The man who designed the map most ingrained in Washingtonians’ brains will speak Saturday about his work: the Metrorail map.
Massimo Vignelli designed the spider map some 30 years ago, making a system of transit lines intelligible to riders from around the world. The famed designer also created iterations of New York’s famed subway map.
He’ll be reflecting on working with Metro’s architect, Harry Weese, on the system’s lauded architecture with its signature vaulted stations. Perhaps he can address how the system’s map will incorporate the so-called Silver Line now under construction out to Washington Dulles International Airport? Or how to make sense graphically of the bus system, as the transit agency pushes to make its bus system more approachable?
The talk will run from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Metro’s headquarters, 600 Fifth Street NW, which is close to both the Judiciary Square stop on the Red Line and the Gallery Place station on the Red, Yellow and Green lines.
