MetroTable: the Moscow Metro as an Awesome Coffee Table
Do want. Source: Vladimir Tomilov’s Behance Portfolio via @Piktograf
All posts tagged: Europe
Photo: Porto Metro Signage
Looks quite lovely in location… although perhaps a little small to be seen from far away. Source: varlamov/Flickr
Photo: Paris Métro Map Mosaic Wall
This has the subway mural in Brooklyn beat, I feel. This awesome tiled map of the 13th arrondisement covers the whole wall of this building (which I’m guessing is located where the red lines on the map intersect), complete with street names, parks, and Metro stations. It looks like the route lines are neon lighting, just for that extra cool factor. The whole thing has a great 8-bit art feeling to it which I love. […]
Stickers on the Central Line, London Underground
From the now sadly defunct “Stickers on the Central Line” Tumblr, are these hilarious and superbly executed “prank” stickers found on the London Underground. Matching the original strip map almost exactly, they instead insert something unexpected, pointed, or just plain funny. My favourite? Change at Tottenham Court Road for a submarine to Somalia, complete with a very plausible London Underground submarine icon. More here in this imgur album. Hat tip to Twitter user Ben Darfler.
Photo: Paris Metro Map, Line 12
Nice shallow depth of field, but was he holding the camera up way over his head to get this point of view? Source: Cormac Phelan/Flickr
Official Map: LPP Bus Network, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012
Here’s an interesting diagrammatic bus-only map from Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia in Central Europe. Completely diagrammatic bus maps are a fairly rare breed, as users often want to be able to see exactly where the routes go along roads. Because of this, geographical maps and slightly simplified geographical maps tend to be the most popular forms of bus map. In this case, the small number of routes, the small size of […]
“Subway Series” by Henry Hargreaves
Amazing series of photos by Henry Hargreaves where he recreates transit maps out of everyday materials. Shown here are Moscow made from coloured yarn, and New York, beautifully recreated with ribbon. He’s also done Paris, London and Washington, DC. Source: CMYBacon – link no longer active
Photo: Map Reading
No matter how simple the system, there still always seems to be infinite potential for confusion – even if it’s just choosing which side of the platform to stand on. Source: -Canonist-/Flickr
Fantasy Map: Biergärten in München
Oktoberfest started yesterday in Munich, so I thought it would be appropriate to share this fun little map from 2008 of Munich’s beer gardens laid out in the familiar style of that city’s S- and U-Bahn map. However, beware! Although this map looks quite similar to the official one, the “lines” shown here don’t seem to correlate to the actual routes in real life — I would not recommend using this map on your Munich […]
Photo: Old Paris Metro Map (Detail), c. 1969-1977
This is simply gorgeous. The fact that the RER terminates at Nation dates this map from between 1969 (when the RATP first purchased the line from the SNCF) and 1977 (when the line was extended through Paris and became the RER “A” line we know today). The original post on Flickr does not note where this map is (or was) located. Source: lionelofparis/Flickr