Sometimes it yields surprises – like the arrival of this month’s issue of Men’s Vogue. When I opened the back cover I was greeted with a fold out of the Massimo Vignelli designed 1972 New York subway ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

One of the maps on display is a riff on the MTA’s official subway map from 1972 to 1979, which was created by Italian designer Massimo Vignelli but replaced amid an outcry over its lack of ...

He said the public rebelled, though, since the map had “no bearing whatsoever to geography.”John Tauranac, who chaired the committee that produced the subway map in 1979, said in defense of Mr.

Vignelli’s map was praised by graphic design critics but was abandoned in 1979 because riders found it did not align with the city’s geography. That year, designer Michael Hertz unveiled the ...

The new map distorts the shape of the city more than the current one to better show how the system’s tracks interact with each other, much like Massimo Vignelli’s modernist design did.

But also, it communicates in a very powerful way that the map is live.” The Vignelli map (left) and the Hertz map (right). [Images: MTA, MTA/ Wiki Commons] Design scholars may notice something else.

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 ...