Maria Rabinky
Maria Rabinky was born 1959 in Saint-Petersburg, the “cultural hub” of Russia. She has a dual Master’s of Fine Arts degree in both architecture and visual arts from the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1982). After the Academy, she honed her skills as an architect and museum set designer.
Career
After moving to Richmond, VA in 1994, Maria continued to work in watercolors, drawing with pencil and ink, with an emphasis on architectural renderings, urban and country landscapes. She then extended her talents in traditional art into the electronic arts. As a mixed-media artist, she frequently merges both art forms in creating her illustrated maps and other illustration, to achieve the warmth of hand creations combined with the utility and flexibility of layers and PDFs needed for production and proofing. Maria Rabinky became a well-known map illustrator creating pictorial maps for various applications.
Gallery
References
1. Choate Rosemary Hall campus map: http://www.choate.edu/aboutchoate/pdf/mapwithkey.pdf
2. Georgian Court University campus map: http://www.georgian.edu/virtual_tour/campus_map.htm
3. Barry University campus map:http://www.barry.edu/about/locations/?source=google&places_barry_main_campus
4. Illustration for Mercer University magazine: http://www.mercer.edu/features/macon/
5. Gillette College Campus map: http://www.sheridan.edu/site/assetlibrary/common/maps/campus_map_gillette.pdf
6. NVTC's Techtopia Map 2010: http://www.nvtc.org/techtopia/2010Map/index.html
7. Budget Travel Magazine: http://www.budgettravel.com/feature/arizona-map,7058/
8. Win Country Santa Barbara: http://wincountryca.com/
9. Izaak Walton League of America “How to build a vernal pond”: http://www.iwla.org/index.php?ht=a/GetDocumentAction/i/1013
10.Wet 'n Wild Orlando Water Park Map: http://www.wetnwildorlando.com/map.php
11. The CSO Magazine article “Test Your Convergence”: http://books.google.com/books?id=BGAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=maria+rabinky&source=bl&ots=ntQxsBHJNX&sig=c2uo9nB4JZC4SCHG6HXNs5aMA4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gOlnT_S3Dafz0gHZ0_mOCQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBjg8#v=onepage&q=maria%20rabinky&f=false
12.The CSO Magazine article “The Art of Securing Pricelessness”: http://books.google.com/books?id=8F8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=maria+rabinky&source=bl&ots=8nB1MnQOIr&sig=1AUfLRJJbuYToFUCZbvpi6zAivQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gOlnT_S3Dafz0gHZ0_mOCQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBzg8#v=onepage&q=maria%20rabinky&f=false
13.GolfDigest Magazine: http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-tours-news/us-open/2008-06/gw20080606strege
14.List of illustrators (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illustrators)