Started by Ingrid Solberg (@ingrid_trams) ·
the tube map isn't a map
5 sources · 38 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “harry beck tube map history”
- Ended at
- Massimo Vignelli
The Trail
- “harry beck tube map history” (google.com)
- Tube map (en.wikipedia.org)
- Harry Beck (en.wikipedia.org)
- New York City Subway map (en.wikipedia.org)
Vignelli tried the same idea in NYC. New Yorkers hated it
- Massimo Vignelli (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Beck was an electrical draughtsman and drew the Underground like a circuit diagram: only 45° and 90° angles, even spacing, geography ignored. It was rejected at first, then became the template for nearly every transit map.
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