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London Mapped Jigsaw Puzzle

Posted on Wednesday 28 March 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

Mapping London has long enjoyed Stephen Walter’s fabulously detailed, painstakingly created pencil-sketch maps of London, and now one of his most famous works, The Island, has been made into a jigsaw puzzle. It was launched late last year by publishers Prestel UK and comes as a 500-piece work. The team at Mapping London Towers likes […]

Art, black and white, Game, Island, jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle, pencil, puzzle, sketch, Stephen Walter, The Island, Walter

Citee Map Shirt

Posted on Friday 10 November 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

Citee has been producing technical T-shirts featuring maps of various cities around the world, including London, for the last year. They are currently crowdfunding for a new black version of the T-shirts, with the map detail overlaid in greys and whites. Citee were kind enough to send a sample of their existing London design, which […]

Apparel, black and white, clothes, OpenStreetMap, OSM, shirt, T-shirt, wear

The Woodcut Map: Civitas Londinum

Posted on Wednesday 7 June 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

We normally feature “modern” maps on Mapping London, however this map despite being also known as the Map of Early Modern London, is certainly not new. It was first printed from wood blocks in 1561, the extracts here are from a 1633 edition which has been digitised at a very high resolution as part of […]

1561, 1633, agas, black and white, Historic, woodcut

Fuller’s London Town

Posted on Friday 18 September 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

Artist Gareth J Wood, aka Fuller, unveiled this striking black-and-weight map-based artwork over London, yesterday. The work was started way back in 2005, and after a four-year pause, Fuller came back and completed the piece, which is well over a metre wide. The work, which can be seen alongside similar works for Bristol and Purbeck, […]

Art, black, black and white, black ink, Fuller, ink, London Town, pen, Wood