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The collection

Twenty-six prints from your own geography.

One race on the city map. Every road you know. A year of squares. The city sculpted from its streets. Or the place itself — a city, a village, the stretch between two neighbourhoods — drawn from its own streets. Composed free in the Studio, framed by hand and posted tracked. From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed.

Where you went

The Marathon Print: One race, ride, hike or walk: the route coloured by pace, the time, the splits and the climb.
The Marathon PrintOne race, ride, hike or walk: the route coloured by pace, the time, the splits and the climb.
Heatmap: Every familiar road, layered together.
HeatmapEvery familiar road, layered together.
Contours: Activity density drawn as contour lines; not terrain elevation.
ContoursActivity density drawn as contour lines; not terrain elevation.
Route atlas: Your routes, collected in a precise grid.
Route atlasYour routes, collected in a precise grid.
The finish line: Your longest selected GPS route, with start and finish markers.
The finish lineYour longest selected GPS route, with start and finish markers.
Blueprint: Your routes on a fine surveying grid.
BlueprintYour routes on a fine surveying grid.
Pointillist: Sampled GPS points form a delicate map of your movement.
PointillistSampled GPS points form a delicate map of your movement.
Common ground: Routes aligned at their start, preserving direction and relative scale.
Common groundRoutes aligned at their start, preserving direction and relative scale.
The medallion: Your route through the city, set in a circle with a compass ring.
The medallionYour route through the city, set in a circle with a compass ring.
Night city: The city in negative: streets in light, your route lit from within.
Night cityThe city in negative: streets in light, your route lit from within.
Ripples: Your route, and the ground around it drawn as rings.
RipplesYour route, and the ground around it drawn as rings.
Hex tiles: Everywhere you have been, as a mosaic of hexagons on the map.
Hex tilesEverywhere you have been, as a mosaic of hexagons on the map.
The sketchbook: Streets drawn by hand, your route in marker.
The sketchbookStreets drawn by hand, your route in marker.
The relief: Your city sculpted from its own streets, seen from the air, your route laid across it in gold.
The reliefYour city sculpted from its own streets, seen from the air, your route laid across it in gold.

Anywhere on earth

The Map Print: Anywhere on earth, drawn from its own streets: a city, your village, or the stretch between two neighbourhoods. No data needed.
The Map PrintAnywhere on earth, drawn from its own streets: a city, your village, or the stretch between two neighbourhoods. No data needed.
The Historic Print: Your street as the Ordnance Survey drew it more than a century ago, in London and twelve other cities. Type a postcode and find your house.
The Historic PrintYour street as the Ordnance Survey drew it more than a century ago, in London and twelve other cities. Type a postcode and find your house.

What you climbed

Elevation: Layered altitude profiles from your GPS tracks.
ElevationLayered altitude profiles from your GPS tracks.
Elevation orbit: Recorded altitude wraps around a circle for up to 24 tracks.
Elevation orbitRecorded altitude wraps around a circle for up to 24 tracks.
Summit silhouettes: Layered altitude silhouettes from up to 10 tracks.
Summit silhouettesLayered altitude silhouettes from up to 10 tracks.

How much, how often

Distance rings: A ring for every activity. Longer arcs mean more distance.
Distance ringsA ring for every activity. Longer arcs mean more distance.
Year in motion: A year of effort. One square for every day.
Year in motionA year of effort. One square for every day.
Solar miles: Chronological rays, each sized by activity distance.
Solar milesChronological rays, each sized by activity distance.
Distance rhythm: One vertical bar per activity, sized by distance.
Distance rhythmOne vertical bar per activity, sized by distance.
Twelve chapters: Monthly distance totals, from January to December.
Twelve chaptersMonthly distance totals, from January to December.
Constellation: Date along the page, distance upwards, and duration in each dot.
ConstellationDate along the page, distance upwards, and duration in each dot.

The photograph

The Photo Print: Your race photograph, set in one of six layouts — one with a slot for your bib. No data needed.
The Photo PrintYour race photograph, set in one of six layouts — one with a slot for your bib. No data needed.

Places and courses

The ground itself — a city, a course, a path, a mountain, a climb — drawn from the map, no data needed.

Marathon courses
Marathon coursesFifty great marathons, each drawn on its own course and city map.
City maps
City mapsAny city, town or village on earth, drawn from its own streets.
Long-distance paths
Long-distance pathsBritain's long-distance paths, end to end or the stretch you walked.
Mountains ComingThe great mountains, each drawn in its own contour lines.
Cycling climbs ComingThe great cycling climbs, hairpin by hairpin, with the gradient by colour.

From the archive

Maps, charts and drawings from the public record, restored and printed on the same paper.

Historic maps
Historic mapsYour street on the Victorian Ordnance Survey, and the great city plans.
Sea charts ComingAdmiralty and coastal charts from the age of sail.
Engineering and patents ComingHow things work, as the patent drawings explained it.
Space ComingSaturn V, Apollo, the Shuttle and Voyager, as their engineers drew them.
Aircraft ComingGreat aircraft in elevation and plan, every one to the same scale.
Cars ComingClassic shapes in profile, with the wheelbase, the year and the engine.
Architecture ComingGreat structures as their engineers drew them, span and all.

Nature and art

Plates and prints from the great collections, cropped for a modern wall.

Prints from the masters ComingHokusai and Hiroshige, cropped for a modern wall.
Anatomy ComingPlates from the first edition of Gray's Anatomy.
Botanical ComingBotanical plates from the great collections, with their Latin names.
Natural history ComingAudubon's birds and the butterfly plates, on a plain ground.
How it works

From the Studio to your wall in three steps.

The Heatmap print: a year of London runs layered into one map of familiar roads
Step 01

Choose your subject

Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.

The Contours print: a year of runs drawn as density contours, the ground darkest where the miles repeat
Step 02

Choose your style

Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.

The Distance rings print: one ring for every activity of the year, the longer arcs the longer days
Step 03

We print and frame it

Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.

  • Made to orderPrinted for you, never from stock
  • Fine-art paperArchival inks, framed by hand
  • Tracked deliveryUK delivery £7.85, tracked · worldwide, priced at checkout
  • Arrives damaged?We replace it, no quibble