Design Legend Massimo Vignelli Is Very Sick—Send Him a Letter The man who gave us everything from the NYC subway’s signage and map to the American Airlines logo, Massimo Vignelli, is currently ...

And here’s the new one, calling back to Italian designer Massimo Vignelli’s map, in use 1972-1979: Image: MTA …which will be displayed alongside a geographically accurate one for good measure: ...

The new layout ditches the street map entirely, instead returning to the more abstracted view of the beloved 1972 map from Massimo Vignelli. Subway lines are no longer mapped out with exact ...

New NYC Subway Map, Courtesy of the MTA The map echoes a short-lived 1972 map created by Massimo Vignelli. That version, designed as a service map, introduced straight lines and minimized ...

Hustwit kindly suggests that both sides won: Vignelli’s 1972 map is now considered a work of art, and Tuaranac and Hertz’s late ’70s version lives on in subway cars to this day.

Alexander Chen used HTML5 and Massimo Vignelli's famous subway map to turn NYC's mass transit system into a playable musical instrument.

Trouble is this “subway diagram” (it’s not even called a map) looks almost identical to the modernist version by artist Massimo Vignelli that was scrapped in 1979, seven years after it went up. New ...

The Vignelli Map was introduced in August 1972 by the TA and Unimark International, whose principals included Bob Noorda and Massimo Vignelli (other designers, like Joan Charysyn, were also involved).

The Great New York Subway Map follows not just the creation of the 1972 map but also delves into Vignelli’s career, using it to explain the impact of design, and more specifically how graphic design ...

Probably not, but the retro design based on Massimo Vignelli’s subway map from the ’70s sure does look cool. More from the Times on the launch: “The stylish digital map will be customized each weekend ...