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London Tube Map Redesign by Mark Noad

09 August 2011, 13.34 | Posted in Design | No comments »

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London designer Mark Noad had heard widespread criticism of the London Tube Map, so when he revamped the design of the London Underground map, he knew what needed to change. The new map design features lines and angles that are more geographically accurate, and he made sure it was just as easy to read the map on a screen as it is in print.  The former map was previously designed by Harry Beck, who designed it before the London Underground system expanded. Noad’s redesign includes a new typeface,  and uses 30 and 60-degree angles, where Beck’s design included only 45-degree angle, which got overlapped and confusing once new stations and infrastructure were added.

An interactive version is also available on this site, and is set to become an app with Apple in the near future.

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Invasion In The U.K. by Invader

31 December 2007, 17.49 | Posted in Books & Magazines | No comments »

UK Invasion by invaderInvader developed for the past 10 years his graphic universe, made of computer pixel and of one of the most ancient material: mosaic.
Those invasions, meticulously documented & archived, are now a real colorful network around his home city, Paris, but also around the whole world for 40 cities on the 5 continents have already been invaded by the artist.

As a parody of those mapbooks Parisian taxi drivers always carry with them, Invader started a serie of plastic covered Invasion guides to show us what is behind the visible part of his craft.
After Invasion de Paris and Invasion Los Angeles, the third volume, Invasion in the UK is about the invasion of the country ever since 1999 when it started in London to spread to Manchester and Newcastle.

Invasion in the UK is a very personal journey through England’s urban landscape & it presents Invader’s work through hundreds of pictures & archives collected during those 8 years of invading the United Kingdom.
The book is now available at Colette.
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