Santa’s Lap: Typographic Maps Of London
Posters and screenprints of the capital in words.
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Santa’s Lap: Illustrated Maps Of London Boroughs
Hackney, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets.
London Boroughs Depicted In Beautiful ‘Sweet View’ Prints
Residents of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster…here’s something for your wall.
Top 10 Things To Do In The Borough Of Brent
Continuing our tour of the capital’s boroughs, guest blogger Juliet Kinsman picks out her highlights of Brent.
Mapped: How The Cuts Will Hit London’s Councils
This colour-coded map above shows the estimated change in revenue spending power for each council in 2011/12. As the cluster of red segments show, the East End seems to be hit particularly hard.
London Boroughs According To Google Image Search
What do a vintage motorbike, the coiner of the phrase ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ and a gay porno actor have in common? They’re all top hits when searching for London boroughs on Google image search.
Book Review: 33 East / West
Smashing idea, this: a double compendium of 33 short stories, each based on a London Borough. The collection is split across two volumes, which ignore the Thames as usual-divider and instead split the capital into East and West moieties. The result is a hotchpotch of …
What Is A Kidnapping Hot Spot Not?
glamour, grit and shiny shiny cars Now then, the capital’s Kidnapping Statistics – one area that this Londonista doesn’t normally bone up about at the kitchen table on a Sunday morning. The headline figure is that, so far this year, 315 cases of kidnapping have …
More Summer Of Local Love
A sneak preview of LIFT’s Shoreditch Festival Parade plans Last week we highlighted some of the brilliant local festivals going on around the boroughs this summer and we got some great tip offs in response, telling us about even more great happenings that hadn’t yet …
The Summer Of Local Love
Crowd at Lambeth Country Fair 2007 by doodledub, with thanks Local festivals are big news this summer. Wandsworth had a heritage festival throughout June, Camberwell Arts Festival started with a park party and finishes today and we’ll be bringing you some spectacular photos of Greenwich …
Preview: Buy a London Borough
In the late 90s, I knew a bloke who cut up an A-Z, and wallpapered the hall of his flat with the pages. It was great for checking where you were headed before popping out to meet someone. Artist Stephen Walter’s gone a step further, …
