It's time to bring back the lost art of the inspiring public information poster

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Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, and the posters about it remain dismal. What happened to the great design of the Tube map and WW2 posters? 🔓 This article is free to read all weekend

Above my desk hang two posters by the artist MacDonald Gill. One is “The Wonderground Map of London Town”, the other the artist’s map of “Theatreland”. Through the long weeks of lockdown, with theatres closed, and taking the Tube as intrepid as a trek through the Hindu Kush, I looked at the maps again and again and went sightseeing in imagination. A serpent swims the Serpentine like a London Loch Ness monster. An acrobat turns cartwheels in Oxford Circus.

 

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