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New book: Underground Maps After Beck by Maxwell Roberts
Pat Ricroft wrote:
I look forward to a full review in due course! Perhaps along the following lines: "A brave attempt to render the full glory of the developing Tube map over five decades, but sadly let down by the printers, who were unable to reproduce the proper shade of brown for the Bakerloo line in the 1967 map." Most likely But I'm particularly interested in the subtleties of design which I guess you don't really notice day-to-day. BTW, I'm doing research into drawing maps like these, so any insight is worth following up for my thesis -- Jonathan Stott Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/ Reverse my e-mail address to reply by e-mail |
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