French cartography & visual Narrative studio
Founded in 2009 by Alexandre Verhille and Sarah Tavernier, l'Atelier Cartographik is a cartographic and illustration studio exploring the relationship between place, image and story.
We believe every territory holds its own narrative. A landscape carries its history. A city has its rhythms. A region has its character. Our role is to observe, understand and translate these layers into maps and visual narratives that are both precise and deeply human.
Our work brings together cartographic expertise, illustration and graphic design. Research and fieldwork meet the freedom of drawing, allowing us to turn complex territories and knowledge into clear, distinctive and memorable visual experiences.
We collaborate with publishers, cultural institutions, destinations, museums, natural parks and private clients, creating maps, illustrated publications, visual identities and exhibitions. Whether interpreting an entire region or expressing the identity of a single place, we look for the visual language that makes it unmistakably its own.
Today, Atelier Cartographik is based in the Lot, on the foothills of the Massif Central, where a new landscape continues to inform our way of seeing and drawing the world.
Maps to inform. Drawings to remember. Stories to connect.
Leadership
Tavernier
Verhille
Tavernier
Sarah Tavernier brings together drawing, colour and paper in a practice shaped by architecture, landscape and crafts.
Her work is attentive to the way places are built, inhabited and transformed — to structures, textures and the quiet details that give a landscape its character. She moves naturally between the precise and the tactile, finding in colour and material a way to bring places and stories to life.
Literature and nature are enduring sources of inspiration. Her illustrations often carry something of both: a sense of observation, a love of detail and an invitation to slow down and look closer.
Sarah joined Atelier Cartographik in 2014.
Verhille
Alexandre Verhille works between drawing and geography, with a particular fascination for the stories hidden in places.
His practice combines the precision of cartography with the freedom of illustration. Landscapes, old maps, literature and travel all feed a visual language that is both meticulous and instinctive.
He is interested in what a map can do beyond showing the way: evoke a place, preserve a memory, reveal a character.
Based in the Lot, on the foothills of the Massif Central, he continues to explore the world through drawing.
