This delightful, colourful piece of cartography, is the first map by illustrator, limerick-creator and Walthamstow resident Angry Dan. The piece is a 60cm x 60cm ..read more

We’ve long liked temporary “parade” sculpture trails in London – they make exploring a neighbourhood even more interesting, if around the corner is one of ..read more

The Illuminated River is a long-term LED light installation on a number of bridges spanning the Thames in central London. At 9:30pm each night, various ..read more

It’s very hot in London today, and tomorrow. It’s best not to be out and about at all, but if you need to be in London, there are some places which may be cooler than others – public venues with air conditioning, some tubes/trains (if running), and also simply shaded spaces beside water or in ..read more

The new map is the latest in a long line in attractively packaged, specialist maps from Blue Crow Media which highlight the locations of a single feature of London on a bepoke basemap and guide – be it notable trees, Brutalist buildings or in this case, alleyways. The maps is folded into A5, held in ..read more

The fourth book in a series by author/cartographer David Fathers, Diverse London takes forward the three previous books (focusing on rivers and gruesome history) by describing and illustrating 20 guided walks through London’s current and historically multicultural districts. Diverse London continues the excellent format where the walk are illustrated with bespoke colour maps, which include ..read more

Just in time for Christmas, here’s a central London alternative tube map that has been made by ICON Printing, a custom apparel design firm. It highlights shops near the marked stations that have known strong environmental, sustainable and socially responsible credentials. It’s quite a nice bit of cartography – all the regular tube line colours ..read more

London’s railway terminus stations are major landmarks in the inner city – they form a ring around the city’s core are used by many, these days, not just to catch a train, but to meet, shop and walk through. A new book, “London’s Great Railway Stations” has been published this month. Written by transport historian ..read more

Central London has long been a spatial challenge for tourists and others unfamiliar with it. It’s very big, and most of it isn’t built on an easily understandable grid pattern. Quirks and kinks in streets built back in Roman times, persist to the modern day. The tube network is never far away from you when ..read more

From the desk of Blue Crow Media (we’ve featured several of their maps before) comes this new map of London, focusing on Postmodernism in the capital. What do they mean by postmodern? Basically, buildings with a distinctive architecture style following on from the spectacular (and divisive) concrete Brutalism buildings of the 1960s. The map is ..read more