What if a iconic WMATA map was only a array of dots? While going by boxes final week, an archivist during a Vignelli Center for Design Studies during a Rochester Institute of Technology found famed engineer Massimo Vignelli’s due epitome concepts for DC’s metro maps.
“I’m flattering certain we did a small dance and let out a small roar of joy,” Jennifer Whitlock told CityLab in an interview about her discovery. Lance Wyman finished adult conceptualizing WMATA’s famous map, though take a demeanour during a Vignelli Center’s Instagram posts and cruise what competence have been. There’s some-more to be detected too: Whitlock told CityLab she has so many card portfolios to differentiate by associated to WMATA, it competence take her a whole summer to unbox them all.
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