Amici is a little Italian delicatessen cafe near East Finchley tube station. If you are nearby I highly recommend it. The ceiling is bedecked with dozens of sports shirts, mainly football and cycling. I spotted this cycling top from the Giro tour of Italy with a map on the front […]
Maps in the Wild
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Raf sent us this wine bottle with contour lines from the Montsant region of Spain. Apparently it is “A blend of Grenache with about everything else allowed in Monstsant including Carignan, Merlot, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Aromas of jammy dark fruit and prunes, a distinct earthy almost pencil lead scent, […]
Alex Code of Line 45 sent us these pics from the Lakenland Sculpture Park ” I had some map sightings on a recent vacation in Michigan’s upper peninsula.There’s a quirky and fun sculpture park called Lakenenland (https://www.lakenenland.com/) East of Marquette, Michigan that features a number of maps and a decent amount of […]
Henrique Köhler sent us this stunning creation by Katrin Rodegast. “ETH Zurich asked me to create human organs made of Zurich city maps. All organs were used for the ETH’s corporate magazine “Globe” as well as for advertising.” https://www.katrinrodegast.de/work/eth-zurich/
Andrew Newman sent us this old conservation map at Scratchy Bottom “I found this very old MAFF conservation walks map at the entrance to Scratchy Bottom. A path heading inland from the South West Coastal Path near Durdle Door Dorset.” It may be a map of a conservation walk but […]
On Wednesday evening I went along to the Argent office in Kings Cross for the Longitude Space event run by co-editor Ken Field and his colleagues Chris Wesson and Ben Flanagan. Argent are a property developer who are responsible for the regeneration of the Kings Cross area amongst other projects. […]
Tom Armitage sent me this cover by the band Saint Etienne who I had not heard of. “The album’s cover art was designed by Manchester art collective Dorothy. Band member Bob Stanley explained, “They had done this map of a fictional area with all these road names, which were songs. I just got in […]
When I was young you used to see these Michelin maps all over the place, particularly outside garages. Nowadays there aren’t many around. Andrew Newman spotted this old and rusty map at Much Wenlock in Shropshire.
Paul Naylor spotted this Map Man in a bookshop window in Hay-on-Wye “Da da da da da da da da MAPMAN! Spotted at #hayonwye #mapman #maps #cartography”
Luke Harvey spotted this map on the cover of the Metro, London’s free morning paper available on the Underground (July 18th 2019). Apparently the average commute to work in London takes 74 minutes, the map shows some alternative destinations that you could choose instead of going to work. Normally I […]