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dafnu: 1972 NY subway diagram. Inspired the disco aesthetics, but newyorkers hated it because it wasn’t drawn at scale. HUGE UX FAIL! http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg In 1972, the renowned Italian designer Massimo Vignelli redesigned George Salomon’s New York Subway map, which persisted until 1979, when superseded by Michael Hertz’s design. http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=266 http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=2647

dafnu:

1972 NY subway diagram. Inspired the disco aesthetics, but newyorkers hated it because it wasn’t drawn at scale. HUGE UX FAIL!

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg

In 1972, the renowned Italian designer Massimo Vignelli redesigned George Salomon’s New York Subway map, which persisted until 1979, when superseded by Michael Hertz’s design.

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=266

http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=2647