Maps as Public Art
Today The New York Times ran this interesting story on the design and subsequent demise of a map of the NY subway system. Words and pictures need to go together, as the designer knew while the bureaucrats apparently did not. This reminds me of the mayhem a decade later that surrounded Richard Serra's 'Tilted Arch'; public opposition (no doubt orchestrated) did in both.
Labels: Cool Designs and Other Things, Graphics
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