Herb Lester

29/09/2026

In the early days of Herb Lester, we published a guide to 1960s London called Wish You Were There, designed by Peder Bernhardt.
The Tokyo streetwear label A Bathing Ape came across it and liked it so much they wanted one of their own. So we redrew it to fit a cotton square, which they printed and packaged as a promotional handkerchief.
Both the guide and the handkerchief map the West End’s boutiques, clubs and bars, but the handkerchief has one key addition: the BAPE Store on Upper James Street.
Wish You Were There has been out of print for years, and the handkerchief was never on general sale, but we thought you might like to see it anyway. It’s also a reminder that we make things for clients too.

24/09/2026

23/09/2026

Preorders are open for Into the Pines, our unauthorised guide to the real locations of Twin Peaks. Forty-one sites, from the Double R Diner to the falls above the Great Northern, mapped from the original series through Fire Walk With Me and The Return. Link in bio.
Writing and research by and
Design and illustration by

20/09/2026

Blandings And Beyond, our map and guide to the real places behind PG Wodehouse’s fiction. Entry 37: Walsingham Hall, the ancestral pile baronet Sir Buckstone Abbott can’t offload in Summer Moonshine (1938), generally thought to be modelled on Chateau Impney, Droitwich Spa. Its “glazed red bricks, dome and minarets” match Wodehouse’s description closely.
It was a spa hotel in Wodehouse’s day too, and he’s said to have stayed there, working on his next novel between salt baths.
Written by Robert Bruce, designed and illustrated by Daniele Simonelli Design

17/09/2026

One reader on Fear City, our guide to New York’s underground scene, 1974 to 1981.
It’s written by Gary Lachman, who was there for a lot of it, as Gary Valentine, founding member of Blondie.

16/09/2026

Could this be the "not too buggered about inside" pub near the Park, mentioned in the Slow Horses books? Mick Herron never names it, but in Lamb's London we posit The Lucky Saint on Devonshire Street as a likely candidate.
Slow Horses is back today. Pick up our guide and trace Jackson Lamb's London yourself.
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16/09/2026

Slow Horses returns today, and one of the locations from the new series is in Lamb’s London, our guide to Jackson Lamb’s world.
Written by Richard Hutt, design and illustration by ITAL/C

15/09/2026

The Herb Lester Weekly. Undated, so it starts whenever you need it to, plan the usual alongside the unusual for each week of the year.
Design Peder Bernhardt

27/08/2026

With rain falling in London, it feels like the right time to look to the months ahead. Here are a few hints at what we have in store.