This page highlights new articles, media interviews, dates for your diary, and other events and announcements.
Fourth Schematic Mapping Workshop
EIVP, Paris: See the
workshop website for details of programme,
registration, and organisation. As before, this event will showcase
research on a wide variety of topics relevant to schematic mapping.
Provisional title: Do we still need maps?
I will be talking about why I think maps are still important in today’s computer-journey-planning world and how my London Circles 2024 map plays a role in persuading people to make more use of them.
Book tickets here.
NB these are just holding links, correct links will be posted as soon as event details are made public
London exhibition at The Map House
Mapping the Tube: 1863–2023.
The Map House presents Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023 exploring
the evolution of London’s Tube system and the iconic London Underground map over 160 years. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see and purchase hand-drawn and annotated manuscripts by Harry Beck on the 50th anniversary of his death.
I am delighted to announce that my own London Circles Map 2024 will feature amongst the exhibits.
This is the first time it will be displayed in public and it will be a rare privilege for my work to be showcased alongside Henry Beck and Macdonald Gill.
Objective and Subjective Methods for Evaluating the Usability of Schematic Maps:
The Case Against Informal Expert Assessments.
An exploration of the validity of informal expert judgments of map usability.
Download the open access manuscript from here.
The Cartographic Journal: Beck at 90 years.
A special issue of the journal celebrating the 90th anniversary of the first publication
of Henry Beck’s London Underground diagram. Guest-edited by myself, the refereed papers explore a wide variety of issues central to schematic maps.
These are short articles first published on LinkedIn and cover a range
of topics including map design, Artificial Intelligence, and UX research methodology.
View the full listing here.
My Showcase page is reorganised with a new Projects section to co-ordinate highlights of my research, design, and teaching.
This is the 100th and final edition
Map of the Month goes back to first principles for New York City.
In Circles Round the Essex Sunshine Coast is now available,
limited to 120 signed copies, recommended A2 size (but
all others available). Order copies direct here.
Four Seasons on the Essex Sunshine Coast is now available, limited to 120 signed copies, in three sizes. Download the flyer here and order copies direct here.
PS908 Research Methods & Statistics
Lectures for academic year 2020-2021 available online
PS118 Applied Psychology
Lectures for academic year 2020-2021 available online
PS416 Personality & Individual Differences
Lectures for academic year 2020-2021 available online
PS452 Intelligent Behavior
Lectures for academic year 2019-2020 available online
PS499 Transit Maps: Past, Present & Future
Lectures from academic year 2018-2019 available online
Airline Maps: A Century of art and design
The story of 20th Century civil aviation,
advertising, and design told by maps.
Modernism meets maps worldwide in the 1930s.
Tube Map Travels: Imitations, adaptations and explorations worldwide
A 96 page full colour exploration of the twilight world of
unofficial Underground maps.
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
A 144 page full colour celebration of a century of astonishing
airline cartography, USA/UK simultaneous release.