Metrographies
Ongoing graphic experiments with underground maps.
Metro maps are simplified abstractions of a complex urban landscape that need to be very practical. These dominant images inevitably affect how we read the cities we inhabit. Within their design I see a kind of sacred urban geometry. I enjoy experimenting with metro maps of places where I’ve lived and routinely took the metro. In this sense, this is also an autobiographical project.
METROGRAPHIES is an exercise in diagrammatic abstraction and exploration of its visual language: breaking down and playing with the diagram’s essential syntactic elements, concepts of readability, practicality and beauty, while deconstructing the domination of these hegemonical images.
METROGRAPHIES is an exercise in diagrammatic abstraction and exploration of its visual language: breaking down and playing with the diagram’s essential syntactic elements, concepts of readability, practicality and beauty, while deconstructing the domination of these hegemonical images.