Hi Cam!

Like many here, I’m a longtime fan, transit map lover, and amateur mapmaker. I am originally from São Paulo, and as you already know, not only do we lack a system comprehensive enough to meet passenger demand, but we also lack a map that is well designed and aesthetically pleasing. With more than 12 million inhabitants, São Paulo is the largest city in the Americas and daily, more than 8 million people ride on the 340 km of combined subway and suburban rail lines that cross the metropolis. To better serve the needs of the population, several expansion projects are underway, with 3 new lines being built and 3 existing lines being extended.

These projects, once completed, will alter the layout of the transit network in the city and will need to be reflected on the map that is seen and used each day by millions of passengers – something today’s design cannot accommodate so effortlessly.

These changes provide an opportunity to seriously revaluate and rethink the current design, as well as to propose a new vision for the future – a vision that goes beyond just designing a good looking and functional map, but one that also aims to change how Paulistanos view their city and they move about it.

With this in mind, I finally followed through a long desire of mine to redesign the system’s map.

Although I can’t say I am too much of a fan of the recent wave of using concentric circles and radial lines to redesign several of the world’s major transit networks, I found that this approach works surprisingly well for São Paulo. This represents a radical departure from the actual design and breaks the restrictions imposed by the “standard” 45 and 90 degree angles currently in use, allowing elements (namely station names) to be better distributed and preserving a sense of geography near the center. Some distortion was inevitable however, given the length of the suburban rail lines that extend east and west.

My biggest concern though is the size of my map. I’m not so certain it could be easily implemented on the rolling stock, but I think it has potential to be used on stations, or maybe even in an app, where size is not an issue.

It would be great to get y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划feedback (and dare I ask, a rating) on this as this is really the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划transit map for a real-world system that I put together. I’ve worked on some smaller projects, but nothing as involved as this before.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

Like Nick, I’m not always an immediate fan of radial 澳洲10开官网开奖 – I believe that the shape of the city should guide the design, not the other way around. The conceit works perfectly for some cities (like Amsterdam, for example), but other circular designs are shoehorned onto cities that such an approach really doesn’t work for. 

While I’m not overly familiar with São Paulo, a quick look on Google Maps shows that it does have quite a circular structure, with ring roads readily apparent. So I think that a circular approach is definitely worth trying here, and the result is rather nice indeed. it’s certainly more aesthetically appealing than the 168澳洲十开奖网 (last reviewed back in 2012, but still very similar today). I really appreciate the effort taken to future-proof the map with the addition of lines currently under construction, and the comprehensive legend does a great job of explaining everything on the map.

I will say that I’ll never agree with labelling stations in the same col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划as their corresponding route line – it always creates a visual imbalance between the dark, strong colours and the light, recessive ones. Here (as always), the Yellow Line is the one that suffers the most.

While we’re on the subject of colours, Nick uses three small circles to denote services available at stations: blue for elevators, green for bike parking and red for car parking. This is problematic for colour-blind users, as the red and green dots look almost identical for them. Nick might consider using three different shapes to properly differentiate these simple icons – a diamond for elevators, a circle for bikes and a square for cars, perhaps?

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: A compelling reinvention of a complex network map. There’s a lot to like here! Three-and-a-half stars.

This is the network diagram of the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划company identity ever created for the São Paulo metro by Brazillian design agency Cauduro Martino, back in the late 1960s, 🔸澳洲开奖 the network was still being conceived – you can see several stations and line branches that didn’t succeed. Alongside with the map, they also delivered to the metro a big project of visual communications involving the logo – which is still used today – station signage and information guidelines. However, in 1971, the São Paulo metro company decided to ditch the project and switch firms to Unimark, where the present-day identity was (for the most part) created.

Although I personally like the São Paulo metro identity (except for the map, which I find very confusing), this one feels so much more special and unique. It’s a shame that it never could happen. 

I found both the map and its history in a master’s degree thesis by Olivia Chiavareto (PDF) on the metro’s signage design. Portuguese speakers should check it out, it’s very interesting – the map is on page 64.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

This is a great find, Frederico – a look at what might have been if Cauduro Martino had been allowed to continue their work, which I believe began in 1967.

This is a pleasingly modernist diagram, with a distinctive diamond shape – one that echoes the Metro’s logo almost exactly – serving as the main design focus… the “visual hook” that I so often encourage in diagram design. Interestingly, it would seem that even though this map was discarded, part of it still lives on through the Metro’s logo, which is rather neat. And of course, it’s always interesting to look at early conceptual renditions of networks and compare them to the current versions some 50 years later! (Last reviewed in 2012, though the current version is stylistically very similar.)

The line extends as far north as Santana (opened 1975), and the 1978 fill-in station at Sé (now the busiest station in the network) is also shown. This may be because this is some sort of planning or projected future map: the eye-poppingly bright “Metro area of influence” zones seem to support this, looking much like walksheds on modern transit planning maps. The map also shows bus ans taxi interchanges, main railroad lines, highways and the very approximate locations of neighbourhoods near the alignment.

See also: The modern São Paulo Metro map (Jan 2012, 2.5 stars)

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Anderson Reis/Flickr – link no longer active (free Flickr account)

Have we been there?🔸澳洲幸运10预测 No.

What we like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Comprehensive and all-encompassing. Great legend, even if it takes up more than half the sheet of paper it is printed on. I love the line names for the CPTM services – precious stones. It makes for some lovely and unusual colours on the map itself as well. Bilingual legend.

What we don’t like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Seems very cramped in places. The spacing on the Diamond line to the west of the city is far tighter than on the lines to the east. The grey drop shadow on the interchange stations (seemingly indicating light coming from the top left of the map) is ugly and unnecessary.

The whole thing is very busy, with dots everywhere – blue dots, green dots, white dots with green outlines, dots with an “E” in them – all of which need you to refer to the legend to determine their meaning. The need to show the logos of all the service providers on the map itself just adds to the visual noise.

Some routes seem unnecessarily complex for a diagrammatic map – the Yellow Line weaves all over the place, and why does the Lilac line need to jog northwards after it connects with the Emerald line at Santo Amaro?

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 A comprehensive look at transit in a huge city, but a bit of a mess, really. Two-and-a-half-stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Official Sao Paulo Metro website