Transit Maps: contest

Design the Boston MBTA Map – For FREE!

April 10, 2013

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Boston, contest, graphic design, Massachusetts, MBTA, no spec, spec work, subway map, USA

So the MBTA is having a friendly little “contest” for people to design a new “T” map, ostensibly in celebration of National Transportation Week. How sweet and fun! Let’s get real here, people. This is speculative (“spec”) work, pure and simple. The MBTA wants to harvest ideas for a future map from entries, but doesn’t want to pay a red cent for them. The winner gets nothing but kudos and the “privilege” of having their […]

Plus ça Change, Washington D.C. Style

May 26, 2011

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My Transit Maps, Official Maps, Unofficial Maps

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Cameron Booth, contest, critique, graphic design, Greater Greater Washington, Lance Wyman, transit map, USA, Washington DC

Recently, I entered a friendly contest organised by the Greater Greater Washington website to redesign the Washington, DC Metrorail map. With the recent appointment of the original designer, Lance Wyman, to renew the real map, there’s a lot of interest in this subject at the moment. I had already done a lot of the hard work with my previous redesign, although a few of the contest’s new requirements definitely necessitated a lot of rethinking. Overall, […]