Year of Tides makes one poster per place per year: every high and low tide, drawn so you can read it from across a room and still find today.
It started on an old farm in Dover, New Hampshire, a few miles up the river from Portsmouth Harbor. If you live near the water, you check the tide the way other people check the weather, and the tables you check it in are ugly. We wanted the whole year on the wall, exact to the minute, and we wanted it to be something you would hang because it was beautiful, not only because it was useful.
The data comes from NOAA's tide predictions for each station, the same predictions mariners use, plus the moon phases and the year's highest tides. Then we draw it. Currents turns each day into a small dial whose hands point to the hour of high water. Strokes paints every stretch of high water as a horizontal brushstroke, so the whole year braids into diagonals as the tide slips later each day.
Each poster is printed to order in the USA on heavyweight matte paper with archival pigment inks, and shipped rolled in a rigid tube or framed and ready to hang. A new edition comes out every autumn for the year ahead.
If your water is not here yet, tell us where it is. New stations are added in the order people ask for them.
These posters are for planning your year, not for navigation. Always consult official tide tables when it matters.