Currently on display on our gallery wall in the Stanfords Coffee House in our Covent Garden store, is a beautifully curated selection of Mike Hall’s maps.
The full collection of Mike Hall’s Retro London Boroughs are available to buy from Stanfords for £34 each.
These bold, colourful illustrated maps of London’s 32 boroughs and the City of London are inspired by colourful, modernist graphic design of the 1950s and 1960s.
Continue reading Mike Hall MapsLast night we welcomed the award winning team from Atlas of Imagined Cities, Matt Brown, Rhys B. Davies and Mike Hall to Stanfords for a fun filled evening.
Following the success of their Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award winning previous book Atlas Of Imagined Places, this new atlas looks specifically at cities.
From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo’s fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera’s Parisian lair to scenes from Grand Theft Auto in LA, this is an amazing atlas of imaginary locations in real-life cities around the world. Locations from film, TV, books, computer games and comics are ingeniously plotted on a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps.
Continue reading Author Talk: Atlas of Imagined Cities by Matt Brown, Rhys B. Davies and Mike HallAtlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput to Gotham City is a stunning map collection of invented geography and topography drawn from the world’s imagination.
The maps feature fictional buildings, towns, cities and countries plus mountains and rivers, oceans and seas. Ever wondered where the Bates Motel was based? Or Bedford Falls in It’s a Wonderful Life? The authors have taken years to research the likely geography of thousands of popular culture locations that have become almost real to us.
Here is an extract from the chapter on CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN by Matt Brown & Rhys B. Davies with maps by Mike Hall.
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