Subway Map-Themed Wall Hooks
Looks pretty nifty! Maybe it’d go well with this subway map coat stand, or some other transit mappy furniture? Designed by Alan Wisniewski, and available for just $32 from the Umbra website.
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Video: Making Vitreous Enamel Wayfinding Signage
As an aside to the last post about the 1983 Chicago CTA map, Dennis also sent along this fun little “How It’s Made” video about the process used to create signs such as this. In the case of the CTA signs, the background blue would be the second layer applied to the steel signboard, and white and black would be the two screen printed colours that are then fired and fused permanently to the backing. […]
The Bustling Metropolis of our Brains!
teded: Behold! The bustling metropolis of our brains! From the TED-Ed lesson How playing an instrument benefits your brain – Anita Collins Animation by Sharon Colman Graham Brain/Tube Map animated GIF? Reblog.
Photo: Making Sense of It All
Submitted by Mark, who says: I was trying to capture a photo of the remnants of this strip list/map when the little girl got in the way and made the photo much better. Transit Maps says: Awwwwwwwwwww!
Photo: Bus Map? Or Periodic Table?
Not really as bad as all that, but an amusing comparison nonetheless. There’s probably a good reason for the crossed out duplicate route numbers, but I sure as heck don’t know what it is. Source: anna pickard/Flickr
Photo: The Underground Map – Then and Now
A nicely executed little montage of Underground maps through the years. From left to right: what looks like the 1932 version of the F.H Stingemore map, the original 1933 H.C. Beck diagram, and a modern day Tube Map. I have to say, the Underground uniforms in the 1930s were a lot nicer than their modern counterparts!
Photo: In Between, Montréal
Love this photo! Source: amesis/Flickr
Photo: Passeggiando in Valcamonica
Giant map of regional rail in Lombardy on the floor of Milan’s Repubblica station. Source: beriapaolo/Flickr
Happy Easter from Transit Maps!
(Bet you never thought I’d find an appropriate image for this!) Source: zhujianxun/Flickr
Photo: Coast to Coast
Lady with a NYC subway map umbrella looking at a Muni map in San Francisco. Great photo! Source: the N Judah Chronicles/Flickr