Ah, the Quality Street box of chocolates and toffees – a perennial Christmas gift from grandparents throughout the UK, Australia and elsewhere. Their brightly coloured wrappers lend themselves well to this little project: a recreation of the London Tube map made from individual chocolates laid end to end. Yes, it’s all a silly bit of festive fun, but there is actually some insight into the current state of the map when they’re laying out the […]
Via: comiccartography: Tokyo Wan/Contents Florent Chavouet Tokyo on Foot Lovely contents page illustration/map from Florent Chavouet’s book, Tokyo on Foot. The map is dominated by the circular Yamanote Line, with thick “train track” route lines and bright red stations. More than anything else on the page, this circle seems to define “Tokyo”. Quite lovely.
Sent my way by Dmitry Darsavilidze, here’s the Google Doodle that’s currently active in Russia (and Kazakhstan) for May 15th – the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Moscow Metro. Source: The Google Doodle archive
xoverit: I came across these EPs by Australian indie folk musician Amanda Merdzan and instantly recognized the Washington, DC Metro. http://noisetrade.com/amandamerdzan/the-map-has-been-redrawn http://www.last.fm/music/Amanda+Merdzan/The+Map+Has+Been+Redrawn Well, almost. I’m not quite sure where the Yellow Line is heading off to at the top… maybe that’s the “redrawn” part of the map?
Sent my way by quite a few people now! Taken from a new DLC map set inside a subway station and the surrounding tracks, we have quite the array of maps! Here we have a map for the whole system, a strip map for the Orange Line, and even a locality map! The main subway map itself is pretty non-descript and generic – not a lot to say about this. The strip map, however, is […]
Sent my way by Brian Stokle on Twitter. I have to say that “Dark City” isn’t a movie I’m familiar with, although it had a pretty good cast – Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Richardson and William Hurt. Let’s see: dystopian future… things aren’t what they seem… memory loss… framed for a crime he didn’t commit… the movie certainly ticks all the “1990s sci-fi movie” boxes, that’s for sure. Needless to say, “Shell Beach” is […]
Welcome to FCB Island! Or something like that… I’d love to have listened in on the design brief for this project: Make it an island! Yeah, an island that looks like our crest! With lots of subway lines going everywhere and converging at the stadium! But none of them will go to the airport! Ha ha! Hilarious! I know, make the subway lines spell out “FCB” in the middle!!! Great! And it’s gotta have ALL the […]
Submitted by Benjamin, who says: It’s a few years old, but this New York Philharmonic poster by Djamika Smith is pretty cool. Transit Maps says: A fun idea, nicely executed. I particularly like that the route lines appear to be labelled as “A” through “G”: the notes of a musical scale. Source: Djamika Smith’s website – link no longer active
Via: cuttingroomflaw: The map of the New York subway system that featured in The Warriors was replaced in the same year that the film was released, 1979. The map seen in the film was designed by Massimo Vignelli and was first introduced by the Metropolitan Transport Authority in 1972. “But many New Yorkers were outraged by what they saw as the misrepresentation of their city, while tourists struggled to relate Mr. Vignelli’s design to what […]
Submitted by corvusboreus, who says: Replaying Deus Ex: Human Revolution and saw this map of the 2027 Detroit rail system. How much of a resemblance it has to the real rail system, I couldn’t tell you. Transit Maps says: Well, the short answer is that it doesn’t resemble it all. The longer answer is that it doesn’t resemble it because Detroit doesn’t currently have any rail transit apart from its adorable people mover loop downtown. […]
