On that evening inside Cooper Union’s Great Hall, Italian designer Massimo Vignelli attempted, in vain, to defend his abstract map of New York City’s subway system against the push for a more ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York has unveiled ... cross a stylized map of the city in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal orientations. More abstract than the previous ...

New York City’s subway system has a new map with ... [Image: MTA] The new abstract maps are coupled with more geographically accurate maps of the city’s bus system, offering more detail ...

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 ...

the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. In fact, it was more than beautiful: it was a nearly canonical piece of abstract graphic design, the work of the ...

New York's Metropolitan Transport Authority has released a redesigned map of its subway system, which maintains the colours of the prior one while "simplifying" it. The redesigned map was unveiled ...