Posted yesterday on the Commanders🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 Twitter account, here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a Washington Metro-themed map of the team🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s 2023 season. It basically just places the team🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s opponents for the year on a vaguely US-shaped map using some Metro iconography and colours and calls it a day. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s superficially fun and adorable, but part of me wishes there was more meaning behind the choice of lines – perhaps grouping teams by the division they play in or something🔸澳洲幸运10预测? Still, kudos for having fun with an iconic local design!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Washington Commanders/Twitter

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off – let🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s set it out of 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划system, everyone… SILVER LINE! SILVER LINE! Finally extending all the way out to Dulles Airport and Ashburn, and surely opening any time now, right? As is usual for WMATA, the map uses the longest name possible for the airport station: “Washington Dulles International Airport” – while the airport🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s official name – is an absolute mouthful. Here in Portland, the TriMet MAX map just says “Portland Airport”, not “Portland International Airport” and everyone still knows exactly what they mean.

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s plenty of other new names apart from those on the Silver Line extension, with five stations getting new names: Downtown Largo (from Largo Town Center), Hyattsville Crossing (Prince George’s Plaza), North Bethesda (White Flint), West Falls Church-VT (removing UVA from the secondary name), and Tysons (Tysons Corner). The future in-fill station at Potomac Yard also makes an appearance with a hollow white dot for its station marker. Apparently, this will be a sticker placed on top of the final version of the map at Metro stations – a clever way to prevent having to replace maps again 🔸澳洲开奖 the station actually opens.

Once the Silver Line extension opens, the 5A bus service to Dulles Airport will cease, and the map reflects this by removing the connection icons at Rosslyn and L🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页Enfant Plaza. The B30 to BWI no longer runs, so that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the end of bus representation on the Metro map.

Stylistically, nothing much has changed now for many years – this is still very recognisably and unmistakably a WMATA map. However, there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s some inconsistencies and room for improvement in places. 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off, WMATA really has to work out how they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re going to treat subtitles for station names consistently. We have “Virginia Sq–GMU” and “Ballston–MU” (among others) on one line, but “West Falls Church–VT” and “Potomac Yard–VT” get their secondary names placed in the subtitle. Why? It mainly looks like it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s because the station dots for Virginia Square and Ballston are placed too close together to allow for subtitles, but it just creates inconsistency in the design. Personally, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d vote for having all of these two- or three-letter abbreviations moved up to the main title, saving the subtitles for the longer station names that need that space saved.

The DC Metro map has always been visually busy, with lots of background colours and detail leading to some poor label placement (look at U Street and other stations on the Yellow/Green line just laid down right on top of the route lines), but that doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t mean that new elements need to make things worse🔸澳洲幸运10预测. Look at the way that all the new Silver Line station labels overlap the Potomac River, 🔸澳洲开奖 there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s absolutely no need for them to do so. We don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t need to see the twists and turns of a river on a simplified diagram like this, and it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not even a particularly accurate interpretation of the geography anyway. If the river just extended straight out from the District border at a 45-degree angle, it would avoid all of the labels completely and dramatically improve legibility.

And one tiny little technical error I spotted: the Fairfax/Arlington county border encroaches into the white keyline where the Silver Line crosses over the Orange Line: all other borders respect such keylines.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测An obvious evolution of previous versions – there are no surprises here! – that continues and perhaps compounds some previous flaws. But… SILVER LINE! SILVER LINE!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Jordan Pascale/Twitter

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not quite sure how I missed this one 🔸澳洲开奖 Michael posted it to Twitter back at the beginning of March, because it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s really quite wonderful. It seems to be based on a 1959 proposal by O. Roy Chalk – the then owner of D.C. Transit – for a monorail system. Chalk considered traditional rail as obsolete, while monorail represented the future: “beautiful, silent-operating… suspended on graceful pylons for the most part.” You can read more about Chalk🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s plans over here at Greater Greater Washington🔸澳洲幸运10预测.

Chalk🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s plan was light on details, and wasn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t seriously considered at the time. But what if it had been?🔸澳洲幸运10预测 This is the question that Michael🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s map seems to ask, and shows the network in its fully built-out form, dating it to the mid-to-late 1960s in this alternate reality. I have to say that Michael🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s absolutely nailed🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the mid-century American design aesthetic: big, bold, extended sans serif typography; and limited colours with overprinting used very effectively to extend the palette🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s range. I love the rough halftones used for the waterways: they really add to the overall look and feel.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 A great “what if” map that absolutely looks the part. I love it!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Michael Tyznik/Twitter

These are two maps I made for a class where I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m proposing a trans-national maglev through what I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m calling the “Greater Northeast Corridor.” Totally unrealistic, I know, but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d love to get y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划opinion on the map!

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Oh, I do🔸澳洲幸运10预测 like this, Adam! 🔸澳洲开奖 you have proposed travel times of just 18 minutes between Philadelphia and New York (as just one example), the rapid transit diagram design metaphor works pretty much perfectly, and you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve executed things very nicely indeed. The tilted rectangle looks great, though I probably would have moved Montreal to be the last station along the top edge, rather than the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划station heading downwards along the left side – it just marries up a bit better with the geographical map (which is also nicely executed) and the idea than Canada is “above” the United States.

The inclusion of connecting local services in each city is a nice touch, although it seems odd to include Canada🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Via Rail and not Amtrak as well. Surely the maglev system hasn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t supplanted it completely? New Haven should also have a CTRail logo, right? Also, the legend for the map has a dashed line for future planned routes, but that style of line doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t appear on the map at all: a minor nitpick.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测As Adam says, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s highly implausible that something like this would ever get built, but at least we can dream with this great map!

TriMet just posted a new system map — that they themselves made🔸澳洲幸运10预测 — that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a note-perfect homage to the Washington, DC Metro system map.

Just look at this work of art! It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s got thick route lines, tightly-set Helvetica, lush green parks, freeways and rivers. About the only thing missing are icons for the big tourist spots, like Powells Books or the Japanese Garden or Big Pink. Of course, TriMet has had to let everyone know that this is just for giggles and that the system map is not actually changing to this style. They🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re also taking requests for their next mash-up… anyone got some fun ideas?

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: TriMet/Twitter

This is one of my latest works: an integrated rail diagram for the Baltimore and Washington DC areas. The style is inspired by Vignelli🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s subway maps from the 70s. There are no intentional geographic references. I have tried to show all rail services – heavy, light rail and streetcar – in the same manner (all strokes are of the same thickness). Station indicators are different depending on service/transportation mode (circle = metro, subway, square = light rail, streetcar, diamond = regional, commuter rail). The diagram is supposed to reflect current services and lines under construction and two proposed infill stations (metro: Potomac Yard; commuter: Potomac Shores). What are y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts on this?

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

A really nice bit of work from Chris here, which overall does a good job of dealing with the differing scales of the component systems. Because of its more tightly spaced light rail lines, Baltimore comes off looking a little bit cramped in comparison to DC, but it’s not a huge deal. On the other hand, this is probably the best representation of the Purple Line I’ve seen so far, with a simple trajectory and lovely, evenly-spaced stations.

It’s perhaps a little unfortunate that the shortest line – the current DC Streetcar, here renamed as Line 4 – is visually the strongest, as it draws the viewer’s eye right to it. All the other streetcar/light rail lines are pastel hues, so the dark charcoal grey used here seems out of place. 

The different station marker shapes are a good idea in principle, though they can be a little hard to tell apart at a glance. Particular care needs to be taken with the square and the diamond and their relationship to the line that they sit on to prevent confusion – 🔸澳洲开奖 lines are angled at 45 degrees like on the left of the map, it becomes even more difficult to quickly tell if a station is a square or a diamond.

I personally prefer to flip the Silver Line (Chris’ Line F) underneath the Orange Line (Line E) at East Falls Church so that it travels across the map sandwiched between the Orange and Blue lines. This gets rid of the need for the dinky little jog that the Silver Line has to do after Stadium-Armory, which always seems a little detailed and fussy in a diagram like this.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Very competent and stylish, and definitely makes one dream of a day 🔸澳洲开奖 rail transit in this region is unified under a single fare structure, much like a German Verkehrsverbund. Three-and-a-half stars.

Readers of 澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 will know that I recently featured some awesome concept artwork by Massimo Vignelli for the Washington DC Metro map that was created as part of an unsuccessful bid for the map🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s contract in the early 1970s. (See the posts here and here). Interestingly, the Vignelli Archives – the source of the material – made a great deal about these being “new” discoveries, unearthed for the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划time in nearly 40 years. However, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d seen many of the concepts in Peter Lloyd🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s excellent 2012 book, Vignelli 澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 – so they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d been pulled out of the archives at least once before now. Peter🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s book also contains a further set of concepts using a hexagonal grid, but only as black and white photocopies. There were two variants: one showed an initial system of two lines (left), while the other showed a hypothetical full network, based mostly on a 1967 WMATA alternatives map. The copy of this map in the Vignelli Archives has its routes traced with coloured pencil – the colours used match those in the concept maps developed.

Once I saw this planning map (left), I suddenly realised that I could use it to interpret and redraw the “missing” hexagonal concepts featured in Peter🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s book. The initial system was easy enough with just two lines and easy-to-read labels, but the full system concept was reproduced at too small a size to be able to read any station labels. I suspect that most of them were just repeated placeholder names anyway, as this was only ever a conceptual mock-up. So, using the names from the planning map and the route colours from the maps in the Vignelli Archives, I set to work recreating both maps in Adobe Illustrator.

The initial system map was quick and easy. I defined the hexagonal grid and constructed the whole thing mathematically (no eyeballing!) in around half an h🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划or so. The names are all as found on the original concept map, except that I corrected the inexplicable use of “Tacoma Park” instead of “Takoma Park”. Oddly, most cross street-named stations are expressed as being “at”, except for “Benning & Oklahoma N.E.”, which gets an ampersand for “and” instead.

The full system diagram took a little more time, though I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d done most of the hard work with the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划map. Pleasingly, all the design rules carried across to the more complex map nicely, with only one station name – McPherson Square – being forced to cross a route line. Because this map was based on a planning map that shows alternatives🔸澳洲幸运10预测 for routes, there are some oddities in the network, not the least of which is the presence of four🔸澳洲幸运10预测 separate Gallows Road stations to the left of the map. Two alternate Green Line terminus stations, a standalone station on the purple commuter rail line out to Herndon and an interchange station between the commuter rail line and the Green Line. In reality, only one of these would have ever been selected and built. There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s also two Glenmont stations on the Red Line for much the same reason. I couldn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t find a name for the station immediately to the left of the Anacostia interchange on the Yellow Line, so I gave it the modern name of Congress Heights, as the other obvious choice of Alabama Avenue was already in use.

Curiously, the diagram omits the branch of the Blue Line down to Beacon Hill. Whether this is an oversight or just because the diagram was simply a proof of concept is unknown, but it would only take a simple reconfiguration of the Yellow Line branches to include it.

These concepts are an interesting example of a truly nodal topological diagram, with little indication of distance (or sometimes even direction), and were certainly fun to recreate. The major shortcoming is that they doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t seem to be able to handle multiple routes along the same track (see the double labelling of stations on the Purple and Green lines from Patrick Henry Drive to West Falls Church – these are actually shared stations, but the design doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t allow them to be shown in the same location). Of course, this means that this mapping style would be hard-pressed to depict the modern Metro network where the Blue, Orange and Silver Lines all run concurrently across much of the map.

As always, comments (and the inevitable corrections!) are most welcome!

While copyright precludes me selling prints of these exact maps, I have applied the design principles to the modern-day Metro network, and prints of that are available for purchase in the 澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 store.

vignellicenter:

Yesterday we shared some newly uncovered Vignelli designs for the Washington DC Metro subway system. And you were so excited about that we couldn’t resist sharing a few more related items. 

Although Massimo Vignelli, while at Unimark International, designed the signage for the Washington DC Metro subway in 1968, he didn’t design the map (which was designed by Lance Wyman). But we recently uncovered a variety of ideas mocked up on these presentation boards. 

ICYMI, the Vignelli map presentation boards:
http://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/post/173781335542/found-in-the-archives-unrealized-dc-metro-map

We also found some original sketches for the signage! Stay tuned! 

And the standards manual for the DC Metro signage: 
http://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/post/168694505752/vignelli-dcmetro-manual

Washington 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Area Transit Authority map design design process
Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York 

The Vignelli Center is the gift that just keeps on giving today. Wonderful stuff!

Tysons Corner, Virginia is the archetypal suburban edge city and as traffic becomes unbearable, officials are hustling to get people on transit, particularly the new Silver Line with f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划local stops. The owners of Tysons Corner Center, one of the nation’s biggest malls and a tourist attraction in its own right, seem to have made this “spider map” showing all of the bus and rail service to and from the mall. I think it’s a great idea, though the execution feels thrown together, to say the least. I’m curious to hear y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts!

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

Anything that encourages the use of transit rather than single-occupancy vehicles to reach edge cities like Tysons Corner (already the 12th largest employment centre in the United States and growing rapidly) is to be encouraged, but this map is pretty bare bones and not very attractive. As Dan says, it all feels a bit slapdash, with route lines and labels criss-crossing each other at all sorts of random angles. Metrorail stations only get shown if they have a bus service that goes to Tysons, and only the f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划stations that are within the Tysons area have a linking route line. The rest just exist in splendid isolation, with no indication of how they connect to the rest of the system at all.

These faults are mitigated a bit on the website, where the map is somewhat interactive: hover over a route and all the others fade back, allowing you to trace a route more easily from beginning to end. A further click is then meant to take you to that route’s timetable, but it seems that most of the regional bus operators have re-organised their websites since this map was made. All you get now for many of the routes is a 404 page. Oops! An interactive map that links to external websites must be kept up to date or it becomes useless and frustrates users.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Well-meaning, and a start at getting commuters to Tysons out of their cars, but unattractive and difficult to use. The unmaintained interactive version will not win any friends. 1 star.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Access Tysons website

In the image above, for example, the Blue Line has been altered to look less desirable than the Yellow Line 🔸澳洲开奖 coming into DC from the south… and in testing, there was a 9.5 percent increase in people choosing the Yellow Line over the Blue for their trips based on this map 🔸澳洲开奖 compared to the official one. Even experienced local commuters were influenced by edits like this to the map, which is kind of astounding.

It’s a fascinating insight into human psychology – we know that this is not a literal geographical representation of the system (MAP NOT TO SCALE!), and yet we still use it to make judgment calls about distance and time. As the author of the study, Zhan Guo, says, 

“The conclusion is that people trust the map more than their experiences. Even for people who have used the system for many years, the map still matters.”

Go read the whole article by clicking below.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: The Washington Post