Tag: Map

Categories / Art and Photography

An East London Companion – new retro-inspired map by Herb Lester Associates

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We have featured the previous vintage-style maps by Herb Lester Associates and if you liked those, we're pretty sure you'll love the new one, An East London Companion.

According to the folk behind this, a lot of time has been put into this particular project, a guide to East London shops, cafés, bars, pubs, butchers, bakers and even a candlestick maker. There are 99 entries in total, from an area stretching from Old Street to Hackney Wick. Some of those will be unfamiliar even to locals. Boi Gordo, Casa Mexico and Mama Vic’s are apparently all 'real finds', and while Labour And Wait, Present and Pizza East may be better known, they’re certainly deserving of a mention on the map.

It was designed and illustrated in east London, litho printed on recycled paper.  £4 gets you one. See over the page for a brief glimpse inside.

Find out more at the Herb Lester website

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Categories / Homeware

World Scratch Map from Urban Outfitters

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If you needed any other reason to get excited about travelling the world or to reminisce about your holidays, this scratch map from Urban Outfitters is it.

You can easily keep track of your travels as the continents are topped with a scratch-off foil surface, so you can show off the places you've visited while livening up your walls.  It's a good present to send to your jet setting friends but better yet, buy one yourself for a fun and quirky way to decorate your house.

Get your own from Urban Outfitters online for the bargain price of £20.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Film and TV

The London Underground Film Map by BFI and TFL

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Back in January, we featured a set of homewards and gifts based on the  London Underground Film Map, everything from a travel wallet to a set of placentas. But you can aso get the actual London Underground Film Map by BFI and TFL too.

As we said last time, this is a unique reinterpretation of the famous London Underground Map with all the station names changed to represent the past 70 years of films shot on location at or near London Underground Stations. If you're a film fan, it's a dream.

The finished item is sized at 100 x 70cm, selling for £9.95.

Find out more at the BFI website

Categories / Art and Photography, Travel

Where The Sidewalk Ends: How to find old New York vintage-style map by Herb Lester Associates

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Remember this really cool London Print by Jim Datz at Pedlars? Well, the same artist is behind the latest Herb Lester Associates vintage-style map, going by the name of Where The Sidewalk Ends: How to find old New York.

Yes, following on from the likes of the 1960s London, You Are Here and May We Help You? maps, this is the firsr trip outside the Uk, with Datz providing the vintage-style imagery for what's described as 'a guide to the New York you’ve always wanted to see but feared might have disappeared for good'.

Expect Edward Hopper diners and down-at-heel dive bars, overstocked grocery stores and mountainous pastrami sandwiches. From Patsy’s Pizzeria in Harlem, to the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown, taking in along the way Katz's, the '21' Club and McSorley's Old Ale House to name just a few places. It is A3 (297x420mm) folded to A6 (105x148mm), and litho printed on recycled paper. Price? Just £3.

Find out more at the Herb Lester website

Categories / Homeware

The World Dinner Plates

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Recently added to the Made in Design website is the series of The World Dinner Plates.

 Each plate features a detail from a map of a world city. As well as the street names, each one shows the famous landmark in the style of each particular building in gold. Choose from London, Paris, Rome, New York, Venice or Tokyo.

The plates cost £22.20 each from Made in Design.

Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors

Josef Frank world map cushion

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Josef frank mapHere's something a little unusual for your home. A cushion featuring a world map designed by Josef Frank. 

Frank was one of the founders of the Vienna School of Architecture before emigrating to Sweden in 1933 where he became one of the most prestigious designers in the company Svenskt Tenn. It's Svenskt Tenn who have produced this cushion, based on one of his design from 1939. With no borders between the countries, it's a reaction to the political situation at the time and the fact Frank had fled Nazism in Austria. Using simple black and white, the design is a striking statement. 

The cushion is handprinted and costs 890 SEK, which works out to be roughly £80. 

Buy it online