Transit Maps: USA

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, […]

Project: Interstates as Subway Diagram (Revised Version)

March 23, 2011

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My Transit Maps

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Adobe Illustrator, Cameron Booth, highways, Interstates, transit, transit map, USA

My original Eisenhower Interstate System in the Style of H.C. Beck’s London Underground Diagram is one of my most successful pieces of design, with countless posters sold, and inclusion in the excellent book Mapping America: Exploring the Continent (highly recommended for map geeks!). However, since I completed it, I have produced quite few more transit-styled diagrams and have learned a lot about the design skills required to produce them. As a result, some elements of […]