Blue Crow Media is a London-based independent map and app publisher founded in 2010 by Derek Lamberton.[1] Its early publications include a series of food and drink city guides,[2][3] and since 2015 the publisher has put out a series of “handsome architectural guides”.[4]The New York Times has described the maps as "part design manifesto, part urban architecture guide".[5]
History
In 2015 Blue Crow Media published their first architecture guide, Brutalist London Map,[6] which was followed by Art Deco London Map,[7]Constructivist Moscow Map,[8]Brutalist Washington Map,[9]Modern Berlin Map ,[10]Brutalist Paris Map,[11]Brutalist Sydney Map,[12]Modernist Belgrade Map,[13]Brutalist Boston Map,[14]Concrete New York Map,[15]and Concrete Tokyo Map.[16]London Underground Architecture & Design Map[17] by Mark Ovenden is the first in a new series dedicated to the architecture and design of public transport systems.[18] In 2017, Blue Crow Media’s Lamberton was shortlisted by Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards for the London Book Fair Innovation in Travel Publishing Award.[19]