Photo – Bus Maps Can Be So Hard To Read…
Ha! Love the way the cracks under the remnants of the map seem to form their own roads and streets. Great title for this photo, too. Source: JSDesign/Flickr
All posts tagged: USA
Photo: LA Metro Red and Purple Lines Strip Map
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the Los Angeles Metro system has one of the most coherent, unified transit agency corporate identities out there. It’s used intelligently and consistently across the entire system – from maps, station signage and onto their website and collateral. Distinctive without being extrovert, it displays information simply and effectively, and looks good while doing it. Source: tracktwentynine/Flickr
Fantasy Map: DC Subway Map from “Leverage”
Just good enough to pass for the real thing when fleetingly seen in the background of a TV show. The map uses real DC Metro station names, but they’re all in the wrong places. The “corporate identity” uses the colours from the old TriMet livery… which is kind of neat, seeing as the show is filmed in Portland, TriMet’s base of operations. In the show, I believe that the Washington Park MAX station (the only […]
Unofficial Map: New York Regional Rail by Jake Berman, 2010
Directly related to the last post, here’s another map of greater New York’s regional rail. Designed by Jake Berman in 2010, this map takes a completely different approach to Carter’s work. It uses colour-coding to differentiate between agencies, rather than routes, and shows services as main lines and branches, rather than showing each and every route along their entire length. This makes for a simpler-looking, more compact map, although it means that the map doesn’t […]
Unofficial Map: New York Regional Rail by Carter Green
To say I’m excited to share this map with you would be an understatement. In August, I was contacted by Carter Green, a high school student who had been inspired by my maps (especially my map of French TGV routes) and had created his own of regional rail services in and around New York City. He asked whether I would mind taking a look at it, which I did. Immediately, I was impressed with the […]
Photo: Buried Treasure!
An extra-special new subway line in Queens. Source: DYFL/Flickr
Photo: Where Am I Again?
A marked-up map sitting on my desk of transit projects in Seattle somehow ends up looking uncannily like the New York subway map.
“Subway” by Christoph Niemann, 2010
Forget the children, this is one of my favourite books! Buy on Amazon here (affiliate link). Source: Greenwillow Books website – link no longer active
Historical Map: Boston Commuter Rail, 1976
Here’s a fine piece of mid-1970s transit map design, showing Boston’s extensive commuter rail network. Its style is definitely in line with other North American maps of this period, including this one of Philadelphia’s SEPTA system from 1980 – sharp lines and clean typography were the order of the day back then, it seems. Have we been there? I’ve been to Boston, but haven’t used the commuter rail system. What we like: Clean, clear and […]
“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