John Plumer

John Plumer – Designer

Smashing illustrated maps, cartography designed to your targeted readership. Good at getting the design right first time.

Overview

Hello, I'm John and I have been making maps for print for 25 years. I gained a degree in Cartography & Geography and went on to work for Dorling Kindersley where I ended up designing the specifications for whole atlases as well as working on the very first four Eyewitness Travel Guides-London, New York, Paris and Rome. After almost a decade I left DK and started working for myself. My main client was The Geographical, the monthly periodical for the RGS, but I soon acquired more clients and over the years have worked with many magazines, publishers and authors like The Sunday Times, Bloomsbury Publishing and Christopher Howse.


I offer a bespoke mapping service. With a brief from you detailing content, final map print dimensions and some idea of the style you would like I can quickly give an estimate or quote. The more information you can give the more accurate the costing. Then I can create a couple of designs of the map/s as first drafts and then proceed as you see fit. Please do see my portfolio of maps at the bottom, there are many different styles I can illustrate.


Services
Non-Fiction
Design Geography History Nature Transportation Travel
Fiction
Historical Fiction Holiday
Languages
English

Work experience

Self-employed

Aug, 1997 — Present

Design and supply of maps for publishing

John has 4 reviews

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Jim M.

Jim M.

Aug, 2024

John was fast, professional, and pleasant to work with. I'll use him again if I ever have the need.
John P.
Jim was good fun to work with, I would work with him again.
Cordelia O.

Cordelia O.

Aug, 2024

The map John has created is beautiful. I felt that he took great care to understand the brief, and he was also very quick to respond throughout the project. I would definitely work with John again.
John P.
Cordelia was a pleasure to work for. She provided a full brief and responded quickly with any questions I had. I would work with her again.
Daniel H.

Daniel H.

Jul, 2024

John has been fantastic to work with for this project. Responsive and very efficient, I would highly recommend for any future author to collaborate with John on any historical or other mapping project.
John P.
Thank you Daniel. A pleasure to work with you too. John
Caroline S.

Caroline S.

Jun, 2024

All 5 stars for John Plumer. His work is outstanding and his prices are very reasonable. He is a quick worker, pleasant to deal with and very responsive to my brief and my suggestions. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with him on this project, which was to produce a series of 9 custom-made maps for a children's history book. They have turned out better than I had hoped, and well within deadlin...
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John P.
Caroline was very pleasant to work with, created a clear map brief, and any queries I had were quickly responded to in full. I would work with Caroline again.

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