First Harry Beck edition was plastered with brands.
Harry Beck's design icon, and the maps that led up to it.
Someone fairly unremarkable, who did a remarkable thing.
Yet is everything as it seems?
Tube map, Monopoly and A-Z were a 1930s supergroup.
As designed by a rather clever 15-year-old.
An extremely pretty alternative tube map.
Originally rejected for being too 'revolutionary'.
How the icon came to be.
A fitting tribute to an influential foursome.
Moquette? Johnston font? The black cab?
English Heritage recognises the draughtsman on the diagram's 80th anniversary.
From MacDonald Gill to Stephen Walter.
A case study on the famous map shows its distorted geography can distort travellers' perceptions of reality.
A last, wonderful hurrah from a tiny local museum, forced to close by Barnet Council.
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