Some lines do not follow a logical street so I didn't name them. We exist to live above ground, not underground, so I felt having a little knowledge about where the underground paths take you can give you some more agency over your experience in the subway. There's a disconnect between the subway, underground, and "reality" above ground. You'll see this a lot on the signs in the subway, so it's nice to know what it refers to. If you don't know what that means, it helps to see, highlighted, CONEY ISLAND/STILLWELL AVE. For instance, BDFN & Q trains all have Coney Island/Stillwell Ave as one of their directions. Often, the directions for each train are referred to by their last stops. The new Live Map of the New York City subway system is an example of how graphics can. This article was originally published on Domus 1066, March 2022. The terminus/direction of each train line. Work & Co’s MTA Live Subway Map reconciles years of deployment between Massimo Vignelli’s aesthetics and Michael Hertz’s functionality in the new digital map of the New York subway. The Strategy: Strip away individual stops and keep everything referring to two things:ġ. I've been working on it obsessively for hours at a time, for about four years. I conceived this about six months after moving to the city, when I still had the eyes of a newcomer, but the knowledge of a regular passenger. This is probably more useful/endearing to a person who has used the subway a lot. My main thesis was to explain the Big Picture of the subway system, describing the general arrangement of the system.
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