2013-03-28
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“The underground story of King’s Cross square.” (via)
(Source: web.archive.org)
2013-03-22
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I previously posted this map of King’s Cross St Pancras as part of my review of the then-new Northern Ticket Hall, but it seems relevant to the previous post.
It also seems useful to post since a video of the secrets of the Victoria line was recently posted, and it contained the (apparently little-known) fact that the best way to the platforms is definitely not to follow the signs.
If you look at the diagram, from above it’s always easier to walk to the eastern (“existing”) ticket hall, and from the Northern and Piccadilly line you should head towards the cluster of staircases where the three platforms meet.
(The image used to be hosted on TfL’s site as part of their information about the station’s upgrade, but now it’s done it’s been taken down. Instead I took this from Leewood Projects, who worked on the western ticket hall.)
2013-01-09
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A first day cover of Royal Mail stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of Metropolitan line.
There’s more on the designs at the Creative Review blog, including this quote from Gareth Howat of Hat-Trick, the designers:
Our approach was to deliberately use a mix of photography, graphic art and illustration as it’s such a rich visual subject. The only one that was commissioned was the shot of Canary Wharf, which was shot by Paul Grundy, the rest are originals, some of which we had to enhance slightly.
2012-11-12
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Amazing video of London in 1941, commuting in from the Suburbs,
City Bound (1941) (by British Council Film)
Well worth ten minutes.
2012-10-31
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London Underground map after the 7th July attacks and failed bombing attempt on the 21st July 2005. By Feòrag NicBhrìde.
2012-10-04
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Underground Maps Unravelled: Explorations in Information Design, by Max Roberts (via things)
This sounds like one to get.
Despite the link to the Amazon page in the thingsmagazine post, the book is only available direct from the author.
2012-09-11
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Top: London Underground Circuit Map Radio by Yuri Suzuki, 2012 (more here, here).
Bottom: The Underground ‘straight eight’ all-electric skit-set circuit diagram by Harry Beck, March 1933.
2012-05-17
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Stephen Walter’s London Subterranea, another art map featured in Claire Dobbin’s book (and one of her choices of the best maps in the London Transport Museum collection). It’s been posted to io9 and Londonist today, with the latter providing close-ups along with a a good description:
Walter has painstakingly charted the buried rivers, Tube lines, bunkers, sewers, government tunnels and other hypogeal secrets of London. He’s also included mysterious and underworld elements, such as unsolved murders, ley lines and pagan burial sites. Like his famed 2008 work The Island, to which this is a companion piece, London Subterranea is a mesmerising tagliatella, combining painstaking research with artistic whimsy.
As they note, it’ll be displayed at the London Transport Museum’s Mind the Maps Friday Late tomorrow.
2012-05-07
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A Week in the Life of London’s Public Transit System, by Jon Reades (via):
This visualisation shows average entries at each and every Underground, Overground, and DLR station over the course of a week using a 10-minute interval. So in theory there are some 300 * 7 * 24 * 6 data points in this image.
