Design legend Michael Bierut tells the story of the accidental success of one of the most famous maps in the world — the London Tube Map.
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this map is not that great for color blind people though
There’s a colour blind version version with different patterns representing the different tube lines: https://tfl.gov.uk/forms/12387.aspx
Plus the modern version has a different colour per line now, so it’s a lot more colourful – also there still is the colourblind version for those who needed it like he said
Calm down guys I can’t keep up
Arthur Mkrtchyan hello grandpa how’s your vinyl , VHS and tape collection ???
This video is so simply and so good
8 uploads in one day? The TED bot is broken.
Actually art and design in the 1900s in the UK was all interesting as the Industrial Age exploded…..
Reupload ….
has this man never heard of “diagonal”
*small thing big idea: how ted spammed my sub box*
Write to them. Complain about this bad and lazy practice! (I can’t find a place to write to them directly! GUILTY OF BIG COMPANYISM!)
+farvision Relax.
me too
There are worse things you can get spammed by, than educational and informative videos. 😉
All started with one guy and an idea, implemented by hard work and good luck ! :’)
I used this when visiting from the US. Great idea.
Pshhh… London. Check Helsinki’s subway map. That’s something!
Hong Kong subway thank him for that!
yeah yeah we know harry beck is amazing.
Notice how he didn’t mention NY’s one, cause it’s a mess unless you use it every day
When i wain nyc, having seen other tube maps, i found really weird that one color =/= one line
It’s really not that innovative doesn’t deserve this much praise
Killjoy.
I swear TED already posted this video
I was thinking that too! I thought at first I had just seen someone else covering the topic but the video was just this huge deja vu!
Amazing still takes me a day or so to get the hang of the London underground when I go there
Am I the only one who watched this video a couple months ago?
Great content here ! I really loved these videos. I really wished there would have been more episodes