The New York Subway Map Debate

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The New York Subway Map Debate captures the 1978 showdown between designer Massimo Vignelli and cartographer John Tauranac over the design direction of the NYC Subway Map. Featuring a newly discovered audio transcript and rare photographs by Stan Ries, it reveals the passionate discourse on the balance between design aesthetics and practical mapping.
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Ideal for readers interested in design history, cartography, and New York City culture.

Description

The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate between designer Massimo Vignelli and cartographer John Tauranac over the future of the NYC Subway Map. The book features the full transcript and discussions that followed, made possible by the recent discovery of a lost audio tape of the event, along with never-before-seen photographs of the evening by Stan Ries.

The New York Subway Map Debate opens a hyper-specific window into a moment in New York design history and the eternal battle between form and content.

Edited by filmmaker and design historian Gary Hustwit, with a foreword by designer Paula Scher.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780989532167

Publisher: Plexi Productions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Plexi Productions

Illustration: 29 Illustrations

Contributors:

Photographs by Stan Ries
Foreword by Paula Scher
Edited by Gary Hustwit

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 140

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and visual artist based in New York. He has produced 14 feature-length documentaries focusing on the worlds of design, architecture, and music, including Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, Workplace, and Rams. The films have been broadcast on outlets in 20 countries, and have been screened in over 300 cities worldwide. His film and photographic work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art New York, Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Venice Biennale.