There's an item in the NYT's City Room blog about the 1972 New York City subway map by Massimo Vignelli, which is going to make a special updated appearance in this month's issue of Men's Vogue.
I love, love, love that map. It has since been replaced with more geographically-accurate versions because people were too confused by its abstractness, which I don't really get. Like the City Room writer notes, the map for the Tube has been abstract for a while, and Londoners don't seem to have any problems with it. Same goes for the Paris and Tokyo maps, to name a couple, and the DC metro map, which the writer just had to knock as "Playskool." Heh, sorry for having a map that actually easy to read. Buster Bluth could design a better subway map than your current noodle-like monstrosity, and he thought that the blue on the map was land even after $80,000 worth of cartography lessons. Oh, snap.
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