Maps on Bottles!
Maps appear everywhere! I only recently featured the Craft Brewery Map of London so I was pleased to discover today that one of the featured […]
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Katherine Baxter Maps
The artist Katherine Baxter, who specialises in hand-drawn isometric generalised maps, particular of cities, has a solo exhibition “Mapmaker”, at the Coninsgby Gallery in Tottenham […]
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The Evolution of London’s Streets
This animation shows how the roads in the London area formed, from Roman times through the industrial revolution and to the modern day. London’s boundary […]
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A Food Tour Map for East London
We were sent this lovely looking bespoke map by Adam Groffman, who runs regular eating tours in East London. Participants receive a paper copy of […]
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The London Marathon Medal
Maps of London appear in all sorts of unexpected places and on all kinds of objects. This year’s London Marathon finishers’ medal had an expected […]
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The Mapping London Christmas List 2013
Here’s some of our favourite maps we’ve reviewed over last 12 months, and where you can buy them: Running with Crayons is a fantastic name […]
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Thames Estuary Airport Schemes
Almost all the maps we have featured to date have fallen neatly within the M25 but, of course, London’s influence extends well beyond this […]
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UCL Launchbox
UCL has opened a “pop-up” shop called Launchbox in Box Park Shoreditch which is designed to showcase “the hottest new designs emerging from UCL’s creative scene”. Ollie and I […]
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The Big Egg Hunt Maps
I somehow missed, until now, this set of oblique-projected maps of popular parts of central London (thanks Chris Pearson for the tip!) They were produced […]
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London Christmas Map
This is a view from the LondonTown Christmas Map. While it is essentially just “pins on a map” map with a number of icons relating […]
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Crossrail’s Live Tunnel Boring Machine Map
Crossrail are currently building a new deep-level railway line right across the heart of London. The mega-project recently launched the first two of their tunnel […]
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A-Z London 2012 Venues Atlas
The A-Z is probably the most famous London Atlas – it’s been around for over 75 years, and has been updated ever since. The company […]
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