Project: 1956 Paris Métro Map Digital Recreation
A digital recreation of one of my absolute favourite vintage transit maps, with a couple of bonus variants at the end of the post!
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Work in Progress: Vectorization of a 1956 Paris Metro Map
Here’s a sneak peek at a little weekend project… coming along nicely, I must say! I’m particularly pleased with the all-vector halftone dots, which have a lovely organic feeling to them that suit the original source material nicely. More soon!
Historical Map: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe “Disneyland” Map, 1956
A simply gorgeous mid-1950s map of the AT&SF’s passenger routes, taken from a promotional brochure produced in conjunction with Disneyland, which is shown prominently to the right of the map. The brochure was ostensibly an introduction to the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad at Disneyland, then only a year old. Understandably, the AT&SF – who had basically bankrolled construction of the 5/8th scale railroad – were keen to get some return in their investment. As […]
Historical Map: Prototype BART Map, 1956
transportationnation: From Oaklandish: an ambitious 1956 BART prototype map. Some might say a little overly ambitious!