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New: London Circles map 2024 updated with the latest Overground colours

London Circles Map v2

Completely redrawn to show the current London Underground network and associated lines, my London Circles map v2 is better than ever before, and more geographically accurate than the official standard
TfL journey planner!

Buy from my webshop: click here to go there directly. If you would prefer a poster with the Overground lines all shown in orange, as per the original release of this design in August, order a circles map poster
as normal and send me a separate email requesting the old colour.


New: Posters of Brick City maps now available

London Circles Map v2

In 2023 I exhibited my Edwardian Lego Underground station for the first time at the Great Western Brick Show. Of course, an Underground station needs a map of the network to show the minifigures the way, and so I designed an entire series, starting at 1908 to the present day. Laden with terrible puns, and representing designers such as Harry Brick and Paul Garbrick, a selection of these are now available to purchase. Buy from my webshop, you can click here to go there directly.


Max Roberts
Travel by public transport anywhere in the world,
and the chances are that sooner or later you will
encounter a map in which the routes have been
simplified and turned into a diagram. Schematic
maps
are widespread, and are intended to make
your life easier, but are they really designed as
effectively as possible to give maximum assistance?
Could some of them be improved? How can this be
achieved? The answers to these questions lie within
these web pages. Photograph by Reka Komoli.
Frank Lloyd Wright Map
On These Pages
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lectures, and course materials for my university teaching.
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