Category: 1970s

Smiley’s London

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This map created by illustrator Mike Hall (who we’ve featured before) for Penguin Books, shows the locations in London that featured in John le Carré’s George Smiley spy novels. This is a lovely map, drawn from scratch and using a distinctive yellow/green and pastel blue pastel colour palette that evokes classic literary works and hand-printed […]

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1960s, 1970s, Art, Book, George Smiley, Hall, John le Carré, Mike Hall, novel, Penguin, Smiley, Spy

Punk London

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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 1970s, by mapping key locations in central London where it happened. Mike Haddad is the carrtographer/designer. As with all Herb Lester maps it’s a proper, custom made and litho-printed map, […]

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1970s, A3, Events, fold-out, grey, Herb Lester, Historic, Mike Haddad, music, Paul Gorman, pink, pocket, punk, scene