“In a discussion with Scientific American Mind executive editor Mariette DiChristina, three noted experts on creativity, each with a very different perspective and background, reveal powerful ways to unleash your creat ive self.”
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“The invited lecturer, Yuri Engelhardt, started his speech by talking about the presence and importance of graphic representations throughout the history of the human been. Diagrams, maps, charts and many kind of symbols take part of our daily life. From clock faces to traffic signs or subway maps, or even those graphics that can be found in the neswspapers, they are everywhere around us. Computers deserve a special mention, where most information is transmitted to the user through graphic representation.”
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“It was gorgeous. It was abstract. It was criticized. It was confusing. And it’s back.
With its 45- and 90-degree angles and one color per subway line, the 1972 subway map by Massimo Vignelli was divorced from the cityscape, devoid of street or neighborhood names. It was criticized because its water was not blue and its parks were not green. Paul Goldberger called it “a stunningly handsome abstraction” that “bears little relation to the city itself.”
Now Men’s Vogue has asked Mr. Vignelli to update his subway map for the May design issue.” (Thanks Information Design Watch!)
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