A few weeks ago, Sarah Meyer had a dream. She was riding on Amtrak when there was a problem with the train, and she was forced to get off in a New York neighborhood she didn’t recognize. Lost and ...

In 1978, The Cooper Union, an art school in New York City, held a debate between two designers that would determine the future of information design for the largest public transit system in the world.

The MTA has unveiled a brand new map for the NYC subway, and while some commuters are a little hesitant about the change, design fans are delighted by the new look. The new map has been praised for ...

New York may get a reboot of the iconic 1970s subway map, if it likes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is currently testing an update in nine stations, including Times Square and Grand ...

“All the people of the boroughs meet together, pass each other, need each other in the subway and the voting booth,” said Dagata and Heinz in a statement from the CFB. Over 700 designs were submitted ...

Five years ago, Max Roberts's reimagining of the NYC subway map as one based on concentric circles blew our minds. Now, he's got an updated version of the concentric circle map—but now with Massimo ...

The MTA released Wednesday the first wholesale update of the New York City subway map in nearly 50 years, reminiscent of the iconic 1972 subway map designed by Massimo Vignelli. “It’s not every day ...

A few years ago, we were presented with a map of the New York City subway system that reimagined it in concentric circles. Mapmaker Max Roberts created this design to visualize the city’s cohesiveness ...

New York City's subway map has been largely unchanged since 1979, when a committee led by the Metropolitan Transit Authority laid those now instantly recognizable colors over the streets of the five ...

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