“Mark Noad (a designer) has redrawn the Tube London map so that it shows the routes and distances between stations more accurately.

He has posted the map online and plans to launch an iPhone app in the coming days.”(taken  from the Tdod website )

I don’t know about any  one  else but I find this  some  what confusing as  a new design   in compassion to Harry Beck’s design  for the  london  tube  map exampled below  designed  originally in 1931.

As  some one that grew up in london and used the london underground on a regular basis I find this new  design confusing  this  is not  going to be used  to replace the current tube map “This is not intended as a replacement to the official version – it is simply another way to look at it”. To  quote Mark Noad  the  designer  behind this new design.

I do like this as an exercise in design but other than that Im a fan  of Harry Becks  design Which very much  shows  good use of the kiss Design principle  and other   underground  systems  throughout the  would have  used similar  designs  for there train maps examples bellow.

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