For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City ... designer Massimo Vignelli, who decided that the only way to make the spaghetti tangle of subway lines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hermann/Courtesy MTA) This week the MTA rolled out a new map of the New York City subway ... The famous Massimo Vignelli subway map lasted between 1972 and 1979. (Courtesy MTA) The subsequent ...

One of the world’s most iconic and controversial maps just got a major redesign. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York ... 1972 subway map designed by Massimo Vignelli ...

replaced the Vignelli map in 1979. The familiar beige map has gently curving subway lines, a street grid, and clearly defined landmarks and parks. The subway system sprawls out over New York like ...

By Stefanos Chen When it comes to the New York City subway ... than map — that split New Yorkers a generation ago. The 1972 Unimark map, created by the designers Massimo Vignelli and Bob ...

First, transit officials in New York City said goodbye to the Metrocard. Now the MTA is waving farewell to another transit icon: the famed subway map. “This is a lynchpin moment,” said MTA ...

Tauranac served as the creative director of the official New York City Subway Map published in 1979, guiding the shift from Massimo Vignelli’s abstract schematic design to a more geographic ...