This attractive hand-drawn map, by Adam Dant, is of the coffee houses of the City of London in the 1700s. Adam uses the gradual separation
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Canalology
Canalology is a short “festival of contemporary art of the hidden arteries of our city” which is organised by POST and takes place on Saturday
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Anglo-Saxon London
Earlier this week I did a “map swap” with Matt Brown, editor of Londonist, the popular London website. This lovely hand-drawn map, created by Matt
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Journey to the Heart of East London
We are big fans of maps based on a circle and of Adam Dant’s work so this map, which combines the two, is a real
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Maps of Shoreditch Past & Future by Adam Dant
Today, Mapping London brings you not one, but eight maps from prolific cartographer/artist Adam Dant, via the excellent hyper-local blog Spitalfields Life. Firstly, Stories of
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Simplifying London’s Network – “Mappi Lundi”, A Hand Drawn Map
Mappa Lundi is a hand-drawn map of central London which simplifies the street network, districts, parks and tourist attractions into a simple, pseudo-grid like structure.
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Anthropocene Exhibition
Stephen Walter, most famous for his “Hub” map of London, a fantastically detailed hand drawn map of London with a distinctive repeating style and thousands
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Stephen Walter’s Hub Map of London
The above is just a small extract from Stephen Walter’s “Hub” Map of London, a hand-drawn map of painstaking detail, drawn during 2007-8. You can
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A Map for the Diamond Jubilee
It’s lovely to see a brand new hand-drawn map of London in this age of computer-generated graphics. This one has been produced by Michael Hill
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