Saturday, May 5, 2007

Visual communication: redesign of NYC subway map


Eddie Jabbour's redesign of NYC subway map:
"The subway lines run parallel to one another, making the map easier to read, if slightly inaccurate. Each line is marked with a circle bearing the route’s letter or number, instead of oblong station markers. The map does not have a single line representing all the trains in a “cluster” route, like the 1, 2 & 3 trains in Manhattan. It uses the identical type font throughout, and words travel left to right, rather than diagonally. The lines bend only in 45-degree and 90-degree angles, to create a gridlike pattern."
(Source: infosthetics.com)