Our exhibition with Pigeon, Very Small Kitchen and Ladies of the Press* opened last Friday to a massive crowd. We couldn’t have hoped for a better turn-out.
A huge thanks to everyone who came along, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you’ve still got until March 4th. We’re also having an evening of talks on the nature of alternative and independent publishing on the 3rd at X Marks the Bökship.
And now, a few snaps from opening night:
Posted in Event, Illustration, Photos, Poetry, Prose
Tagged alternative, annexe, design, exhibition, illustration, independent, ladies of the press, pigeon, Poetry, prose, publishing, sites of alternative publishing, very small kitchen
Are you’re still searching for that logophile’s haven that suits your tastes just perfectly? Do you sometimes find yourself with an hour to kill and wondering where the closest bookshop to you is? Perhaps you’re a little more ambitious and you’re trying to visit every independent bookshop in London. Whatever your reason for looking, the search just got volumes easier. The indie booksellers of London have banded together and the community, long formed, has now been visualised. Literally.
The last few months have seen the emergence of a series of bookshop maps. That is, maps specifically focusing on pin-pointing the bookshops of our fair city, and this literary cartography shows, first and foremost, that independent bookselling is still as prominent as ever.
See more maps and read more words after the jump. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Illustration
Tagged bookshop, bookshops, cartography, clerkenwell, hackney, independent, london, map, maps, shoreditch, tales, whitechapel
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