Color Blind Subway Map

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Color Blind Subway Map

If you were Brooklyn based designers David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler and produced a new New York City subway map printed in a single color, what would it be? Florescent red. As Heasty notes, "The design strips away the familiar color-coding of the subway system routes while still maintaining a level of hierarchy and functionality. It embraces a dual (and seemingly contradictory) agenda. In this way, the map reflects the opposing effects visual communication can have on our society, either

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Most Recently Shared on March 4, 2010 at 3:41 pm By:

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Color Blind NYC Subway Map printed in one color http://bit.ly/bBaPib "reflects the contradictory experience of NYC" v @thedailyheller

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The psychological four-color mapping problem. [J Exp Psychol Appl. 2010] - PubMed result

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When it comes to maps, we're not color blind RT @vaughanbell: Experimental study finds colours that speed map use by 15%. http://is.gd/d0KYy

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Google Maps Helps Colorblind See Traffic

seroundtable.com — “Earlier this year, we reported how the colorblind were blind to Google Maps traffic because many of them could not distinguish between the various shades of colors. It has come to my attention from a Googler named Dave via the......” View full resource at seroundtable.com