This is the lastest iteration of my take on a map of the New York City MTA subway system, which I consider to be a rough study. The project started as a co-lab course at Parsons, taught by Julia Wargaski and Paul Shaw (author of Helvetica and the New York Subway System). As part of our deep and intense study of the map's various incarnations over the last century, and work on individual map re-design concepts, we were graced with the insights of numerous guest speakers and critics. Among these guests was Massimo Vignelli, whose 1972 subway map served as the primary precedence for my own re-design. In this iteration of my subway map re-design, my aim is to reach a common ground between the aesthetic integrity of the Vignelli map and the user-friendliness of the Hertz-inspired version in-use today.
