{"id":2389,"date":"2009-09-01T08:10:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2009-08-18T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:51:12","slug":"mapping-the-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/2389","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/BLOGimages\/beck_map.jpg\" width=400\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patricktaylor.com\/1933-underground-map\" target=\"_blank\">Henry C. Beck&#8217;s 1933 map<\/a> for the London Undergound set the standard for transit maps worldwide. Based on an electrical schematic, and handlettered by Beck &#8211; he pitched the map to the Underground as easier to understand than what they&#8217;d been using. Skeptical at first, they eventually released Beck&#8217;s version. It was a major hit with commuters \u2013 and he spent the next 27 years updating and revising his creation.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the iconic tube map as interpreted in this presentation video by Digital Urban &nbsp;. . .<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3362294&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3362294&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/3362294\">London Tube Map Traditional Layout<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user584207\">Digital Urban<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Mapping the Tube\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/2389\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}