2009-09-27
Decluttering
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For the London Design Festival, Pentagram commissioned 20 designers to “produce an effective poster, celebrating design and the city, in only two colours”. Bibloteque did this by taking the Tube map and removing all but the black and red.
I’ve taken the same method and done something similar with the recently decluttered tube map, just because I thought it would be fairly obvious quite how successful TfL’s designers had been in eliminating frippery. I think it works; the lost scatter of daggers and aeroplanes is visible even at small scales.
(See also: Information Pollution on the Underground Map. Some of my favourites from the exhibition of posters are on ffffound. Ben Terrett has some words about them too.)
