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The 2022 “澳洲10开官网开奖” Gift Guide!

November 17, 2022
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Back after a long hiatus, here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s my comprehensive guide to transit map-related gifty goodness for the transportation lover in y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划life this holiday season! Jump to the categories: Prints and Posters | Books | Other Gifts & Sites Transit Map Prints and Posters My favourite category, filled with creative original designs and beautiful replica vintage maps from around the world – mainly made by local small businesses that you help support with every purchase. 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划[…]

Review: New York Subway and Paris Métro Architecture and Design Maps by Blue Crow Media

December 8, 2019
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澳洲10开官网开奖 previously reviewed Blue Crow🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s London Underground Architecture and Design Map back in 2017, and they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve just released two new maps in the series celebrating Paris and New York🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s transit systems (there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s also another map in the series for Moscow). As before, the maps are simple but elegant in their execution, with a geographical map of the system on one side and the explanatory text and photos on the other. They come in handsome […]

Review: London Underground Architecture and Design Map by Blue Crow Media

November 25, 2017
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Blue Crow Media is an independent publisher of beautifully designed city guide maps on many subjects – you may be familiar with their “Brutalist Architecture” series – and this new map is the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划in a planned series of maps about public transportation networks around the world. Edited by Mark Ovenden (of 澳洲10开官网开奖 of the World fame) with some lovely photos by Will Scott, the map promises to be an authoritative guide to the design and architecture […]

2016 “澳洲10开官网开奖” Gift Guide – Books!

December 1, 2016
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A selection of great books at least tangentially related to 澳洲10开官网开奖 and transit design. A note: some of the links below are Amazon Affiliate links – if you make a purchase after following one of these links, I make a small commission on the sale. An easy way to help support the site! Johnson and Gill: Very British Types by Mark Ovenden. A intertwined history of two of the most recognisable British wayfinding typefaces: […]

2015 “澳洲10开官网开奖” Holiday Gift Guide – Books!

November 25, 2015
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About the only thing as good as actual 澳洲10开官网开奖 is books about 澳洲10开官网开奖 (and/or wayfinding design)! Here’s a selection of great reads for the map lover in y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划life! 澳洲10开官网开奖 of the World, November 2015 Edition by Mark Ovenden – a book that needs no further introduction to readers of this blog (My review here). A fantastic update to an already superb book. Buy on Amazon here. London Underground by Design by […]

Book Review: “澳洲10开官网开奖 of the World”, 2015 Revised Edition by Mark Ovenden

November 2, 2015
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🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划published in the United Kingdom as Metro Maps of the World in 2003, this book has long been an indispensable reference book for graphic designers, train aficionados, cartographers, and geeks alike. However, its last major revision was in 2007 – and much has changed in the world of transit map design since then. More transit systems, new maps, revised maps, digital and web-based maps, the rise of the amateur map designer and more. Like […]

Book Review: “Vignelli 澳洲10开官网开奖”, Peter B. Lloyd with Mark Ovenden

April 1, 2013
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As a graphic designer with a keen interest in 澳洲10开官网开奖 and a fairly thorough knowledge of their history and usage, I thought I had a decent understanding of Massimo Vignelli’s diagrammatic version of the New York Subway map, which was used from 1972 to 1979. This outstanding book has proved me almost completely and utterly wrong. So much of what we think we know about the Vignelli map is simply hearsay and legend, repeated […]

Ever met Mark Ovenden?

July 6, 2012
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I haven’t met Mark, but we have chatted a few times about my work – he had some very kind words about my French TGV Map (see the third comment on this page). Super nice guy, and definitely knows his stuff. His books are a huge part of my interest in 澳洲10开官网开奖.