In February this year, I set myself the task of redesigning Washington, D.C.’s ubiquitous Metro Map (read my original blog post here). What began as a simple design exercise (mainly to see just how different I could make the diagram look) has grown into something much bigger: my design has appeared on DC blogs and newspapers and has generated a lot of public discussion. Many people have asked for posters, and – finally – here they are.
Now sold out.
Interstate System? Europe laughs at your petty Interstate System, America. In 1975, the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s Economic Commission for Europe ratified a document outlining international traffic arteries through Europe and beyond. Commonly known as E-Roads, these highways criss-cross Europe in much the same way that the Interstate system does the United States, but with even more roads and even longer routes.
A while ago, I posted a simple logo that I had created for the impending birth of my first child to Facebook. One of my friends, Lindsey, remarked – tongue in cheek – how cool it would be if I was her parent and made her an awesome logo. Just a little throw away remark that didn’t mean anything. Except my little designer brain kept playing with this one visual idea based on her surname: Watts.
Presenting the latest in my series of transit-styled diagrams (see also the Interstate System in the style of the London Underground and a Washington, DC Metro map redesign), the entire Amtrak passenger rail system in the style of a subway map.
Client: Dr. Kildeen Moore Research Fund
Type of Work: Logo design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Client: Sanitarium Health Foods, Australia
Type of Work: Promotional cricket trading cards
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
If there’s one thing I love, it’s a good Metro/Subway/Underground map. Some of them are design classics and really shouldn’t be messed with (London especially). Others have flaws, but are mostly tolerable (Boston not naming all stations on the Green Line really annoys me, but the rest of the diagram is quite well done).
And then there are the diagrams that I simply can’t abide.
Client: Braidwood Traditional Ales
Type of Work: Beer bottle labels
Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Client: Colin Lake & Wellbottom
Type of Work: Logo, identity
Software: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Client: New Orleans Tile Company
Type of Work: Logo, identity
Software: Adobe Illustrator CS3