For over a decade, Dex has been creating obsessively detailed typographic maps of London — celebrating the capital's credentials as one of the world's most iconic, cinematic and creative cities. Its legendary literary heritage. Its deep-down music cool. Its place on the world's greatest screens.
What began in 2012 with a single literary map grew into a body of work charting London's novels, films, musicians, streets, pubs, animals and bridges. Each map a labour of love, taking up to a year to complete. In 2023 he made his last — The Culture Map of London, a greatest hits farewell tour that brought it all together.
The Culture Map of London
A chaotic love letter to London — and Dex's last ever London map. A greatest hits farewell tour bringing together the city's music scene, literary heritage and film industry on his biggest and densest print yet. Books and authors, songs and musicians, films and movie stars, all plotted where they are most famously associated.
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Music Map of London
A dense typographic map jamming to the sound of London's rich musical heritage. Discover places made famous in song, iconic recording studios, famous album covers, and the places musicians were born, gigged, lived it up — and occasionally didn't make it. Nine months of agonisingly detailed typography and research went into this.
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London Film Map
An intricate hand-crafted typographic map swarming with film titles, actors and directors, plotted where they most made their mark. Featuring London's most iconic picture houses, film studios and red carpet locations. A celebration of the capital's credentials as one of the world's greatest cinematic cities.
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Literary London Map
The original. A map of London featuring characters from the pages of over 250 novels — the famous and the infamous, the well-known and the brilliantly named. Each character plotted in the corners of the city they most liked to roam or chose to call home, sometimes at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
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Storylines
London's iconic tube map, transformed into a journey through genres of literature. The Northern Line becomes the Horror Line. The Bakerloo Line — running past Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street — becomes Crime & Mystery. The Hammersmith & City becomes Romance. Stations on intersecting lines get a sub-genre crossover.
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Animals of London
An illustrated typographic map packed with creatures great and small — plotting all the places you can find London's furry, feathery and scaly friends, including zoos, parks, farms and museums. Animals from novels and history books, famous pets and escaped tigers, chimpanzees and eagles. Dog libraries, cat emporiums, hedgehog graffiti. And over a hundred dalmatians.
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Pubs of Literary London
A guide to the pubs where fictional characters drank, the clubs authors belonged to, the smoking holes and opium parlours, the high and the low. All the places notorious characters gathered to plot, scheme and make merry — alongside the paparazzi's favourite stakeouts and the actors who brought the stories to life.
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Twenty Bridges
"Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Wanted to know what the River knew."
Hand-crafted typographic art featuring the opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's The River's Tale, formed in the shape of the Thames, with all the relevant bridges plotted in position.
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Typographic Street Map of Central London
A dense, painstakingly intricate and mostly accurate hand-crafted type map of central London — a whole year in the making. Every road, street, back alley and cul-de-sac. Designed to actually be navigable. Find the road you live on, the street you hang out in, or the patch you're itching to move to.
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