List of Art on the Underground Tube map covers

Since 2004, Art on the Underground has commissioned artists to create covers for London Underground's pocket Tube map.[1] These free maps are one of the largest public art commissions in the UK.[2] Over 40 different designs have been produced, with designs from a wide variety of British and international artists.[3] Around 2 million maps are printed for each cover, down from a high of around 12 million in the early 2010s.[2][4] In 2014, The Guardian published a pictorial survey of the first 10 years' designs,[5] and The Londonist has a survey up to 2017.[6] Between 2016 and 2018, there were also a series of covers for Night Tube.[7]

Tube map covers

No Year Month Artist Title
1 2004 August Emma Kay You Are in London [8]
2 2005 June Gary Hume Untitled [9]
3 2006 February David Shrigley Untitled [10]
4 June Yinka Shonibare Global Underground Map [11]
5 2007 January Liam Gillick The Day Before (You Know What They'll Call It? They'll Call it the Tube) [12][13]
6 July Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan Portrait of John Hough (TfL's longest serving member of staff - 45 years of service) [14][15]
7 2008 January Cornelia Parker Underground Abstract [16][17]
8 March Mark Wallinger Going Underground [18]
9 October Pae White ...fragment of a Magic Carpet, circa 1213 [19]
10 2009 March Paul Noble Untitled [20]
11 September Richard Long Earth [21]
12 2010 May Barbara Kruger Untitled (Tube Map) [22][23]
13 2011 March Eva Rothschild Good Times [24]
14 August Michael Landy All My Lines in the Palm of Your Hand [25][26]
15 December Yayoi Kusama Polka Dots Festival [27]
16 2012 June Tracey Emin The Central Line [28][29]
17 December Sarah Morris Petrobas (Rio) [30]
18 2013 May Mona Hatoum London: The World [31]
19 December Iman Qureshi All Time Would Be Perpetual Spring [32]
20 2014 May Rachel Whiteread The Hole of London 2014 [33][34]
21 December Daniel Buren From A Single One To Millions: Ink On Paper [35][36]
22 2015 May Pablo Bronstein Design for a magnificent London Underground Grand Pendulum in gilt bronze [37][38]
23 2016 January Tomma Abts Untitled [39]
24 June Hew Locke Tunnel Vision [40][41]
25 December Gillian Carnegie Metropolitan Diamonds [42][43]
26 2017 June Lily van der Stokker Out Next Stop [44]
27 2018 January Marc Camille Chaimowicz Untitled [45]
28 May Geta Brătescu Game of Forms [46][47]
29 December Linder The Bower of Bliss [48][49]
30 2019 June Laure Prouvost You are deeper than what you think [50][51]
31 December Bedwyr Williams Morden [52][53]
32 2020 May Elisabeth Wild Fantasías [54][55]
33 December Phyllida Barlow helter skelter [56]
34 2021 September Helen Cammock sit alongside and feel me breathe [57]
35 2022 January Larry Achiampong What I Hear I Keep [4]
36 May Joy Labinjo Twist Out [58]
37 November Do Ho Suh Routes/Roots: London [59]
38 2023 May Sharon Hayes Come Out, Come Out [60]
39 December Joy Gregory A Little Slice of Paradise [61]
40 2024 November[a] Rita Keegan The Fabric of Time [63]
41 2025 July Agnes Denes Map Projections [64]

Night Tube map covers

No Year Month Artist Title
1 2016 December Samara Scott Night Tube Map Commission [65]
2 2017 May Pio Abad Eddie [66]
3 December Marianna Simnett Wing-sleepers [66]
4 2018 May Marie Jacotey You in my bedroom [67]
5 December Jade Montserrat hand this piece to one Jacob Aston West (b. approx. 1941–43, Montserrat) [68][69]

Notes

  1. ^ Due to the TfL cyber attack in September 2024, release of the 40th cover was delayed from September 2024 to November 2024, with the map labelled as September 2024[62]

References

  1. ^ "Underground art: London tube map designs". theguardian.com. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b "London Underground: a miniature commission for pocket maps - a-n The Artists Information Company". Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  3. ^ "Tube Map". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  4. ^ a b "What I Hear I Keep". Art on the Underground. January 2021. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  5. ^ "Ten years of artists' tube map covers - in pictures". theguardian.com. May 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  6. ^ Harry Rosehill (31 January 2018). "How many of these Tube map covers do you remember?". Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Projects Archive". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  8. ^ "You are in London". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  9. ^ "Untitled". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  10. ^ "Map of London Underground". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  11. ^ "Global Underground Map". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  12. ^ "The Day Before (You know what they'll call it, they'll call it the Tube)". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  13. ^ "New look for Tube map cover". BBC News. 2007-01-11. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  14. ^ "Map; Pocket Underground map, cover designed by Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan, July 2007". London Transport Museum. July 2007. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  15. ^ "Portrait of John Hough (Transport for London's longest serving member of staff - 45 years of service)". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  16. ^ "Underground Abstract". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  17. ^ Administrator, System (2008-01-03). "Arty cover for new pocket Tube map". Design Week. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  18. ^ "Going Underground". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  19. ^ "…fragment of a Magic Carpet, circa 1213". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  20. ^ "Untitled". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  21. ^ "Earth". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  22. ^ "Untitled (Tube Map)". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  23. ^ "Aesthetica Magazine - Untitled (Tube Map) by Barbara Kruger". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  24. ^ "Good Times". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  25. ^ "Feast for the eyes on the daily Tube commute". bbc.co.uk. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  26. ^ "All my lines in the palm of your hand". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  27. ^ "Polka Dots Festival in London". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  28. ^ John O'Ceallaigh. "London Underground: Tracey Emin's Tube map unveiled". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  29. ^ "The Central Line". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  30. ^ "Petrobras [Rio]". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  31. ^ "London: the world". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  32. ^ "All Time Would be Perpetual Spring". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  33. ^ "The Hole of London 2014". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  34. ^ "Rachel Whiteread designs new 'Tube' map cover :: April 2014 :: Art news :: Cassone". www.cassone-art.com. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  35. ^ "Art on the Underground commissions Tube map cover from French artist Daniel Buren". frieze.com. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  36. ^ "From A Single One To Millions: Ink On Paper". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  37. ^ "Design for a magnificent London Underground Grand Pendulum in gilt bronze". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  38. ^ Moss, Richard (1 June 2015). "Pablo Bronstein meditates on Baroque clocks and time travel for new pocket Tube map". Culture24. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  39. ^ "Tomma Abts Pocket Tube Map". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  40. ^ "Hew Locke - Art on the Underground". halesgallery.com. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  41. ^ "Tunnel Vision". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  42. ^ "Metropolitan Diamonds". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  43. ^ Breen, Matt (15 December 2016). "The latest tube map cover has just been revealed". Time Out London. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  44. ^ "Out Next Stop". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  45. ^ "Pocket Tube Map 2017". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  46. ^ "Game of Forms". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  47. ^ "Geta Bratescu Creates 28th Pocket Tube Map Art". Artlyst. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  48. ^ "A sculpture gets castrated, and Olafur Eliasson surrounds Tate Modern with ice". elephant.art. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  49. ^ "The Bower of Bliss". Art on the Underground. December 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  50. ^ "You are deeper than what you think". Art on the Underground. June 2019. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  51. ^ "Laure Prouvost has designed the 30th Art on the Underground tube map". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  52. ^ "Bedwyr Williams's bespectacled art bods appear on Pocket Tube map". theartnewspaper.com. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  53. ^ "Morden". Art on the Underground. December 2019. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  54. ^ "Elisabeth Wild, 1922–2020". artreview.com. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  55. ^ "Fantasías". Art on the Underground. May 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  56. ^ "helter skelter". Art on the Underground. December 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  57. ^ "sit alongside and feel me breathe". Art on the Underground. September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  58. ^ "Twist Out". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  59. ^ "Routes/Roots: London". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  60. ^ "Come Out, Come Out". Art on the Underground. May 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  61. ^ "A Little Slice of Paradise". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  62. ^ @artontheunderground; (17 September 2024). "Coming soon - the 40th pocket tube map cover 'The Fabric of Time' by Rita Keegan 💛" – via Instagram.
  63. ^ "New pocket Tube map by leading artist Rita Keegan pays homage to Tube seat designs". Transport for London. 26 November 2024. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
  64. ^ "New pocket Tube map artwork by Agnes Denes calls on Londoners to see the world differently". Transport for London. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  65. ^ "Night Tube map commission". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  66. ^ a b "Eddie". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  67. ^ "You in my bedroom". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  68. ^ "hand this piece to one Jacob Aston West (b. approx. 1941-43, Montserrat)". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  69. ^ "A sculpture gets castrated, and Olafur Eliasson surrounds Tate Modern with ice". elephant.art. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2021.


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