Second of six films about some of the 20th century's enduring designs.
The London Underground Map
One of British graphic
,design's greatest triumphs, the London underground map, was an unsolicited attempt to make the system easier to understand and use. It helped give London
Transport an identity, and has been copied by transit systems throughout the world. It has absorbed all the additions to the system since it was first sketched out in a school exercise book, not by a designer, but by an obscure draughtsman, Harry Beck.
Narrated by Jancis Robinson with Gert Dumbar ,
Milton Glaser , Ken Garland , Adrian Forty and Paul E. Garbutt Executive producer
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Producer ROGER LAST (R)
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