Washington, DC Metro Diagram Redesign: Version 3

nobody@flickr.com (Cameron Booth) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:56:22 -0700

This is it. My final take on a redesigned Washington, D.C. Metro Map. This is my third major revision of a project that began in February of last year, and won the People's Choice Award in the Greater Greater Washington "Redesign the Metro Map" contest earlier this year. I've taken time away from this diagram to work on a few other projects recently, but the release of Lance Wyman's draft diagram has inspired me to finish an "ultimate" version of my vision of the diagram.

Washington, D.C. Metro Diagram Redesign

nobody@flickr.com (Cameron Booth) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:07:15 -0800

Cameron Booth posted a photo:

If there's one thing I love, it's a good Metro/Subway/Underground map. Some of them are design classics and really shouldn't be messed with (London especially). Others have flaws, but are mostly tolerable (Boston not naming all stations on the Green Line really annoys me, but the rest of the diagram is quite well done).

And then there are the diagrams that I simply can't abide.

And, at the moment, foremost amongst those is that of the Washington, DC Metro system. I know that it's one of the most comprehensive mass-transit systems in the US. And I know that some love its broad, brightly-coloured route lines and overly-large station dots, both of which do lend sort of a child-like simplicity to the system, but I'm not one of them.

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Washington, DC Metro Diagram Redesign: Version 3

Washington, D.C. Metro Diagram Redesign