City Street Maps Art

City Street Maps Art

Browse our collection of City Street Maps Art Pictures Posters and Prints for Worldwide Cities. This brand-new range comes anyway variety of eye-catching colours and can be customised in every aspect, we will happily create maps for any cities around the world if they aren’t already on the site and can make these in any colour schemes required.

About our City Street Maps Art collection

Our City Street Maps Art collection prints customised street-map art of any chosen city – hometown maps, wedding-venue maps, first-home suburb maps and travel-destination maps. Custom typography and colour palettes available. Featured artists include Michael Tompsett and Melanie Viola alongside our in-house street-map designs.

Common questions we get about street map prints

Two questions come up almost every week. The first: “Can you map my exact suburb, not just the city centre?” Yes — our custom map prints zoom to any address and centre on a chosen postcode or street corner. Send us the address in the order notes, and we’ll preview the framing before we print. The second: “How readable are the street names at print size?” On a 60×40 cm print the major roads and suburb labels are clearly legible from a normal viewing distance of about 1.5 m. Go up to 90×60 cm or 120×80 cm and you’ll be able to trace individual side streets, which is what wedding couples and first-home buyers usually want for a sentimental landmark detail.

How customers actually use these prints

The hometown gift is the most common use case. A Sydney harbour map for a friend who’s moved interstate, a Melbourne CBD print for a returning expat, or a Hobart map for someone retiring to the country — these go out of our Noosa workshop most weeks. Wedding-venue maps are the second most common use: couples often commemorate the suburb or laneway where the wedding was held, or the path the ceremony car took. We see a steady stream of orders from people marking a child’s birthplace too, often paired with a Personalised Star Chart for the same date. For office and corporate gifts, central-business-district map prints make a quiet, sophisticated leaving present that doesn’t feel cheap.

Colour schemes that work well

The most flexible palette is charcoal-on-cream — it suits almost every interior style and reads beautifully framed in oak or walnut. White-on-navy is a strong second choice for studies and home offices, particularly when paired with brass picture lights or a similar metallic accent. Couples often pick a colour pulled from their wedding scheme: sage and bone, dusty pink and slate, or a deep burgundy with off-white type. We can match almost any HEX code if you send it with your order. For nurseries, soft mustard or terracotta on cream is a current favourite and pairs naturally with our Floral and Botanical Wall Art range.

Care, longevity and shipping

Every street-map print uses our archival pigment inks, the same we use across the rest of the catalogue, with 75+ year colour fastness when hung out of harsh sunlight. Framed paper print orders come behind acid-free mat board and a clear acrylic glaze that handles transit and humidity better than glass. Stretched canvas pieces are gallery-wrapped over solid pine bars. Australia-wide shipping is tracked, metro deliveries land in 4 to 9 working days and regional addresses in 5 to 10. International orders ship from the production hub closest to the delivery address to keep transit shorter and reduce damage risk.

Mistakes to avoid when ordering a street map print

The most common one: ordering a map print at 40×30 cm when the buyer actually wants to see individual side streets — that size is fine for a landmark-only print but too small for genuine cartographic detail. Step up to 60×40 cm or larger. Second: matching the print to wall colour rather than to room mood. A charcoal-on-cream map looks washed out against a beige wall but sings on a deep navy or forest green. Third: forgetting to send the centring address in the order notes. Without it we centre on the city’s geographic middle, which may not be the meaningful spot for you. Fourth: choosing a frame that fights the print — heavy ornate frames overpower minimal map work; stick to clean black, oak or walnut for almost every scheme.

Pairing street maps with other prints

Map prints sit well alongside our Black and White Photography Art range — a Sydney street map next to a black-and-white Harbour Bridge photograph works for almost any modern living room. They also pair with our Typographic Word Art when you want a phrase that ties to the same place. For a more interpretive grouping, hang one street map alongside a Personalised Push Pin Map of the same region, building a layered geographic feature wall.

Choosing the right city, suburb and centring point

The most thoughtful map orders we ship aren’t of well-known city centres — they’re of personally significant places. A common request is centring on a single street corner where a couple first met, or on the suburb where a child took its first steps. Send us the address in the order notes, and we’ll preview the framing before printing. For Australian cities, popular landmarks include Sydney’s Circular Quay, Melbourne’s Federation Square, Brisbane’s South Bank, Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, Adelaide’s North Terrace, Hobart’s Salamanca Place, Darwin’s Mindil Beach, and Canberra’s parliamentary triangle. Internationally we ship a steady stream of London, Paris, New York, Tokyo and Berlin maps, often as expat-leaving gifts or first-trip-abroad commemorations. If your city isn’t in our standard catalogue, we’ll generate it on request — there’s no surcharge for unusual coordinates, just a 24 to 48 hour additional production window while our cartographer renders the file.

Typography choices and what they signal

The typeface used on a street-map print changes the entire mood of the piece. A clean modern sans-serif (Futura, Avenir, Gotham) reads as architectural and contemporary — best for studies, home offices, and modern living rooms. A traditional serif (Caslon, Garamond) signals heritage and works well for couples commemorating a wedding in a country town or for a leaving gift for someone moving overseas. A condensed bold sans-serif gives the print a transit-poster, industrial feel and pairs especially well with Tram Scrolls Bus Banners and Vintage Advertising Poster Prints from our range. For nurseries and kids’ rooms, we sometimes use a hand-drawn script for the city name to keep the print warm and personal. If you have a specific font preference, tell us in the order notes; if not, we’ll default to a clean modern sans-serif because it suits the broadest range of rooms.

Where map prints look best in your home

Home offices and studies are the most natural placement for a street-map print. The cartographic detail rewards close viewing, and the print becomes something you actively read rather than a piece of decoration that disappears into the background. Hallway and stairwell walls are the second most common placement, especially when ordered as a series — three or four prints of meaningful places hung in a vertical or horizontal line tell a small family history. For living rooms, a single large map (90×60 cm or 120×80 cm) above a sofa works well as a focal point, particularly when paired with a sectional in a neutral fabric. We see fewer orders for bedroom walls, but city-skyline-style maps suit master bedrooms in modern apartments where you want a quieter, more abstract feature than a photographic print. Children’s bedrooms suit hometown maps with the family’s street highlighted — kids love the idea of “their” street being on a map on their wall.

Bulk orders, corporate gifts and matching sets

Real-estate agencies, hotels, AirBnB property managers and corporate offices order map prints in matched sets fairly often. For a five-property holiday-rental portfolio, we can produce a coordinated set of suburb maps with consistent typography, colour and framing — a low-cost way to make every property feel branded. Corporate office gifts at year-end have become a steady part of our December run; the most common brief is a CBD map of the head-office city in matching frames, dispatched directly to recipient addresses around the country. We offer pricing breaks at five-print and ten-print orders, and we can hold the design files on record so future repeat orders match perfectly.

Sustainability and how we source materials

Every framed paper print uses FSC-certified paper sourced from sustainably managed forests, and the pine used for stretcher bars and frames comes from Australian and New Zealand plantation timber rather than tropical hardwood. Our pigment inks are water-based and certified low-VOC, which matters when prints are hung in bedrooms, nurseries and small enclosed offices. Packaging uses recyclable cardboard cornering and paper tape rather than plastic strapping, and the shipping cartons themselves can be re-used or recycled kerb-side. We’re working towards plastic-free packaging across the entire range by the end of next year. If you have specific environmental requirements for a commercial or office order — for example, you need a written statement on print provenance for a green-building accreditation — just ask and we’ll put it together.