I’ve seen maps of food locations in London before, but not one actually made of food. Food 4 Thought, created by artist Ali Zaidi a
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London’s Canals & Rivers
These attractive hand-drawn maps have been produced for a pocket guide “London’s Canals & Rivers” published by the Canal & River Trust by illustrator and
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Steel Tube Map
The tube map is almost certainly London’s most widely produced and collected map, with many millions of the pocket version being issued for free every
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Dear Data – My London
This is one of the many data visualisation and design postcards that Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi sent each other of the course of a
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The Map in the Shard
The Shard, London’s tallest building, has a viewing platform at the top, the The View from the Shard. To access the platform, you use two
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Locating London’s Past
As an update to our previous feature on a replica map set of the John Rocque eighteenth century map of London, we feature the Locating
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Winding Streets
Here’s an attractive map commissioned by The Watch Gallery to highlight some of the key places in London, in the development of timekeeping. From the
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Punk London
The latest pocket guide and fold-out map from boutique urban cartographers Herb Lester is “Punk London“, celebrating 40 years since the punk movement of the
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Graphic Watercolour Map
Here’s a lovely looking artistic map of London. Created by Ben Grib in a “watercolour” style and produced as a print on “natural” textured art
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Argotopolis
Argotopolis is a map of London slang, created by Adam Dant (cartographer) and Jonathon Green (lexicographer). At first glance it looks like an ornate tree,
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Typographical Map of London
The Typographical Map of London, created by artist Joao Fonte, shows central London as a collection of symbols and words, arranged in a topologically representative
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Crossrail Station Footprints
Crossrail is a massive new railway that is due to open towards the end of the decade. It’s underground in central London, so largely unseen
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