Yesterday, urban enthusiasts and design-philes mourned the death of Massimo Vignelli, the graphic designer who created the iconic 1972 subway map. Here’s a look at that famous map, from a website that allows you to look inside and outside every subway map from 1924 to 2014. It’s so loved, it sits in the Museum of Modern Art’s postwar design collection. At least once a year design aficionados call for the subway map’s return to Vignelli’s clean, abstract aesthetic. But the original wasn’t universally loved by riders. According to The New York Times, What upset many riders even more was that the map ignored much of the city aboveground. It reduced the boroughs to white geometric shapes and eliminated many streets, parks and other familiar features of the cityscape. Tourists complained of getting off the subway near the southern end of Central Park and finding that a stroll to its northern tip, 51… Read More