Mayor Rob Ford calls it one of city

transitmaps:

Naked TTC Rocket Map

What goes on underneath the printed map. The lights for the future Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension stations are already in place in the upper left of the map.

Fortunately, the map hasn’t been stolen by someone to reveal these inner workings: it’s simply been moved to the left. This being Toronto, however, it’s probably only a matter of minutes until someone makes off with it to hang on their bedroom/dorm wall.

(Source: wyliepoon/Flickr)

London Underground Depots in minimal postcard format. Absolutely loving this set.

www.drawnbyday.co.uk/projects/lu-depot-postcards

The TTC started selling these for $15.

Dirty cartography

transitmaps:

Historical Map: Preferred Rapid Transit Scheme, Toronto, 1910

A rather lovely (and somewhat prescient) figure from a report prepared by the New York engineering firm of Jacobs & Davies for the City of Toronto in 1910. It shows plans for a system of “subway streetcars” — a combination of at-grade and subterranean routes — both ahead of its time and prohibitively expensive, especially for a modest city like Toronto at the time (which had a population of just 350,000). 

(Source: levyrapidtransit.ca via @bgilliard)

They’ve thought of a Downtown Relief Line 103 years ago…

transitmaps:

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Beautifully minimalist line-drawing postcards of London Underground train depots. Complement with a pictorial history of how the Underground shaped London.

(↬ Quipsologies)

Starkly beautiful and quite excellently done. Matching the background colour to the Underground line each depot serves is a masterstroke.

Here’s the designer’s rationale behind these great cards.

letsbuildahome-fr:

“Ienami” Micro Landscape Planters by Metaphys

Just gotta apply a more typographic approach on this :)

15 Storeys High Pilgrimage, a set by baumschule75 on Flickr.

I love “15 Storeys High”
When I’m back in London, this will be the place to be for a pilgrimage.