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: […]
After I posted about this fantastic 1978 book celebrating the Moscow Metro, reader Martin Vrba let me know that he had a very similar contemporaneous book about Prague’s Metro, and was kind enough to send along some photos. Of particular interest is the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划map, which shows projected extensions to the 1978 system (shown as solid lines) all the way up to 1990. There’s a few differences, but it’s basically very similar to the system […]
An amazing book describing the lines and stations of the Moscow Metro in detail, complete with lovely red and white system maps as well as layout diagrams of all the stations. It certainly makes me wish I could read Russian! Simply beautiful.
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 […]
Via: comiccartography: Tokyo Wan/Contents Florent Chavouet Tokyo on Foot Lovely contents page illustration/map from Florent Chavouet’s book, Tokyo on Foot. The map is dominated by the circular Yamanote Line, with thick “train track” route lines and bright red stations. More than anything else on the page, this circle seems to define “Tokyo”. Quite lovely.
🔸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 […]
Riffing off the Tube Map is not entirely a modern phenomenon, as this Penguin book cover from 1977 shows. (Re)design by John Carrod. Source: coversetc/Flickr
Altogether rather lovely. Source: Rumbling Jessie/Flickr
Forget the children, this is one of my favourite books! Buy on Amazon here (affiliate link). Source: Greenwillow Books website – link no longer active
