Vignelli Associates was commissioned in 1970 to create the entire graphic identity of the New York City Transit Authority. I’ve just find some pictures of if on flickr here.
Gary Hustwit from Helvetica Film give me this link :
Also, there’s a nice video of Vignelli explaining his controversial map of the NYC subway here:
http://www.helveticafilm.com/vignellimap.html
Gary Hustwit said,
February 5, 2007 at 3:56 pm ∞
Xavier, there have been several changes to the NYC Transit singage since the Vignelli design. For one thing, they no longer use Standard (as Akzidenz Grotesk was called here in the States). They changed the color scheme at some point, from white signs with black text, to black signs with white text. I guess the white signs were more susceptible to graffiti. Also, all new signs are in Helvetica, which Vignelli originally wanted to use, but was in short supply in the US then, especially at the larger sizes. It’s funny, because if you ride the NY subway, you’ll see some older signs in Akzidenz, the new ones in Helvetica, and then some that are combinations of both typefaces, like a word with an Akzidenz “S”, and then the rest of the word in Helvetica! I’m sure most commuters don’t notice…
Also, there’s a nice video of Vignelli explaining his controversial map of the NYC subway here:
http://www.helveticafilm.com/vignellimap.html
Xavier Encinas said,
February 5, 2007 at 3:59 pm ∞
Thanks Gary For this precision. I’ll make the changes in the post.
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