Transit Maps: Blue Crow Media

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

December 8, 2019

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architecture, Blue Crow Media, cartography, design, Europe, France, gift guide, graphic design, Jason Woods, Linda Tonn, Mark Ovenden, metro, MTA, New York, New York Subway, Nigel Green, Paris, Paris Metro, Sandra Bloodworth, subway, USA

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 […]