Massimo Vignelli’s updated subway map is available only in a limited run of 500 $300 prints.
Seriously? Yes, the money is going to charity. But you’re updating one of the most famous graphic design works ever made, which was used every day by about a million people, and was accessible to anyone who walked up to a ticket booth and asked for one, and made it a wall piece which will never actually be used for the purpose for which it was designed, and is accessible only to 500 people, and people who can spend $300 for it at that.
I just don’t understand it.
Source: studio41.it
