Nerds Love Maps
Design Classic: The London Underground Map
A 25-minute video about the design of the London subway map stimulated by a European turn towards modernity in London architectural design aesthetic. Don’t think this is just about maps because it isn’t. This is about the ethos of Romanticism: distance, diagrams, and navigation.
Special thumbs up by the way to maps. Especially fantasy ones.
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“Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” by The Jam