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Description: | Mr Harry C Beck sits in an office in front of a quad royal poster of his 1959 Underground map design. Beck holds a sketch of his 1933 map, which was the first diagrammatic map of the London Underground system.
Previously Tube maps had tried to be accurate geographical representations, and were often superimposed on line drawings of street maps. In Beck's map, all surface features have been eliminated apart from the schematic sweep of the Thames.
Beck wrote, 'Looking at an old map of the Underground railways, it occurred to me that it might be possible to tidy it up by straightening the lines, experimenting with diagonals and evening out the distance between stations.'
The travelling public appreciated the clarity of this Tube map and it has since become a London icon. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Ken Garland | Subjects: | Transport Identity and Icons Art and Design | Temporal: | 1965 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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