All posts tagged: Ilya Birman

Submission – Unofficial Map: Minsk Metro, Belarus by Ilya Birman, Ivan Zviahin and Konstantin Evstratenko

August 2, 2017
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Unofficial Maps
Tags:

If you ever do a Google image search for the map of the Minsk Metro, you’ll quickly find out that there are a lot of dreary, hackneyed and downright terrible versions of it – both official and unofficial. Despite the simplicity of its X-shaped two-line system (with a third in the works), it just doesn’t seem to inspire good design work. Until now.  Ilya Birman – whom Transit Maps has featured a number of times […]

Official Map – Metro Map of Ekaterinburg, Russia by Ilya Birman and Pasha Omelekhin

January 26, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Ilya, whose previous work has been featured here on the blog. Figuring that a schematic diagram of a single line subway system is little more than a glorified list (which is basically true), Ilya and Pasha have instead created a rather lovely stylised – but geographically faithful – map of Ekaterinburg’s simple Metro system. In a way, it reminds me of turn-of-the-20th-century railway maps, where the route lines would literally be overprinted onto an […]

Official Map: Tram Network of Chelyabinsk, Russia by Ilya Birman and Alexander Karavaev

September 9, 2015
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

This brand new map was sent my way by quite a few people last week, so here it is! If the name “Ilya Birman” sounds familiar, it’s because his map of the Moscow Metro came second in the design competition a few years ago that was eventually won by Art Lebedev Studios. I wrote about Ilya’s entry here at the time. Now, Ilya and designer Alexander Karavaev have turned their attention to the tram network […]

The Almost Official Map: Ilya Birman’s Moscow Metro Map

February 20, 2013
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Unofficial Maps
Tags:

I’ve seen a lot of tweets recently linking to the design process page for Art Lebedev’s new official Moscow Metro map (Transit Maps wrote about this page way back on February 4th). However, I haven’t seen as much attention being paid to the second-place winning map, designed by Ilya Birman. He also has a design process page for his map, and it’s just as fascinating as the Lebedev one. He discusses the difficulty of having […]