Chaos to Order in the 20th Century: Helvetica and the NYC Subway

NYC Subway signs - before

AIGA published this great little article recounting the tale of how the NYC Subway system went from a labyrinth filled with mosaic and hand-made signs in a variety of colors, [...]

A map of our galaxy—subway style

Milky Way Transit Authority

The map, titled Milky Way Transit Authority, was created by Harvard computational sociologist Samuel Arbesman. He had the idea to make the map while reading Carl Sagan’s Contact and contemplating [...]