Next in our exciting line-up of mapping projects is a commission with artist/cartographer Jeremy Wood. Jeremy uses GPS drawing to digitally trace his daily movements and journeys, creating beautifully expressive works of art. The Museum already has one of Jeremy’s works in its collection – My Ghost – in which his journeys throughout London from [...]
We’ve picked a fun poster this week by illustrator John Burningham. He was the creative genius behind over 60 illustrated books, but he actually started his career with poster commissions from London Transport. This poster was made to promote a book of walks which could be bought from Underground stations, Enquiry Offices and the Publicity [...]
I recently posted about London Transport Museum’s mapping project with artist Susan Stockwell. I’ve been receiving lots of ticket donations – thank you! We’re still keen to collect as many transport tickets as possible and Susan has put in a special request for international transport tickets, so do get in touch should you like to [...]
We now have our first completed Mind the Map artwork! London Transport Museum is commissioning a series of new artworks for the exhibition, including the Lost & Found project where by an artwork is created from lost or found transport maps and explores the theme of ‘journeys’. Paper artist Claire Brewster visited London Transport Museum [...]
Do you have a stash of old tickets at home? Would you like to contribute to an amazing new artwork that will become part of a major exhibition? London Transport Museum is working on an exciting new project with artist Susan Stockwell, who has been commissioned to create a map for next year’s exhibition, Mind [...]
After much discussion and debate we now have a new title for our Journeys 2012 exhibition! Mind the Map: inspiring art, design and cartography will draw on the Museum’s outstanding map collection to explore the theme of journeys. We’ll be including an incredible range of maps, from diagrammatic and decorative through to digital. The exhibition [...]
We’ve had 2 more sessions with Acton Community Forum, helping Omar and the group learn more about accessing the digital world. You can see photos from the session on Flickr here. Volunteer Jon Burnett came along to help out. Here’s his account… “The first task ahead of our intrepid digital experimenters was to use the [...]
On the 8-9th October London Transport Museum opened its doors to the public at its Museum Depot in Acton. Each year the Museum opens its collection up to the public for two weekends in March and October. Each weekend is themed, and this time the focus was on highlighting our Engineering collection. As part of the theme [...]
Preparations have been underway developing the project management plan for the carriage restoration. This important strand of work will dictate how the rebuild of Met 353 will be implemented; it has involved further research into the design of the carriage, identifying resources, assessing risks, refining costs and bringing togther the team who will be working [...]
This week’s poster is an artistic vision from 1926 of what London would look like 100 years later in 2026. The skies are full of futuristic skyscrapers and flying things. The enormous airship on the right is branded ‘OVERLAND LINE, LONDON – SYDNEY’. There is a London Bridge Air Depot and an AIRTAXI Ltd building. Beneath [...]
