Hi Cameron,

Well, I finally went and made a map after all the years berating other maps. So I throw it to you for amusement/ridicule, etc. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m deliberately not going to explain my design decisions in detail because I think it best to get feedback without colouring y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划judgement. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll be writing a blog on my thinking in the next week or two but I wanted to simplify and de-clutter more than anything. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve massively reduced vertices and changes in direction. Managed to get a diamond motif going that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a little nod to Mr Beck🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s original interchange symbol. I think a lot of station detail (accessibility, etc.) is better served in a list of stations rather than having everything on the map. This is also stage 1 of a 2 map process. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m currently making a 3D version as a bit of an experiment. Please go gently (or not)…

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Of all the tasks a transit map maker can set themselves, I think that redesigning the London Underground diagram has to be the most thankless of all. It really doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t matter how good the new version might be, people are going to grumble and complain about it – purely because the original thing is so ubiquitous that anything else just looks wrong🔸澳洲幸运10预测.

And to be honest, that was my 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划gut reaction to this map. Where🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the comforting “thermos flask” shape? What🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s that giant hump doing on the Circle Line? Diamonds?? So it took me a while to settle down and analyse the map in a more detached manner, and to appreciate its qualities.

The hump that I initially found so odd is actually more reflective of the real world arrangement of the stations at that point than the real Tube Map is, and the northern ends of the Jubilee Line and the Northern Line branches are also rather neatly arranged. Mornington Crescent is in the right place! The myriad diamond shapes are a nice repeating design element, though perhaps a little contrived in a couple of places – flipping Cheshunt back down to line up with Chingford is more than a little cheaty!

I really like the “walking feet” icon Ken uses to indicate a short walk between stations (“Out of Station Interchanges” in TfL parlance). It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s cheeky, informal and relaxed – all of which makes the walk look like the easiest thing in the world to do. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not so convinced by his symbol to indicate connections to National Rail stations. While it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s meant to symbolise railway tracks, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not a particularly punchy or memorable icon and also gets applied at lots of different angles, making it a bit visually inconsistent. At Euston, the icon gets laid over the Overground line simply because there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s nowhere else for it to go! A more immediately recognisable device like a stylised silhouette of a train (even an anachronistic Monopoly-like steam train for “main line service”) could work better here. Ken said he was reluctant to use the official National Rail icon, but I really think that icon would be almost instantly identifiable to just about anyone in the UK, explanation in the map🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s legend or not!

Ken uses an interesting device at terminus stations where one line folds in on another, allowing a single station dot to be used for all the lines. Some good examples can be found at Hammersmith and Ealing Broadway. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s rather lovely and quite unique, but it doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t seem to be applied consistently across the map. Why use it at Hammersmith but not at Richmond, for example? There may be a rationale behind this, but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not seeing it at the moment.

Some of the spacing and alignment of elements towards the outer edges gets a little weird because of Ken🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s desire to straighten everything as much as possible. A totally straight Central Line seems like a good idea (and very much in line with Beck🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s own design principles) but it pulls Uxbridge too far south, creating some really big gaps in the northwest quadrant. Harrow-on-the-Hill and Preston Road on the 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Line are very lonely indeed, while Watford and Watford Junction (less than a mile apart in real life) are now separated by a vast chasm of empty white space. And while this is a diagram, having Reading shown as being further east🔸澳洲幸运10预测 than Uxbridge is just jarring.

A few spatial errors from the actual Tube Map are repeated here – Acton Main Line should sit in the middle of all the other assorted Actons, and South Tottenham should be to the south🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of Seven Sisters, not north. This relationship becomes important if you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re implying a walking path and bearing between them on y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划map because – diagram or not – you just know that some users are going to interpret it as an actual map and try to use it for general wayfinding.

Ken🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s treatment of the Elizabeth Line at Farringdon and Barbican is interesting, as it implies that the line will call at both stations in turn. In reality, there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll be a new Elizabeth Line complex halfway between the two stations, but reachable from both of them… a “Barbingdon” station, if you will. Ken🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s treatment isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t wrong🔸澳洲幸运10预测, as you can get to an Elizabeth Line train from either station, but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not really right🔸澳洲幸运10预测, either.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 thing that the official Tube Map doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t get much credit for is how darn legible it is. Even at the small print size of the pocket journey planner, the station labels are always quite readable. A lot of redesigned maps – this one included – have much smaller type in comparison, and this limits their real-world application to large format posters and zoomable digital formats. Reproduced at the same dimensions as the on-line TfL Tube Map, Ken🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s labels are about half the size, which is pretty hard on the old eyeballs.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测I know it seems like I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m being pretty harsh on this map, but I do actually like a lot of the ideas contained within it. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s got a good graphic style and underlying design principles which could perhaps be applied a little more consistently. Spacing and spatial arrangement of elements towards the edges could also be refined somewhat. What I really do 🔸澳洲幸运10预测appreciate is the willingness and boldness to try something completely different (apart from Johnston Sans, Ken doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t use any of TfL🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s design language at all) and put it out there for everyone to see (and grumble about). And there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s obviously a deep understanding of – and affection for – this venerable design icon, as reflected in the wry note at the bottom of the map, almost exactly echoing the words on Beck🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s original edition in 1933:

Another new design for an old map by Kenneth Field. We should welcome y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划comments.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Check out the process and design notes for this map here.

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🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Answer: My absolute favourite Beck-drawn Tube Map is actually his unpublished 1961 Victoria Line proposal, which I wrote about in this post back in 2012. Go take a look at it – it’s simply gorgeous, with an arrow-straight lavender Victoria Line cutting directly across the map.

However, if we’re limiting ourselves to published Beck maps (those from 1933 through to 1960, 🔸澳洲开奖 he was unceremoniously dumped as the diagram’s designer), then I’d have to give the nod to the 1954–1858 version. Really though, anything from 1949 onwards is top-notch work and I’m really splitting hairs to determine a winner.

How do I love this map? Let me count the ways:

This is the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划version to represent the Circle Line as a perfect rounded rectangle, which looks fantastic. The 1949 and 1951 versions shoehorned the new line into the pre-existing setup, while post-Beck versions acquired the now distinctive “thermos flask” shape. 

The spacing of stations across the diagram is nice and uniform, with very few cramped-looking areas, even in the busy central portion of the map. This is really noticeable on the Northern Line between Finsbury Park and Old Street, which is beautifully spaced 🔸澳洲开奖 compared to the 1951 version.

Like that version, this one is also thankfully spared of having to show any of the planned extensions to the Northern Line that so cluttered up the map from 1946 to 1950: this is an immediate and obvious improvement!

Beck’s obsession with reducing the diagram to its barest rectilinear form – using an absolute minimum of diagonal lines – is starting to become evident, as he represents bifurcations of route lines completely equally, rather than presenting one as a branch line of the other. This is especially evident at the northern ends of the Northern and 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Lines. This approach is arguably less successful on the Thames than the route lines, as it looks a bit severe and fussy as it takes rigid 90-degree turns through London.

By this time, the diagram is really starting to look like what we expect a Tube Map to be, as viewed through 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划modern eyes. This version has thicker route lines compared to previous ones, and makes great use of the “white connector” interchange circles which are still in use on the Tube Map (and imitators!) today. Technically, the map is superbly drawn, with even, harmonious, flowing curves where the routes change direction – these curves also help the diagram look more like its modern counterpart. In short, this is where the last 20 years or so of Beck’s work on the diagram really, really gels into a cohesive, unified piece of design, and that’s why it’s awesome.

What’s y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划favourite Beck tube diagram?

However, it does bug me 🔸澳洲开奖 a map in this style fails to live up to the fundamental underlying design principles of the piece that inspired it, and that’s what’s happened here. Obviously drawing inspiration from H.C. Beck’s famous Tube Diagram (the oversized LU roundel really driving the point home with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer), this map was created to commemorate the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划few stages of this year’s T🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划de France🔸澳洲幸运10预测 being held in England. It’s a fun idea, and not without merit as a concept, but there’s far more to making a tube map than just putting some coloured route lines down on a page and calling it done.

Beck himself, ever in search of more simplification and rectilinearity in his Diagram, would simply not🔸澳洲幸运10预测 have approved of the twisty, torturous paths that these stage routes take. In his hands, Epernay to Nancy would have been represented by a simple straight segment (instead of needing three angle changes): Bourg-en-Bresse to Saint-Etienne by a clean diagonal line. Yes, there’s a desire to indicate the relative lengths of each stage here (making this a map/diagram hybrid of sorts), but there has to be a simpler, cleaner, more Beck-like🔸澳洲幸运10预测 way to do it.

In my opinion, if you’re going to make such a big deal about the source of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划homage, then a better adherence to the design principles espoused by that source can only make for a better end product. And I’m not talking about making a map that’s slavishly identical in every detail to the source: I have no problem with the substitution of what looks like Gotham for Johnston Sans, or the non-rounded corners where the routes change direction: that’s just window dressing on top of what really makes the Tube Map what it is – Beck’s never-ending quest for design clarity🔸澳洲幸运10预测.

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Shown here are the 40-plus “ghost stations” of the London Underground – stations that once existed as part of the “Tube”, but no longer do, for varying reasons. Some stations have since been demolished, but others have been transferred to operate under different services like the Overground or National Rail and still exist as a part of London’s greater transit network.

What’s really striking about this map is the huge reach of the Underground outside🔸澳洲幸运10预测 London. While only ever operated as a special “excursion” service, the journey to Shoeburyness (at the mouth of the Thames) from Central London on the District Line was around 45 miles (or 72 kilometres)! Heading out the other way, the furtherest reaches of “Metro-Land” at Brill and Verney Junction are some 60 miles (95 km) from the centre of the city.

Here’s the complete list on Wikipedia of all the stations shown, giving the reasons for closure and whether the station is still extant or demolished. Good reading!

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A couple of great photos showing the unique Underground Map-themed livery on GB Railfreight engine 66721. The left side of the engine shows a portion of the original 1933 H.C. Beck design, while the right side shows the corresponding part of the 2013 Tube map. I believe that this engine  is used to perform maintenance work on sections of the Underground, so the theme is certainly appropriate, as is the engine’s name plaque, seen in the lower image – “Harry Beck”

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Michael Thorne/Flickr – top image | bottom image

Feeling creative? Why not make a string art replica of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划favourite subway system as shown in this awesome video? The pro tip is definitely the taping down of the actual map before🔸澳洲幸运10预测 putting in the nails for guaranteed fidelity to the real thing.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Dan Coffey/Vimeo

This one is by Maxwell Roberts, an expert on the London Underground map if there ever was one. He’s personally redrawn multiple, multiple versions of the map in just about every possible configuration, just to see what works and what doesn’t. Many are featured in his excellent book, Underground Maps Unravelled🔸澳洲幸运10预测, which I promise I’ll review properly one day.

Wisely, Roberts has confined his map to the traditional view of Greater London itself, with trains headed to distant places given an arrow pointer towards that destination.

Interestingly, most of his route lines radiate out from a central point, but some run parallel to other routes instead. This makes the design less rigid to a design ideal, but also upsets the visual flow of the diagram in a couple of places – I find the parallel Bakerloo and 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Lines in the northwest part of the map quite jarring.

Roberts’ interchange stations are much tighter than Fisher’s, looking far more like “traditional” Tube Map markers, but some are still very convoluted in making their connections between lines, such as at Farringdon/Barbican.

The London Underground logo “hidden” in the Circle Line is a bit of a gimmicky design affectation, although it actually works surprisingly well in the context of the diagram.

Overall, I think this version is more successful than Jonny Fisher’s, although I still don’t really see it as a viable alternative to the current 168澳洲十开奖网. Neither does Mr. Roberts, who says, “Overall though, I don’t think I will be sending this one to TfL for comments. No great advances in usability here, but it was fun to make it.” Three-and-a-half stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Going Underground blog – click through for more detailed analysis from Maxwell Roberts himself

Have we been there?🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Yes.

What we like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 A bold attempt at a redesign of possibly the most well-known transit map of all. The “orbital” theme actually makes a lot of sense: London already has a Circle Line, and the Overground does🔸澳洲幸运10预测 form a looser larger circle around that. As a map designer myself, I can certainly appreciate the skill and effort that’s gone into making this look as coherent and attractive as it does.

What we don’t like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Station labels set in all lower case text… ugh! 🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Inclusion of far-distant Thameslink stations like Brighton, Peterborough and Kings Lynn (97 miles from London and – from my understanding – no certainty to be a part of the final Thameslink Programme) is faintly ridiculous and leads to some awful crowding of station names in the north eastern quadrant of the map. Inclusion of the Tramlink services in southern London may have been more warranted, and would have helped with the “orbital” theme of the map.

Lack of differentiation betwen the different types of service shown, even in the legend, which opts for a pretty “rainbow”  of route lines instead. The colours may be in order, but the types of services are all mixed up. As the Underground operates at far greater frequencies that the mainline and rail services, this is an important distinction to make.

Some of the bigger interchange stations are now inordinately large: it looks as if you have to traverse across large parts of London to change from the Circle Line to the Victoria Line at Kings Cross/St. Pancras, for example.

I miss the Thames.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Interesting new look at something familiar, if flawed. Two-and-a-half stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Massingbird.com via Londonist

A lovely little Edwardian piece of whimsy to welcome the weekend.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Annie Mole/Flickr

It’s not very often I get to combine two of my absolute favourite things in one post: Doctor Who🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and 澳洲10开官网开奖! Without giving too much away (spoilers, sweetie!), the tin is presented in-story as being from 1967, and it looks like the BBC props department did a pretty decent job. The map shown on the tin is indeed Paul Garbutt’s 1964 map, which can be differentiated from the very similar 1970 map – even on-screen like this – because of the enlarged “U” and “D” in the “UNDERGROUND” roundel. By 1970, all letters in the logo were the same height.

There is actually a very clever point to the exact dating of the tin to 1967, but again… spoilers!