On Vignelli’s map, subway lines were enticing ribbons of color that ran straight up, straight down, or at a perfect forty-five degree diagonal. The Vignelli map wasn’t radical—it owed a ...

The Massimo Vignelli subway map (or, more accurately, subway diagram), introduced in 1972, was modeled after Harry Beck's simplified map of the London Underground, and modified aspects of New York ...

An archivist uncovered them last week. The modernist designer Massimo Vignelli is the father of New York City’s famous 1972 subway map. Turns out he had some ideas for Washington, D.C.’s metro ...

Yesterday, urban enthusiasts and design-philes mourned the death of Massimo Vignelli, the graphic designer who created the iconic 1972 subway map. Here’s a look at that famous map, from a ...

An Italian designer’s once controversial map of the New York City subway was so unpopular, straphangers demanded a replacement — but the elegant and informative diagram is making a comeback. Massimo ...

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 ...

In 2014, we mourned the death of Massimo Vignelli, the Italian graphic designer who created the famous 1972 subway map — so loved that it sits in the Museum of Modern Art’s postwar design ...

I’m glad it’s inspired by the iconic 1972 Vignelli map. Beautiful design always makes lives better," while another added, "The NYC subway map is like pornography to me." For more design ...

Massimo Vignelli, the influential graphic designer ... But his enduring legacy is with the MTA and his re-imagined subway map. The NY Times reflected on the 40th anniversary of the map: No sooner ...