I was reading an article by BoingBoing pundit, SF author and copywonk Cory Doctorow in Make magazine the other day (I’m afraid that there’s only tiny snippet of the article available for free on-line.) He’d visited the Greenwich Maritime Museum, full of hundred-year-old sextants, and even older devices that people used to find their way [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Exhibitions'
Fletcher Retrospective
January 27th, 2007 No Comments
I’ll try and find a bit more time to write about this in full on another occasion, but for now, I feel I should note that if you live in London, then you really ought to try and make it to The Design Museum‘s retrospective on Alan Fletcher. For those that don’t know, Fletcher is [...]
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New Maps Of People
December 18th, 2006 No Comments
I spent a few hours this afternoon at the “London: A Life In Maps” exhibition at the British Library. Fascinating stuff, and I thoroughly recommend it. It’s a brilliant way to look at the history of London. It’s actually a slightly broader thing than it sounds, starting as it does with the earliest known depictions [...]
