Chicago, IL

In the style of the current NYC Subway Map Design

Here’s a beautiful Chicago L Map in the style of the current New York City Subway Map! 

Michael Calcagno recreated the Chicago L map in the style of a beautiful MTA map design:

In the style of Vignelli NYC Subway Map Design of the 1970s

In August 1972, The New York City subway map designed by Massimo Vignelli first appeared on the walls of every subway station, every train car, and millions of pocket maps.  It became a landmark in modernist information design and was sometimes scorned by transit riders for non-geographical design. Vignelli regarded the map as one of his finest creations. 

Michael Calcagno recreated Chicago L map in the style of a beautiful Vignelli map design:

In the style of 1979-Mid 2000s NY Subway Map by MTA/Michael Hertz Associates

The New York City Subway map, which replaced a critically praised but publicly unpopular abstract design by Massimo Vignelli, was extremely popular because it represented one of the first attempts to combine the design sensibility of an abstract map with the comfortable, recognizable geography of a traditional map. While the cartography slightly resembles the real geography of New York City, it has been carefully and extensively manipulated to improve legibility in congested areas. Much of the design work was done by the fine artist and designer Nobu Siraisi.

Michael Calcagno recreated the Chicago "L" map in the style of 1979 NYC Subway map design:

In the style of Unique blend designs of both 1979 MTA & Hagstrom subway maps by Michael Calcagno

Michael Calcagno decided to try blended map designs from the 1979 MTA subway map (Michael Hertz Associates) and the 1940s Hagstrom subway map and came out beautifully. 

Michael Calcagno recreated Chicago "L" map in the style of blended NYC Subway map designs:

In the style of 1967 NYC Subway's Chrystie Street Connection Map

In 1967 NYC Subway opened the Chrystie Street connection in lower Manhattan, it brought together several BMT and IND lines with numerous routing changes. This brochure with a unique map design had several route changes affected by the new connection. This is where he can recreate many maps in that unique style.

Michael Calcagno recreated Chicago "L"  in the style of NYC Subway's Chrystie Street Connection map design:

In the style of 1967-1971 Raleigh D’Adamo-designed NYC Subway Map

Raleigh D’Adamo designed NYC Subway maps between 1967 and 1971

Michael Calcagno recreated Chicago L map in the style of NYC Subway's Raleigh D’Adamo map design:

In the style of 1970s New York Telephone Company-designed NYC Subway Map

New York Telephone Company designed the New York City Subway Map in their phone books.

Michael Calcagno recreated the Chicago L map in the style of the New York Telephone Company map design:

There are 3 versions of this map, Left: B/W map, Middle: Colorized map, and Full Color map.

Metra map in the style of Modern Los Angeles (LA Metro) map

This modern map design of LA Metro is still in use on their system.

Michael Calcagno recreated the Metra map in the style of modern LA Metro map design:

Chicago L (current service) in the style of Alan Grady's late 1980s Car Card L map

Alan Grady designed this cool map that was seen above L interior doors in the late 1980s.

Michael Calcagno recreated the car card map in the style of the late 1980s version:

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