Ilya designs transport diagrams, websites, apps and signage. Directs the designers and developers. Teaches design. Composes, plays and listens to music. Last but not least, travels and takes photos.
For many people, a map of a transportation network is a given, an expected part of the system, something that just is — like a fire-escape plan in a building. So, when I say that I design transportation maps, they don’t understand. What is there to design even?
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A large metropolitan underground train network might as well be a teleportation device: People don’t care how it gets them from A to B, just that it does. In London, Paris and Moscow, the map of the metro does not show surface geography, because there is not much empty space … Read More…