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Mark Ovenden traces his interest in cartography back to childhood when he began collecting transit maps from around the world, having been inspired by London’s Tube diagram. Despite following a media career spanning print, music, radio and TV, his interest in mapping was revealed by his first book Metro Maps of The World in 2003. It was picked up in the US by Penguin, being rebranded Transit Maps of the World (2007) and received critical press acclaim. Since then he’s published a dozen books on design and cartography in public transport, now translated into many languages, some becoming best-sellers (“in their own category of weird books about maps by niche writers”, he claims). He’s also presented documentary programmes for BBC4 and Radio 4, regularly lectures for the Arts Society and recently gained a Masters qualification for his study of British Rail design and identity. His latest offering Iconic Transit Maps highlights the design process of 50 of the world’s most respected schematics, most of which stand on the shoulders of Mr Becks 1930s work.
