MetaFilter posts tagged with map and design

River Transit Maps

sambosambo — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:58:20 -0800

Inspired by Harry Beck's London Underground maps, Daniel Huffman designed a series of stylized river maps for Michigan, North and Central California, Southwest New England, The Colorado River, Columbia River, and The Mississippi River. He also writes about the process he used in creating them.

Can a subway map really be "mongrelish?"

auto-correct — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:37:35 -0800

Three subway map design titans come together in one room to debate form versus function in NYC's transit map

For font nerds AND map nerds.

jacquilynne — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:16:23 -0800

Typographic Maps. "These unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type."

One map's journey

Casimir — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:02:10 -0800

The KICKMap has come up previously on MeFi (1, 2, 3). In this article, designer Eddie Jabbour elaborates his approach and offers a detailed comparison with current and past NYC Subway map designs.

underground designs

nickyskye — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:21:50 -0800

The World's Best Alternative Subway Maps, including Eddie Jabbour's NYC Kick Map.

green design

nickyskye — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:52:21 -0800

Ecoble, an environment design and living site includes some interesting stories and info: Man (Re)Builds Mexican Island Paradise on 250,000 Recycled Floating Bottles l Who Has the Oil? Geography of the World’s Most Contentious Resource l BituBlock - The Sustainable Building Block Built from Trash and Sewage SpiralIslanders, Richie Sowa's blog and social network l Wiki: Spiral Island l

I think the dragons be somewhere on the other side of Mordorsoft Mountains.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:59:09 -0800

The Web Is Agreement: a poster (large, huge) designed by Paul Downey.

MIND THE GAP

normy — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:44:45 -0800

Harry Beck's famous map [current 287K .gif version] of the London Underground has a long history and is often praised as a definitive example of excellent information design. Many consider it unimprovable, but that doesn't stop many others trying. The latest variant is a project by Oskar Karlin, redesigning the map to illustrate journey time [warning: large, slow loading .pdf]. [partly via]