The Story Behind The Ekaterinburg Metro Map

A large metropolitan underground train network might as well be a teleportation device: People dont care how it gets them from A to B, just that it does. In London, Paris and Moscow, the map of the metro does not show surface geography, because there is not much empty space on the sheet.

Designing a citys metro map is quite a challenging task, even when there is just one line. Last year, my colleague Pasha Omelyohin and I were thrilled to work on the redesign of the metro map for Ekaterinburg, Russia. We had fun (he designed, I directed). In this article, well cover our design process. Its going to be detailed, so, depending on your interests, this might be very boring or very exciting. Still, weve left out so much. We hope this helps in case you have to work on a similar project.

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