The New York subway map debate at Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

Available

The New York subway map debate at Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

(2021, original release: 1978)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

388.420974/NEW

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	388.420974/NEW	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

Brooklyn, New York : published by Gary Hustwit and Standards Manual ; 2021

DESCRIPTION

168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780989532167, 098953216X

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

Introduction / Gary Hustwit -- Foreword / Paul Scher -- The debate / Jonathan Barnett, Peter Blake, Arthur Drexler, Hugh Dunne, Aviva Goldstein, Richard Harris, Peter Laundy, John Tauranac, Massimo Vignelli -- Interview: John Tauranac -- Interview: Arline Bronzaft -- Interview: Peter Laundy -- Interview: Jonathan Barnett

The discovery of a lost audio recording sheds new light on a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate between designer Massimo Vignelli and cartographer John Tauranac over the future of the NYC Subway Map. The New York Subway Map Debate features the full transcript and discussions that followed, along with never-before-seen photographs of the evening by Stan Ries. Edited by filmmaker and design historian Gary Hustwit, with a foreword by designer Paula Scher