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Fictional London

Posted on Friday 3 November 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

Jones & Sawers’ Map of Fictional London is an arty typographic map of central London, where the street and park names are replaced with the names of the novels, plays and other works that mention them. Over 600 such pieces are named on the map. The cartography is rather attractive, with pastel shades and the […]

Art, fictional, literary, story, typographic, typographical

London Boroughs Typographical Map

Posted on Thursday 29 September 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Typographical maps (maps made up of words representing each area, which form the map themselves) are a favourite of Mapping London and we featured a lovely example earlier this year. It is a lovely print but it had one problem – it only featured the central area of London. Lots of interesting places in Zone […]

Art, boroughs, Dani Loureiro, GLP, great little place, great little prints, letters, print, typographic, typographical

Typographical Map of London

Posted on Friday 5 February 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

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 form to show the city’s structure in a novel way. We really like the way the artist has been careful in their choice, and number, of colours, these add significantly […]

Art, Fonte, fonts, Joao Fonte, print, typographic, typographical, words