New and Improved

Here’s a great slideshow of Massimo Vignelli’s recently-updated New York sub­way map (the orig­i­nal was designed in 1972). Unsurprisingly, it is still just as beau­ti­ful, clean extremely easy to use. So I can’t fathom why the city wouldn’t ditch the cur­rent ver­sion for this far supe­rior design.

Vignelli map

Apparently Men’s Vogue was also dis­trib­ut­ing free copies of the new and improved design in their May 2008 issue after the 500 pre­vi­ously released signed prints had sold out. I can’t believe I missed this!

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This entry was written by Courtney, posted on November 6, 2008 at 9:00 am, filed under Design and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. kate
    Posted November 6, 2008 at 11:10 am | Permalink

    oh DAMN, I wish I could get my hands on that! It’s so much eas­ier to read!!

  2. John
    Posted November 6, 2008 at 2:02 pm | Permalink

    I’ve seen this and always wanted to get a copy for myself. I would get lost lit­er­ally half as much if I had this with me.

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