For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway ... But in the quest to make the subway lines simple and clear, it distorted the shape of the city above ...

The colors—the official MTA brand colors used in the 1979 and 1998 maps—pop off the white background, while the black dots representing the subway lines are meant to be ADA-friendly so those ...

With a simple black bar and some ... designed the New York City subway system’s iconic signage (as well as the beautiful but much loathed subway map used by the MTA from 1972 to 1979).

Massimo Vignelli, an Italian-born designer whose elegantly simple subway signs ... Introduced in 1972, the subway map unknotted and color-coded the mess of tracks and tunnels and simplified ...

while the abstract subway map provides a simple way to know where to change trains or how to get across town. The next year, Vignelli’s map was replaced by one designed by Michael Hertz ...

(Courtesy MTA) The new subway map was drawn in-house by the MTA’s Creative Services Mapping Department. “The white background, bold colors, horizontal writing and use of black dots make the ...

They created a very compelling visual interface to display the various processes; it looks very much like a subway map, but instead ... into making it clear and simple,” he said.