The genius of the London Tube Map | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2018
- Design legend Michael Bierut tells the story of the accidental success of one of the most famous maps in the world -- the London Tube Map.
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This video is so simply and so good
SIMPLE*
@@milkycloud. sksmowley*
I'm from Seattle and I always thought the Tube was the best public transit network in the world, every time I go I bring home the current map and I have them as part of a decorative metal art with the underground and Leicester square
London is great if you like walking. You can just walk randomly until you are tired and then catch the nearest tube home.
It is much better in winter because it gets dark earlier and the lighting is very atmospheric.
Great content here ! I really loved these videos. I really wished there would have been more episodes
I used this when visiting from the US. Great idea.
The New York subway map seems to be more geographically accurate than some of these examples, and I've always wondered why it looked off. I can see for a city like London, which is way more complex than New York, Beck's map design is massively helpful!
someone tried to 'fix' the nyc map the way you suggested, and it didn't go well. geographical accuracy can still be important.
@@jessicafreeman1970 Americans don't like change. Hence why you don't use the metric system and guns are so easily available.
@@jessicafreeman1970, why did it not go well?
I loved every one of these videos! Thank you(TED & the creators of course) for this series.
That’s the great thing about it, when visiting London for the first time. You look at it once, and then you get it.
That mention of São Paulo really startled me there, I thought that people only knew of Rio
Harry Beck most certainly knew what a ‘User Interface’ was. What he may not have recognised was the nomenclature. Further, why would t we expect an engineer to have this insight. The best Engineers think function and form.
I like that, even though it doesn’t correspond geographically, it still tells you whether you are north or south of the Thames.
*Speaking of geometry, this video is **3:14** long*
Nice! I see what they did there, haha
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Dont get it
QUICKGAM3R it's pie
@@Cpt005 It's pi number 3.14
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Write to them. Complain about this bad and lazy practice! (I can't find a place to write to them directly! GUILTY OF BIG COMPANYISM!)
@@farvision Relax.
me too
There are worse things you can get spammed by, than educational and informative videos. ;)
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Hmm, very interesting & incredibly well presented. Thanks, Ted 😄🙏🏼
Even the British National Rail Network uses a Beck Style map. You dont need to know where are the curves are on Shap Bank or the Kyle of Lochalsh line. What matters is what are the station names and how are they ordered. The shape of Britain is simplified to roughly match the map.
I'm pretty sure this is how the Hyperspace Routes maps in Star Wars work, thanks for the help!
All started with one guy and an idea, implemented by hard work and good luck ! :')
I have dyslexia and this map these underground maps is,are, very easy clear to me to use, makes sense, unlike some other maps which I find a bit more difficult.
What a wonderful example of a good storytelling.
The editing skills are amazing!!
I HAVE TO ADMIT, I HAVE NEVER GOT LOST IN TUBE STATIONS IN LONDON. I UTILIZE IT EVERYDAY AND I'M NOT EVEN SCARED TO GO SOMEWHERE I'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE, JUST FOR FUN, WITHOUT PLANNING BEFOREHAND BECAUSE THE LINES ARE JUST IN MY HEAD AND I KNOW WHERE WHAT LINKS AND WHAT STATIONS ARE THE PIVOTAL ONES ETC
Mini-Metro!
A man of culture I see.
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Emily Mast I actually clicked this video, hoping to improve my game.
The only simple thing about British trains. That said, with this map you get people riding the tube from Picadilly Circus to Leicester Square, because they don't know they're right next to eachother.
moosemooseson : I have done that. And later found it took only a minute to walk from Queensway to Bayswater.
@@runarandersen878 Or Lancaster Gate to Paddington
IKR! LMAO
Tbf is people are stupid enough to do this then tfl deserve to take their money
Yeh and sometimes my destination is closer at Leicester sq .. also they aren’t right next to each other there is a quite a few min walk between them which could be important if ur late to work. L sq it’s also a much easier station to meet friends as it’s smaller. Piccadilly circus is huge and can be confusing with multiple exits - especially to non Londoners. Anyway they are both on the same line so doesn’t make that much difference. There are problems with the london tube map though but these are mainly when stations on different lines are actually right next to each other and it would be quicker to just walk that wait for a station where the lines intersect and change. But overall it’s super useful and the public transport system in London is amazing
One of our favorite drafters of all time...
Superb video.... no 'victim' required
this is brilliant very interesting
Lines surely run in four directions: horizontal (0○), vertical (90○), diagonal (45○), and diagonal (135○).
I swear TED already posted this video
I was thinking that too! I thought at first I had just seen someone else covering the topic but the video was just this huge deja vu!
Thank you I was thinking the same but wasn't sure since I never saw the other ones.
#MandelaEffect
@@andrearinaldi4655 bruh don't even joke with me. I'm ready to believe at this point
I found the video posted on facebook in January and on TED website in March so I'm pretty sure we're not going crazy.
very good
Sad they felt compelled to edit this like an advert. I would have liked to have seen some of the things they showed. It’s the tedification of tedification ...
Jonathan Irons : I think there are other videos on UA-cam about this.
Calm down guys I can't keep up
Arthur Mkrtchyan hello grandpa how's your vinyl , VHS and tape collection ???
Arthur Mkrtchyan these 6 videos are short, equivalent to 1 normal upload 😉 17:00 total😉😉
Look at this tie! I like it.
I lived in South Korea for 7 years and I loved the Seoul subway map! I had it posted on my wall in my apartment (because I liked the design) and people thought I was odd. Psshhh, I know good design when i see it, ha ha.
Super idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hong Kong subway thank him for that!
The science of writing underwent an analogous paradigm shift, when it crossed from pictograms, to pictogram-derived symbols: The 1-to-1 correspondence between image and the depicted reality, was abandoned, in favour of a more arbitrary, abstract meaning. This marked the beginning of what we, today, consider intellectual development.
How many railways come together to create the underground?
What did the original map include?
What was right with the original map?
What was wrong with the original map?
What was the name of the map creator and what was his job?
We need a geoff marshall!
Great
It's so irrational. I need a pie.
I like London Tube
And Harry Beck wasn't given the recognition until long after he died.
Lit editing!
has this man never heard of "diagonal"
Diagon alley 😉
but that would imply that there are lines going at any angle, not just 45 degrees
@@cybersquirrell1370 Actually, they run at 45○ in both directions, or 45○ and 135○, so lines run at four angles, not three.
Did Edgar Wright edit this?
Curt Burgess well done sir
There is no such thing as a fully accurate map/model. Every model globe of Earth sold comes with a sticker saying "for decoration purposes only. Not for education purposes" because they're so ridiculously inaccurate. Food for thought.
Tell me more, tell me more
Anyone want to explain NYC's?
Next step towards progress for tube maps: THINKING ABOUT COLOURBLIND PEOPLE!
There are colourblind friendly versions of the tube map where different lines are represented by different patterns instead of colours
yeah yeah we know harry beck is amazing.
3:10 All started by one guy with a pencil, from the previous video
I legit thought the train tracks were straight like they were on the 'diagram' map of today 😂
I'm Thanos and thanks for coming to my Ted talk
The multiple cut edits gave me a seizure. Thanks Ted.
His lisp is cute.
Actually art and design in the 1900s in the UK was all interesting as the Industrial Age exploded.....
Seems like design thinking
So, basically, if you think you saw the best metro maps, you haven't seen Moscow metro! This is the best metro in the world! Especially, considering how big this city is!
加油啊
优质内容，TED
This video is my listening Exam :v
Less is more!
I can remember it from the movie ZERO HOUR.
also in Darkest Hour movie.. Winston Churchill can't use it
@@sizzlinsj8135 oh sorry i actually meant darkest hour i forgot the name.
Hello
LOL BUT MERELY ANYBODY USES THE MAP NOW, BUT RATHER JUST SIGNS AND STATION NAMES.
聚焦、簡單、跨學科
He didn't necessarily invent it. That's how electrical diagrams work. They show no regard to field installation.
Drawing electrical diagrams was exactly what his job was. It was his idea to use such a diagram instead of the geographically accurate maps.
Pshhh... London. Check Helsinki's subway map. That's something!
Ye it's so simple we don't even need a name for the line(s) :D
Except New York, New York’s map is still a huge mess.
Duhh!!!
One of the most complicated systems in the world? A network of subway lines? Besides, great idea but it has its limitations, if you don't represent distances there is no way to tell the best route from A to B. And what is the closest station to site C on the surface? You need another map, don't you?
London's underground is so freakin’ hot and the tunnels sometimes are very confusing. And the train itself is a bit crammed
more like 4 directions innit?
Shanghai's underground map is way more complicated than London's because there are 18 metro lines underground and another 4 lines will be put into use in 3-4 years. But London's underground system is still interesting and it is more historical than just practical I think.
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i meant say i learnt alot
The map is not the terrain.
this map is not that great for color blind people though
There's a colour blind version version with different patterns representing the different tube lines: tfl.gov.uk/forms/12387.aspx
Plus the modern version has a different colour per line now, so it’s a lot more colourful - also there still is the colourblind version for those who needed it like he said
@@JonathanDavidJ Dang! TransJakarta bus in Jakarta, Indonesia need this!. I am partially colorblided. I have once mistakenly boarded on wrong bus route because of i'm interpreting the wrong color of the bus map since they only have colored version of the map, although they also provided Trafi app on smartphone for realtime bus tracking and audio guide through text to speech feature.
Not true. Color blind people are mostly not fully 'color blind'. They can still see color but they just see it differently. They may see turquoise as green. So as long as you avoid the similar color, color blind people can easily tell the difference between red, blue, yellow, black.
Wierd flex but ok...
This idea goes back to approximately 1736 with the development of Graph Theory. But I'm sure that makes for a much less entertaining story for the man with the silly glasses and tie.
Cities around the world got the idea for their respective metro map for graph theory?
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Interesting subject but very annoying editing, let's just look at the map for more than 1 sec!
the sad thing is he was never ever recognised for it during his life and it has been copied - ripped off - by every country since and he should have got royalties for it and his descendants....
That was underwhelming. I was expecting something ‘genius’, not common sense.
Everything is easy when you know how. No one else knew how until this map was designed.
The genius is creating something that's common sense, where common sense was previously absent. Something that makes you wonder why you didn't think of it in the first place.
I collect maps buttons postcards keyrings tshirts etc. I lived 6 months in London in 1990 🥳❤🤍🖤
I HAVE TO ADMIT, I HAVE NEVER GOT LOST IN TUBE STATIONS IN LONDON. I UTILIZE IT EVERYDAY AND I'M NOT EVEN SCARED TO GO SOMEWHERE I'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE, JUST FOR FUN, WITHOUT PLANNING BEFOREHAND BECAUSE THE LINES ARE JUST IN MY HEAD AND I KNOW WHERE WHAT LINKS AND WHAT STATIONS ARE THE PIVOTAL ONES ETC