The revamped design replaced Michael Hertz’s well-known spaghetti diagram launched in 1979 with a new map featuring bright, bold lines against a white backdrop that identifies each subway route ...

Beautiful design always makes lives better," while another added, "The NYC subway map is like pornography to me." Hertz's 1979 design vs the MTA's new 2025 map. | Credit: MTA ...

New York City's subway map has been largely unchanged since 1979, when a committee led by the Metropolitan Transit Authority laid those now instantly recognizable colors over the streets of the ...

“It did [have design implications] for New York design because the subway map is this iconic thing so many designers revere,” says Hustwit. “It’s the lifeblood of the city that uses public ...

The new design is also supposed to make the map easier to read overall. It’s the first time in 50 years that the MTA has issued a new subway map, ...

Transit officials are quietly testing out five new maps in a display at 86th Street station in Brooklyn -- including a subway diagram based off a controversial minimalist design from the 1970s.

Tauranac will share how he and his collaborators radically changed the direction of the subway map's design. After leaving the MTA, Tauranac kept making maps. His latest subway map was released in ...

Train-tracking decor piece Metroboard features a mid-century design and displays live locations of all trains in NYC, D.C., Boston, Chicago, LA, and Bay Area subways. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3, 2024 ...

Tauranac served as the creative director of the official New York City Subway Map published in 1979, guiding the shift from Massimo Vignelli’s abstract schematic design to a more geographic ...