Official MTA map of the New York Subway.

With over 12 million downloads worldwide this NYC subway map is free to download and will help you navigate around New York using the subway system. bowed to public pressure by replacing his diagrammatic map with a geographical one.New York Subway uses the official MTA subway map and includes a helpful transit route planner. Vignelli’s design to what they found above ground. But many New Yorkers were outraged by what they saw as the misrepresentation of their city, while tourists struggled to relate Mr. When the future graphic designer Michael Bierut made his first trip to New York in 1976, he took one home to Ohio as a souvenir. Vignelli had used his design skills to tidy up reality.ĭesign buffs have always loved his map for its rigor and ingenuity. Each station was shown as a dot and linked to its neighbors by color-coded routes running at 45- or 90-degree angles. Its designer, Massimo Vignelli, had sacrificed geographical accuracy for clarity by reinterpreting New York’s tangled labyrinth of subway lines as a neat diagram. The map was, indeed, riddled with anomalies, but that was the point.

As for Central Park, it appeared to be almost square, rather than an elongated rectangle, three times bigger than the map suggested, and was depicted in a dreary shade of gray. The water surrounding the city was colored beige, not blue. Many stations seemed to be in the wrong places. No sooner had the Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced a new map of the New York subway system on Aug. Massimo Vignelli 1972 NYCTA New York Subway Guide

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