Dedicated to the science and art of transit map design.
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, UK
Joined November 2020
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And if you prefer your tube map a bit more circular, here goes. London Circles Air Conditioning Tube Map.
In case no one has done this before, here is the air conditioning tube map. Good news, Piccadilly Line and Docklands Light Railway are both scheduled to have fully air conditioned trains. If you are not on the Underground, don't worry, all commuter trains are air conditioned.
No time for maps lately, but designing in Lego is also schematisation: Taking reality and trying to express its essentials with simple rules. My Edwardian Underground platforms are finally going to have a station building above them, inspired by Leslie Green, but more Art Nouveau
Oh dear, Northern Powerhouse Rail got off to a bad start. It seems that an AI-generated map was circulated. Actually, this is so bad I wonder whether the original post by the politician was genuine.
Always a pleasure when a Retours article is published, the website archives a treasure-trove of beautiful posters and maps
New RETOURS episode about GDR railway posters!
Even though there was no competition, East Germany was not devoid of advertising. Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) promoted new timetables, discounts, vacancies or tourism. Design was on par with the West.
retours.eu/en/63-GDR-posters…
Speaking of anniversaries, I’m astonished I missed this: Last year @markovenden “Metro Maps of the World” (now “Transit Maps of the World”) celebrated its 21st birthday, a landmark book selling tens of thousands of copies and essential reading for lovers of transit maps.
Looking at a book on Amazon. Every single one of their recommendations is sponsored, gone are the days when they used data to make genuine recommendations. Why do people use this horrible website?
Ten years ago today I completed one of my favourite maps, the Chicago El network inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. It became one of my five viral designs, and not a circle in sight! linkedin.com/posts/maxwell-r…
Rounding off a summer of circles maps, Tube Map Central newsletter 102 emailed to subscribers. Download from tubemapcentral.com/writing/n…. Tube Map Central will be on hiatus while I complete an MBA but you can email me at [email protected] to receive occasional news mailings.
New for 2025, my Brussels Circles tram and metro map updated to v3. Brussels is my favourite city and I know the network well. The cat-head silhouette at the centre is not inappropriate!
#Transitmap book author @MarkOvenden has contributed an essay to a new compendium: The Untold Railway Stories, out this week. Mark’s tells of meeting #MassimoVignelli & other transit cartographers (including me)! Other authors include @Jack_M_Curtis, Vicki Pipe, Andrew Martin
Brand new: Netherlands Railways as circles, my first map of an entire country. Biggest challenges: no station names interrupting lines, keeping the design compact, keeping distortion under control, bundling services meaningfully. Utrecht takes its rightful place at the centre.
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I've been quiet lately, but I've not been slacking. Here is a sneak preview of what is coming next, look out for the completed version soon!
Less than 48 hours to go on my Kickstarter project! If you thought that London Circles Tube Map 2024 was incomplete without the rest of London's railways, this is your last chance to get a comprehensive circles design! kickstarter.com/projects/tub…
From August 2025 I will be de-following all followers who follow more than 1000 accounts. It will be a slow process because X doesn't want people to be able to curate followers, but I'm not here to create feed-fodder mush.