An overview of the work I carried out to produce the maps for the DK book Walking the Camino de Santiago , published January 2026. All hi-resolution map images are taken from promotional material supplied by DK. Any work in progress images are from archive and/or occasionally recreated. All opinions are my own and have no connection to the publishers.

Building a playlist for a road trip Midway through the Route 66 project, the senior designer put forward the great suggestion to include a Spotify playlist for the route. With music being such an integral part of long, cross-country drives this was immediately loved by all working on the book. I began to assemble a song list to 'stress test' the idea, mainly to see exactly what the music could be and how we could best share it. In the distant past a journey crossing the continent would have been at the mercy of AM radio - aided by all its crackles and interference. It wasn’t until the end of the 1960s and into the 1970s that the superior FM radio frequencies were opened up but these had short range and were found only in larger urban areas. Cassettes, CDs and iPods took the weight until the early 2010s when SiriusXM brought satellites to the car. Now it’s more likely a smart phone will be connected to an online and near infinite library. What is missed is the experience of the unpredictable, you never knew what was coming next and when a song was played it was for that moment, not to be rewound. It was music chosen by somebody else from a different part of the country with differing experiences and tastes. No wonder the good radio stations and DJs had such loyal followers, islands amidst the talk and religious programming. We wanted to become a radio station for the journey