Next Tuesday evening at Cooper Union, some of the titans of New York City subway map design will convene alongside map aficionados to talk shop. The setting is auspicious, as back in 1978 Cooper Union ...

The map of New York City’s subway may be getting a makeover. Six new map designs have popped up inside the 86th Street station in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The maps currently works in progress and the MTA ...

Five years ago, Max Roberts's reimagining of the NYC subway map as one based on concentric circles blew our minds. Now, he's got an updated version of the concentric circle map—but now with Massimo ...

The subway map, as New York knows it, is now a thing of the past. The MTA unveiled on Wednesday a brand new, detailed schematic of the subway system — the first fully redesigned subway map in nearly ...

In 1978, The Cooper Union, an art school in New York City, held a debate between two designers that would determine the future of information design for the largest public transit system in the world.

The MTA has unveiled a brand new map for the NYC subway, and while some commuters are a little hesitant about the change, design fans are delighted by the new look. The new map has been praised for ...

An archivist uncovered them last week. The modernist designer Massimo Vignelli is the father of New York City’s famous 1972 subway map. Turns out he had some ideas for Washington, D.C.’s metro as well ...

Can a game inspire DC residents to advocate for the transit systems they want? Subway Builder could help us find out.

When David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler moved to New York in the early 2000s, both graphic designers found themselves less than enthused by the city’s subway map. “We were shocked,” says Heasty, who ...

Michael Hertz, the graphic designer who helped make the New York City subway system legible for over 4 million riders a day, has passed away. He was 87. Hertz’s son Eugene confirmed his death, telling ...