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Review: New York Subway and Paris Métro Architecture and Design Maps by Blue Crow Media

December 8, 2019

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Transit Maps previously reviewed Blue Crow’s London Underground Architecture and Design Map back in 2017, and they’ve just released two new maps in the series celebrating Paris and New York’s transit systems (there’s also another map in the series for Moscow). As before, the maps are simple but elegant in their execution, with a geographical map of the system on one side and the explanatory text and photos on the other. They come in handsome […]

Review: London Underground Architecture and Design Map by Blue Crow Media

November 25, 2017

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2017 gift guide, architecture, Blue Crow Media, cartography, design, England, Europe, gift guide, graphic design, London, London Underground, Mark Ovenden, tube map, United Kingdom, Will Scott

Blue Crow Media is an independent publisher of beautifully designed city guide maps on many subjects – you may be familiar with their “Brutalist Architecture” series – and this new map is the first in a planned series of maps about public transportation networks around the world. Edited by Mark Ovenden (of Transit Maps of the World fame) with some lovely photos by Will Scott, the map promises to be an authoritative guide to the design and architecture […]

Unofficial Map: Chicago “El” in the Style of Frank Lloyd Wright by Maxwell Roberts

November 29, 2015

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2015 Gift Guide, 5 stars, architecture, Chicago, CTA, El, Frank Lloyd Wright, heavy rail, Illinois, Maxwell Roberts, poster, stained glass, USA

Words cannot express just how much I love this beautiful, beautiful map by Maxwell Roberts, whose work I’ve featured on the blog many times previously. I had the privilege of seeing this map “in the flesh” at the New York Transit Museum event I attended earlier this month, and it looks even more impressive as an actual print. The map is inspired by the work of the famous architect and designer, Frank Lloyd Wright – most […]

Interactive Map: Architectural Types of the Washington DC Metro

October 6, 2014

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An interesting post over at Greater Greater Washington by long-time Transit Maps contributor Matt’ Johnson: a clickable interactive map that displays the location of each of the different architectural styles at stations. (That’s eleven defined styles, plus a category for those few stations that are unique). The “waffle” vaulting at underground stations may be the iconic style in most people’s minds, but there’s definitely more to be seen than just that! Even the map above […]