Beck London Underground Map

Small thing big idea a ted original series celebrates. The man who created the tube map we know today was harry beck. Originally considered too radical harry beck s london underground tube map has become a design classic.

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Beck london underground map. 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. Pdf 518kb step free tube guide. Beck s map and its successors have inspired artists too. Done updating my favourites.

David booth s the tate gallery by tube 1986 a poster for london underground stations showed tube lines squeezed from tubes of. The first schematic tube map was designed by harry beck in 1931. The tube map sometimes called the london underground map or the tfl services map is a schematic transport map of the lines stations and services of the london underground known colloquially as the tube hence the map s name. Henry charles beck a technical draughtsman working for london transport is famous for having created the topological presentation of today s underground map in 1931.

Published on apr 10 2018 harry beck the london underground map a short video on the designer harry beck and in particular his design of the london underground map this is a video by the world. London underground was initially sceptical of beck s radical proposal an uncommissioned spare time project but tentatively introduced it to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. Formerly an engineering draughtsman for uerl he lost his job with the underground in the late 1920s as a result of funding cuts. Henry charles beck was an english technical draughtsman who created the present london underground tube map in 1931.

Famously the map wasn t commissioned but was created in his spare time by the then 29 year old engineering draughtsman. Central london red routes. Large print tube map in black white. It was immediately popular and the underground has used topological maps.

Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the london underground signals office. Original 1933 tube map now recognised across the world the tube map was originally the. Initially poo pooed by the powers that be two years later the. In 1931 harry beck revolutionised the london underground map with his angular representation inspired by electric circuit diagrams.

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