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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'massimovignelli'

April 24, 2008

Design geeks and subway enthusiasts, time to swoon: Massimo Vignelli, whose beloved and controversial 1972 subway map is in Museum of Modern Art, has updated his map for 2008 for Men's Vogue. Men's Vogue revisited the 1972 map's path:The plan was as visually utopian as it was elegant — paths running on 45- and 90-degree angles, an understated gray square marking Central Park, and type set in clear Helvetica. It was hailed as an......

Continue Reading "Map of the Day: Vignelli's Subway Map, Updated"

August 3, 2007

In a constantly changing city, it's impressive to realize that New Yorkers have had essentially the same subway map for almost 30 years. The current map varies only in detail from the one that Michael Hertz and the MTA presented to the public in 1979. Its predecessor map's design is primarily credited to Massimo Vignelli, and it was criticized as being too abstract. Hertz was hired by the MTA to create a new map that......

Continue Reading "Michael Hertz, Designer of the NYC Subway Map"

April 23, 2007

We were one of many interested sites examining the Kick Map nearly three years ago, when word of a new subway map design started to filter through the Internet. The new map departed radically from the MTA's current design by graphically displaying separate trains running on the same lines. Encouraged by the interest being shown, map designer Eddie Jabbour contacted the MTA and designers at the agency agreed to meet with him.But when he showed......

Continue Reading "Kick Map Finds Its Way to MTA"

August 25, 2004

This has been floating around for a while, but we're only getting around to posting about it now: Eddie Jabbour, a designer from Kick Design, has proposed a new kind of subway map (above left) to the MTA that would delineate subway lines more clearly and not bother subway riders with information about the MTA's other lines (like Metro-North) which make the current map (above right) cumbersome. An old Newsday article notes two of the......

Continue Reading "Subway Map Revolution"

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