#subway map

[voca1ion]

In light of the recent popularity of my 1940 bank subway map, here is another slightly older c1938 bank subway map, this time courtesy of the New York Savings Bank with a lovely illustrated cover. The inside contains some detail about the length and ridership of the three systems and on how to determine the location of an address based on which avenue it is on. Notable is the still under construction Sixth Avenue Line between 59th Street and West 4th Street.

[tilbageidanmark]

Washington DC Metro Map Sweater

[bypurplestudio]

Sistema Colectivo Bangtan⁷ 🚃💜🇲🇽 map edition (the last of my freebies)

I spend 5 hours of my day living inside the subway, so of course I had to bangtanize one of the most iconic design systems in Mexico 🤸⭐️

This focuses on their solo projects from Chapter 2 and ARIRANG! 🔴

Back in the day, years and years ago, the city’s subway visual system was designed by Lance Wyman with a very clear goal: create an iconography that anyone could understand, regardless of reading level. A truly gigantic project (logos, typography, icons for stairs, entrances, exits, platforms, inside the trains), everythinggggg was considered.

Today, that visual language is still alive, and it keeps bleeding into other transport systems like the Metrobús :))💚💖❤️✨

[themisstakenidentity]

After reading the "Bren Rides on Trains" books (from CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series), I wanted to make a subway-type map of the Atevi rail system. Based on this (very necessary and very good) map of the Atevi Earth.

It's a draft, so any suggestions are welcome!

[fivelila]

Umbrella Academy TV Props: Subway Map and Notes Photos by wadescott [eBay]

[smallwhiterat]

Montreal metro map (2024)

Four lines and 68 stations reimagined vertically

[vignellicenter]

Please join us for our next Open Houses! March 20-21, 2024 10am-4pm.

The NYC subway map that never was. Or at least it was never implemented.

The NYC Subway graphics are some of the most requested artifacts from the Vignelli archives. We acquired this unique “verbal map” aka “The Directory” aka the “How to get there” map in 2022. Our archivist put it on display for the first time in 50 years at our Open Houses in September 2022!

 “The Verbal Map described how to reach a destination, which train to get, where to change, and when to get out.” – Massimo Vignelli [comment on Michael Bierut’s essay “Mr. Vignelli Map” for Design Observer]

Printed on very glossy paper in full color, this map is large like the station size maps. Printed in two parts [top and bottom] each half measuring 29.5” x 47.5”.

In the Graphic Standards Manual on Page 3 “Diagram of Basic Sign Distribution” it describes the various maps to be installed:

Maps: System maps (implemented, the famous one),

neighborhood map (not implemented),

‘How to get there’ map (not implemented but we have the prototype!)

From the Graphics Standards Manual on page 75, “The Directory”:

“The directory is designed to help a passenger find his “Destination” and “How to get there” quickly and easily. Each station will have its own directory listing all other station alphabetically and numerically. Each station will be followed by the color disc designating he trains that stop there. If there is no direct train, transfer information will follow the station name. This directory will be placed at all important points in the subways station both inside and outside the turnstiles.”

We also have the Dekalb Av Signage Study “analyzed and completed by Joan Charysyn and Virginia Macintosh” for Unimark International in 1971 which shows a mockup of the various maps and states “A directory and three maps will eventually be in use in all subway stations.”

Be sure to join us for our next Open Houses and see what other surprises you can discover! Learn more opn our events page: https://www.rit.edu/events/vignelli-center-spring-open-house

Image descriptions:

Detail of “verbal map” aka “The Directory” aka the “How to get there” map

image of entire map

Video clip of map

Photo of Open Houses with logo

vintage 35mm slide of detail of “verbal map”

NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual pg. 75 “The Directory”

NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual pg. 75 “The Directory”

Slideshow of Dekalb St study: coversheet, Directory from Grand Central, System Map, Neighborhood map, and 5 Boroughs map

Vintage 35mm slide of 57th Street station signage

Vintage 35mm slides of 57th Street station signage

[stoplookingup]

I love that the subway map in The Umbrella Academy is inspired by the 1970s-era Massimo Vignelli NYC subway map, a design classic.

"For the map, Vignelli, with Charysyn as lead designer, eliminated winding train lines and topographical references in favor of a rectilinear format with forty-five- and ninety-degree angles. Each stop on the brightly colored lines is indicated by a simple dot, with pale, neutral colors and white showing waterways and landmasses in the background. Initially panned by New Yorkers—it was replaced in 1979 by a more familiar topographic approach—today the map is widely admired." (MOMA)