that make you stop and actually look, that mean something to someone who knows the city.

That’s the line between something functional and something worth keeping on your wall. The difference between a map you consult and one you return to.