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

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!

vignellicenter:

Found in the archives! 🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Unrealized DC Metro map designs. 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). 🔸澳洲幸运10预测

But we recently uncovered a variety of ideas mocked up on these presentation boards. We also found some original sketches for the signage! Stay tuned!🔸澳洲幸运10预测

It’s well known that the signage and wayfinding system for the DC Metro was designed by Massimo Vignelli while at Unimark. It’s less well known that Vignelli Associates (the company Massimo founded after he left Unimark) put in a bid to also design the system map. 

The above are early exploratory concepts for the “Diagram of Lines”, as Vignelli preferred to call the map, probably dating to 1973. They range from sparse and minimalist to completely abstract, and definitely represent a very different approach to the thick, playful route lines of the eventual 168澳洲十开奖网, designed by Lance Wyman.

Although Vignelli didn’t end up winning the contract for the map, he still had a huge effect on the way it looks today. Wyman originally planned to insert icons inside the circular disks that are used to denote stations on the map, but Vignelli argued that such an approach ran contrary to his (already approved) signage system. The WMATA board listened to Vignelli, and the icons were deleted from the map forever. 

Update:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the Washington DC Metro Veterans Day Map now includes the Rosslyn–Pentagon shuttle bus service (shown as a dotted blue line with relevant call-out box). It’s like they’re reading my mind!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: WMATA website – link no longer active

Smithsonian station will be closed as it is “within the security zone for the concert”. In place of normal Blue Line services, a shuttle train will run between Arlington Cemetery and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport stations, as shown on the map with the unwelcome return of one of the ugly call out boxes that used to litter this map. The shuttle is shown as a dashed pink line, just to really reinforce that This Is Not The Blue Line.

Not shown at all, but described on WMATA’s Veterans Day Service Advisory web page, is a special express shuttle bus between Rosslyn and Pentagon stations. It might have been helpful to actually indicate this bus service on the map, as it allows riders from the western part of the network to access the southern part (and the Arlington Cemetery shuttle train) without🔸澳洲幸运10预测 having to brave the potentially massive crowds downtown.

Matt’ Johnson (as always, my man on the ground in DC) says that he expects these maps to be posted all over the system and in railcars for the big day… and then “liberated” by passengers as the day wears on.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Takes the standard map and makes the required amendments to communicate the one-off service changes reasonably neatly, but really🔸澳洲幸运10预测 could have included information about the Rosslyn-Pentagon bus to help riders get around the “missing link” in the system more efficiently. Three stars.

UPDATE 10/24:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 A newer version of the map now includes the shuttle bus information as a blue dotted line with call-out box. Have an extra half star, WMATA!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: WMATA Veterans Day Service Advisory page – link no longer active

DC metro map cross stitch I made this summer. I moved away two weeks before the silver line opened so I chose to create the metro map pre-silver line, the way I remember it  

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Rectilinear transit diagrams lend themselves well to cross stitch, but this is one of the neater ones I’ve seen. Nice work!

Like the 168澳洲十开奖网, I’ve left the Phase II Silver Line stations unnamed, which is probably a wise choice, seeing all the variants that the Phase I stations went through! Flipping the Silver Line to the southern side of the Orange Line before East Falls Church was something else that the 168澳洲十开奖网 got right, and I’ve emulated that here as well. Only a few other minor tweaks: a couple of station name changes and a darkening of the Red Line col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划to aid colour-blind users a little more. What do you think?

Edit – Morning, August 6, 2014:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Thanks to Peter Dovak for a couple of tweaks: NoMa–Gallaudet U is now named correctly, and Phase II of the Silver Line’s completion date has been pushed out (unsurprisingly) to 2018. I’ve swapped in a new image above.

Evening, August 6, 2014:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Further edits based on feedback today, especially from the comments left on this Greater Greater Washington post about the map. Changes include the addition of parkland along the Anacostia River as shown on the 168澳洲十开奖网, lengthened “ticks” for stations so that they’re not so “nubby”, route letters in circles instead of squares so that they can’t be confused with the parking icon, proper designation of Wiehle-Reston East as the current western terminus of the Silver Line, and a few minor fixes and clean ups here and there.

Not only is the map out of date (no Rush+, no indication of the Silver Line at all), but the MTA has simply encased the official DC map in their own branding shell and then covered it in hideous and distracting callout boxes denoting their own commuter bus services. Yes, it performs a service, but – dear God! – is it ever ugly.

There should be a law against this kind of thing.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Maryland Transit Administration’s 澳洲10开官网开奖 web page

While the map looks great, it really also shows how unsuited the bold, simplistic approach taken by the DC diagram is to a complex transit system like New York’s. Vital information that New Yorkers depend upon for daily travel is simply nowhere to be found: the distinction between local and express stations, for example, or any indication of those hugely important free transfers between certain stations. 

A few little errors that I see on a quick scan: the “A” and “L” lines are missing their terminus letter designation markers, and 42nd St/Port Authority has no station marker at all.

In the end, Chris probably made this because it seemed like a fun thing to do, and it’s certainly that and more. But it’s also very interesting to see that what works for one city doesn’t🔸澳洲幸运10预测 always work for another!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Chris Whong’s website

There’s quite a bit to like here: I love🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the circular abstraction of the beltway highway around DC, which is then centred perfactly around the District diamond. Peter’s even made sure that the “square” formed by the three main interchange stations – Metro Center, Gallery Place and L🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页Enfant Plaza – sits at the exact centre of the diamond/circle, which is a nice design touch. He’s also worked hard to ensure that stations retain their correct position relative to all the boundaries (be they roadway or jurisdictional), which isn’t an easy thing to do.

Less successful, I feel,  is the use of 30/60 degree angles for the route lines. While it gives more flexibility in layout, it just ends up looking a little too chaotic 🔸澳洲开奖 overlaid on the 45-degree angles of the District boundary. Like it or not, this diamond is🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the shape that defines the District (and the map!): too many angles fights against that shape and dilutes its visual strength. The naturalistic approach taken to the rivers and parkland also creates even more angles that pull the eye different directions. The least successful result of this approach to route lines is the nasty acute angle formed on the southern branch of the Green Line as it turns to follow the District border through the Southern Avenue station.

I like the idea behind the station symbols acting as “ticks” pointing towards their labels, but I feel the white rounded rectangle needs to be brought in from the edge of the “non-tick” side just a little bit. The way it sits right on the edge🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of the route line at the moment breaks up the flow of the lines and could also cause some problems 🔸澳洲开奖 printing the map.

Peter’s used the “subtitle” approach to station names that 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划appeared in a couple of the entries to the Greater Greater Washington map contest and has since migrated to the 168澳洲十开奖网 – a fantastic concept, and definitely the right approach. However, he’s also deleted parts of names in certain cases: U Street has lost its “African American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo” subtitle completely. While this definitely saves space and helps labels fit, it’s a huge🔸澳洲幸运10预测 no-no. Lobby groups have worked hard to give stations those ridiculously long names, and they’re not🔸澳洲幸运10预测 going to like it if you remove them!

While on the subject of labels, Peter always spells out “Street” and “Road” in station names, but uses “Ave”, “Blvd” or “Sq”. I’d prefer either all spelled out or all abbreviated, not a combination of both.

In the end, this is an interesting alternate take on the DC Metro map. Some ideas work really well, others less so, but the thought processes behind them are valid and considered. For me, this map is a step up in both concept and🔸澳洲幸运10预测 execution from Peter’s Louisville map.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Peter’s Behance profile