![]() Years of different signage had cluttered the system so that trying to navigate it was difficult even for a seasoned rider. Vignelli and his company, Unimark, had a clear goal and ethos when they set out to redesign how New Yorkers use the subway. The 1972 Massimo Vignelli map of the New York subway. The professor went on and on about how revolutionary it was but, being the first time I had ever seen the map, all I could think was what an beautiful failure it was. ![]() ![]() Sitting in my Intro to Design lecture the professor was going through a series of influential designs from the 20th Century when the 1972 Massimo Vignelli NYC Subway map came up. When I was 18 I was a freshman studying Industrial Design at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. The MTA stepped in the right direction with its new interactive subway map.
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