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 […]