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The now iconic “Vignelli” map featured a rainbow of different colors for each line, and ignored geography in an effort to make the city’s chaotic web of intertwining subway lines a neat and easily readable diagram. Discover more about the evolution of subway maps through the Museum’s new exhibit "Towards A Better Way: The “Vignelli ...
Designer Massimo Vignelli Revisits and Defends His Iconic 1972 New York City Subway Map. Most every dweller of a city with a robust public transit system comes to identify their boundaries with the lines, angles, and colors of its subway map. This is true of my hometown, Washington, DC, at least since the popular adop ...
The Great New York Subway Map. 1.1 x 58.4 cm) Gift of the designerThe story of New York City’s subway map begins many years before Massimo Vignelli designed the version tha. is now hailed as a design classic.Before 1940, the subway system was made up of three companies: Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), Brooklyn Manhattan Transit (BMT),
Oct 24, 2017 · You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City. Published on 24 October 201731 October 2017by Jonathan Crowe. An exhibition taking place now at the New York City Library, Picturing the City: Illustrated Maps of NYC, features 16 pictorial maps from the Library’s collection of illustrations. Running until 9 April 2018, it’s curated by ...
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May 28, 2021 · A Visual History of New York Told Through Its Diagrams, Maps and Graphics. Steven Guarnaccia and Pentagram New York, A Walk on 53rd Street, map for 53rd Street Association, 1987.. Image Courtesy ...
Dec 14, 2016 · NYPL's Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is home to almost half a million maps and approximately 20,000 atlases. Our collection of New York City maps spans a large swath of time, tracking the growth of the city from its early days as a small North Atlantic Dutch colony to its modern incarnation as one of the capitals of the globalized world.
