Cameron Booth is a seasoned graphic designer. In his spare time he also edits transitmaps.tumblr.com, the web’s finest emporium for bus maps, subway diagrams, train network maps and more. We ...

However, diagramming tools (or using a design app as a diagramming tool) can feel like navigating a messy whiteboard. I end ...

Prior to Beck’s version, London Underground map, 1908. Duncan Hull Seven steps to heaven. Beck understood that his aim was a conceptual diagram, where the clear purpose of ease of navigation to ...

Changes to six lines of the London Overground mean an update to a 1931 design that went global, even sparking an uproar in 2009 when the River Thames was taken off the map.

[Image: MTA] The new subway map is more than a little reminiscent of the iconic, if once controversial, subway map from 1972. Created by legendary designer Massimo Vignelli and his team at the New ...

The first Tube map, by Harry Beck, was published in 1933 and used an “electrical wiring diagram” design to simplify the network. Until then, maps had been based on the city’s topography.