Thanks to the Chairman of CASA, Prof Michael Batty, for tipping me off about this map of Olympic Venues in London, created by Katherine Baxter
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Mike Hall’s London Boroughs
Mike Hall, illustrator and designer, has been painstakingly creating large poster maps of each of the London boroughs, largely by hand. Each map has a
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Recce
Recce is an iPhone app which locates you on a map and shows you various POIs (points of interest) on demand such as local coffee
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Mind the Map: A Map by Macdonald Gill
This is an extract of a map produced in 1928 for London Transport by Macdonald Gill. He produced many maps in this “flowery” style, including
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Jenni Sparks: Hand-Drawn Map of London
This wonderful map (above is just an extract) has been drawn by artist & illustrator Jenni Sparks. It’s a hand-drawn map of central and inner-city
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Mind The Map: The Land of Hopeful Commuters
The Mind the Map exhibition, at the London Transport Museum, doesn’t only feature historic maps, such as Beck’s “joke map” that we covered before. This
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A Guide to London 1908
The same day that James received a historic picture map of London that we eventually dated to around 1908, mainly based on the appearance of
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Mind the Map: Circuit Diagram
A major new exhibition on mapping the London Underground – Mind the Map – opened last week at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Mapping
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Tube Map Sticky Tape!
Now this is just excellent – it’s a roll of tape with a custom-designed map of the London Underground (and DLR & Overground) on it.
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New Olympic Park Map
We featured the first official Olympic Park map at the beginning of the year, and it has already received an update which now includes pictures
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Stamen Design’s Watercolour Map
Stamen Design are a bespoke design and technology company based in San Francisco. They have a reputation for creating wonderful looking maps, often with OpenStreetMap
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London Blitz Map
The image above is a photo of part of a large map of London, created just after the Second World War and showing buildings that
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