Photo: Search for Delicious
There’s nothing quite like photos of people looking perplexed by transit maps. Source: wahine_87/Flickr – link no longer active
All posts tagged: metro
Photo: Linea 1
Nice shot of an in-car strip map from Milan. Source: roboppy/Flickr
Photo: Moscow Metro Map
Being studied very intently by the man on the right. Looks like a tour group is coming through from the left… Source: cam17/Flickr
Photo: Tactile
I absolutely love this photo. You can see where countless fingers have traced paths on this map, resting on popular locations and wearing the paper through. This is a map that has been used, and I think it’s fantastic. Source: tjhallett1/Flickr
Official Map: Metropolitana di Napoli, 2012 (2 of 2)
As promised, here’s the second map of Naples’ Metro system. Unlike the previous example, this one shows all of the rail transit options available in the city, which presents a much more complete picture. Like the previous map, this map also presents something that I’ve never seen before on a transit map: a “Rainbow Line” (arcobaleno in Italian), where each station on the line is assigned its own colour. However, this map and station signage […]
Official Map: Metropolitana di Napoli, 2012 (1 of 2)
Following on from the last post, here’s a map of Naples’ Metro system. Strangely, there are two completely different maps of the system available on the official MetroNapoli website: probably because different transit agencies control different lines. MetroNapoli runs only Lines 1 and 6 and Naples’ extensive funicular system, which is what is shown on this map. I’ll cover the other map, which does show all services in Naples as a unified map in my […]
Photo: Napoli Metro Line 2 Diagram
There’s something just so very Naples about this map. Source: eddrass/Flickr
Advertisement: Metrovalencia Map for Air Travelers
One of a series of nifty advertisements for the Metro system in Valencia, Spain. This one highlights the system’s connections to the airport (via Lines 3 and 5); I’ve also seen other ones that form the shape of a shopping bag (to showcase the connections to the shopping districts of the city), and a bicycle (to indicate that bicycles can be taken on the system). These ads all tie into a previous iteration of the […]
WMATA Metro Map Doodle on Coffee Cup
Not half bad, either. Source: justgrimes/Flickr
Historical Map: Paris Metro Map, 1956
Transit maps today are created on computer, and printed with advanced technology. We think nothing of using many different colours, adding a drop shadow behind type, adding a gradient to the background, transparency effects – all things that state-of-the-art design software makes perhaps a little too easy. As a contrast to these glitzy new-fangled maps, I present an antidote: a simply stunning, beautiful and ever-so-French map of the Paris Metro from 1956. It’s printed with […]