Underground Diagram of Lines and Station Index: Beck, 1957

Title: Underground Diagram of Lines and Station Index Author: Harry Beck Date: 1957 Condition: See description Inches: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 [Image] Centimeters: 21.59 x 13.97 [Image] Product ID: 308223 Harry Beck's Reductionist Modern Masterpiece Originally considered too radical, Harry Beck's London Underground Tube map has become a design classic.  Now recognized across the world, the Tube map was originally the brainchild of Underground electrical draughtsman, Harry Beck, who produced this imaginative and beautifully simple design back in 1933.  Rather than emphasizing distance and geographical accuracy, like other maps, Beck based his on the circuit diagrams he drew for his day job; stripping the sprawling Tube network down to a neat diagram of colored, crisscrossing lines. Beck's map was initially rejected by the publicity department because it was considered too radical, but a successful trial print-run showed that it was just what the public wanted.  The result was an i