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Historical Map: Pacific Electric Railway System in Southern California, c. 1926 by Jake Berman

September 5, 2018

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I’m really enjoying this modern take on a map of the Pacific Electric’s sprawling electric streetcar network by Jake Berman. Obviously based on the period map shown (or an extremely similar one!), it retains a lot of the visual energy of the original – mainly because of the multiple angles used for both the route lines and labels. Normally, this might be something I’d find fault with, but I think it’s totally appropriate here when […]

Project: Prototype U.S. Highways Shield (1926), Digital Recreation

December 14, 2014

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1926, Adobe Illustrator, digital recreation, graphic design, highways, history, route shield, shield, typography, U.S. Routes, USA

While doing research for my recent 1947 Interstate Highways map recreation, I stumbled across some scans of American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) road sign specifications dated from the 1920s. The very first page has a dimensioned drawing of the then brand new U.S. Highways shield that I find extremely interesting, as it doesn't quite match the the shield as it actually first appeared on real world signage in 1927.

Project: 1926 Map of U.S. Highways, Digital Restoration

November 14, 2014

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I came across this great 1926 map of the original Numbered U.S. Highway System via an article on CityLab. As I looked, I began to see that while the quality of the scan was good, and the content of the map was fascinating, the map itself was in a pretty sorry state -- so I decided to digitally restore it.