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  • Place of origin:

    London, England (probably, made)

  • Date:

    2005 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Shrigley, David, born 1968 (artist)
    Platform for Art (commissioned by)
    Transport for London (publisher)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Offset lithography on paper

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Riikka Kuittinen

  • Museum number:

    E.411-2007

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level D, case FF, shelf 12

  • Image in copyright

This free pocket-sized tube map has a cover commissioned by Platform for Art for London Underground. To explore ideas about mapping and route-finding, the artist used the colours of the lines from the classic tube map devised by Henry Beck E.816-1979). David Shrigley drew the lines as a confused tangle, to be magically clarified and organised when one unfolds the map.

Platform for Art, London Underground's art programme, commissions artists to create work for the travel network. This continues London Transport's tradition of commissioning artists to create publicity material. As part of this programme, some artists were invited to create covers for the London Underground pocket map.

Physical description

Pocket map of the London Underground, which folds into three vertically, with an image on the front of a tangle of lines in the colours used to represent each of the London Underground lines.

Place of Origin

London, England (probably, made)

Date

2005 (made)

Artist/maker

Shrigley, David, born 1968 (artist)
Platform for Art (commissioned by)
Transport for London (publisher)

Materials and Techniques

Offset lithography on paper

Marks and inscriptions

London Underground
Tube map
October 2005
MAYOR / OF LONDON
Transport for London
[London Underground logo]

Dimensions

Height: 14.5 cm, Width: 7 cm folded

Descriptive line

Pocket tube map with cover designed by David Shrigley; United Kingdom, 2005

Exhibition History

Mapping the Imagination (Victoria and Albert Museum 03/10/2007-24/04/2008)

Labels and date

Each of these free pocket-sized tube maps has a cover commissioned by Platform for Art for London Underground. To explore ideas about mapping and route-finding, the artists used the colours of the lines from the classic tube map devised by Henry Beck (displayed nearby). Emma Kay turned the lines into a series of concentric circles, suggesting a tube tunnel. David Shrigley drew the lines as a confused tangle, to be magically clarified and organised when one unfolds the map. Yinka Shonibare’s design reflects London’s multicultural population and its heritage as the capital of an empire which once spanned 5 continents; he used the Peters projection (1974) which represents the true relative surface areas of each country. [2007]

Materials

Paper; Ink

Techniques

Printed

Subjects depicted

Map (transport)

Categories

Prints

Production Type

Mass produced

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O140696
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