Five years ago, Max Roberts's reimagining of the NYC subway map as one based on concentric circles blew our minds. Now, he's got an updated version of the concentric circle map—but now with Massimo ...

A few years ago, we were presented with a map of the New York City subway system that reimagined it in concentric circles. Mapmaker Max Roberts created this design to visualize the city’s cohesiveness ...

Debating the merits of various subway designs is a classic NYC pastime. There's Massimo Vignelli's 1972 design. There's the geographically accurate current version designed by Michael Hertz. There's ...

New York City subway maps are inherently difficult to create. Map designers have often had to trade off between geographic accuracy, simplicity, cohesiveness, and aesthetics. With these maps of the ...

Poor Massimo Viignelli. His aesthetic-yet-inaccurate subway map from the 1970s was quickly replaced. Luckily, the new version designed by UK professor Maxwell Roberts has not been so quickly panned ...