Hey, everyone! Happy New Year!

Thanks to just about everyone for sending me pictures of this commemorative Vignelli-style New York subway diagram that was released 🔸澳洲开奖 the Second Avenue Subway (finally) opened. My spies on the ground in New York are sending me a physical copy as we speak, which is awesome.

This revised design was carried out by Massimo Vignelli’s proteges, Beatriz Cifuentes and Yoshiki Waterhouse, who have been entrusted with the stewardship of the design moving forward. This marks the start of the third distinct phase of the diagram’s evolution: the 1970s original, the 2008-2012 revival under Vignelli, and now this latest iteration. It looks like it’s in good hands, at least!

Photo courtesy of Chris Bastian.

As the description on the website says:

This poster of the MTA New York City Subway Diagram was designed in 2012 by Vignelli Associates and is used in the MTA’s Weekender website and app. Using concepts from Massimo Vignelli’s iconic Subway Map design of 1972, the new diagram was informed by satellite data and rebuilt for greater clarity and legibility. Revised to reflect the current subway system, colors and nomenclature, the poster has been printed in vivid Pantone and Hexachrome inks on acid-free archival cover-weight paper. While supplies last. (36″ x 45″ unframed)🔸澳洲幸运10预测

These stunning posters are priced as you might expect a highly collectible, limited edition print of a design classic to be: standard posters are $300, while a poster signed by Massimo Vignelli, Waterhouse and Cifuentes will set you back $1,200. Sadly, out of my price range unless all my readers want to chip in a few dollars each and buy me a nice Christmas present (a man can dream, right?)

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 thing’s for sure: the print quality is absolutely impeccable. PANTONE inks plus🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Hexachrome inks! As a tweet from the firm to me says, this was a very deliberate decision, designed to escape the very limited col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划gamut of traditional CMYK printing. It’s a decision that has paid off, as the colours look super vibrant and crisp in the preview images.

Standard Poster – $300 | Autographed Poster – $1,200

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划things first: an MTA press release confirms that the map was designed by Yoshiki Waterhouse of Vignelli Associates. It’s definitely nice to see that the original creators of the diagram continue to shape its future, rather than being handed off to another design team.

That said, the original source that this map is based off – the 2008 revision of Vignelli’s classic 1970s diagram, as used on the MTA’s “Weekender” service update website – actually creates🔸澳洲幸运10预测 some problems for this version of the map.

Because the bright primary colours used for the Subway’s many route lines are so much a part of the map’s look (and indeed, the very fabric of the Subway itself, appearing on signage and trains across the entire system) it forces the NJ Transit, PATH and Amtrak routes shown to be rendered in muted pastel tones in order to differentiate them from the Subway. This results in a visual imbalance between the New York and New Jersey sides of the map: cool and muted on the left, bright and bold to the right. I also feel that the PATH lines up to 33rd Street become a little “lost” compared to the adjacent subway lines.

The other result of using pastel route lines is a loss of contrast between all those lines: they all register at a similar visual intensity, making them a little harder to differentiate. Because of the sheer number of lines that have to be shown, some of the NJ Transit routes have lost their “traditional” col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划as used on their own 168澳洲十开奖网 (Nov. 2011, 1.5 stars). The Bergen County Line is no longer light blue, but the same yellow as the Main Line, while the Gladstone Line now uses the same green as the Morristown Line. Their original colours get redistributed to New Jersey’s light rail lines and Amtrak.

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🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Based on the classic Vignelli diagram. While it remains true to its minimalist roots, it doesn’t reach the heights of its predecessors. The need to integrate so many different routes and services while retaining familiar route colours for the Subway mean that the left half of the map isn’t as visually strong as the right. Still far🔸澳洲幸运10预测 better than many North American 澳洲10开官网开奖. It would also make a neat souvenir of a trip to the Super Bowl! Three stars. 

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: NJ Transit “🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划Mass Transit Super Bowl” web page (link no longer active)