He is writing further volumes on the map’s history. In 2018, at the University of Kent, he published results of a usability study of color in the MTA Weekender map. In 2015 he organised a major symposium on the map in Cooper Union. In 2012 he published Vignelli: Transit Maps. His research led him through archives and interviews with mapmakers responsible for the map over the past half-century. After collaborating with best-selling author Mark Ovenden on a book about the Paris Metro, he began researching the NYC subway map. Lloyd began collecting worldwide subway maps in the 1990s. Touching on the ingenious color schemes that never made the official map, his talk will also follow sidelined mapmakers such as Arthur Weindorf and Thomas Stephen. He will trace the historical color schemes as the map passed through the hands of principal mapmakers, from Andrew Hagstrom to John Tauranac. Join Peter Lloyd for a discussion about the coloring of subway lines since 1904. But how and why were those colors chosen? And what color schemes came before and why did they change? Today’s NYC subway system is defined by color-like the green Lexington Avenue Line, the red Broadway Line, and the blue Eighth Avenue Line.
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