(And yes, Vignelli’s once derided, and now beloved 1972 map is on view, too.) Hence the inclusion of objects like a Pantone board showing all of the colors used by Unimark’s Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda when they designed the now-iconic scheme used to denote the various subway lines. “If we just said, ‘This was this map, and that was that map,’ it wouldn’t be as rich and full a story,” Bencivenga explains. New York Subway Guide, 1972 Unimark International for Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum
Some lines do not follow a logical street so I didn't name them.Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda’s 1972 subway map. We exist to live above ground, not underground, so I felt having a little knowledge about where the underground paths take you can give you some more agency over your experience in the subway. There's a disconnect between the subway, underground, and "reality" above ground. You'll see this a lot on the signs in the subway, so it's nice to know what it refers to. If you don't know what that means, it helps to see, highlighted, CONEY ISLAND/STILLWELL AVE.
For instance, BDFN & Q trains all have Coney Island/Stillwell Ave as one of their directions. Often, the directions for each train are referred to by their last stops. The terminus/direction of each train line.
The Strategy: Strip away individual stops and keep everything referring to two things:ġ. I've been working on it obsessively for hours at a time, for about four years. I conceived this about six months after moving to the city, when I still had the eyes of a newcomer, but the knowledge of a regular passenger. This is probably more useful/endearing to a person who has used the subway a lot. My main thesis was to explain the Big Picture of the subway system, describing the general arrangement of the system.
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