He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Carole Ann Hertz, three sons, a daughter and eight grandchildren. In addition to NYC’s, he worked on transit maps for Houston and Washington, according to the Times. It also incorporated several design ideas into one map that had not been combined before. It was the first map published by the Authority designed by an established design firm. By Stewart Mader Posted on JOctoUpdated on October 23, 2020. In August of 1972, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) debuted a colorful diagrammatic map of the subway system, now commonly referred to as the Vignelli Map.
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In all fairness, the father of this map, as far as we’re concerned, is Mike Hertz,” Kelly told the New York Times.īefore creating the iconic map, Hertz worked as a movie advertising art director for the Walt Disney Company. Design Longevity: New York City Subway Map. “ all honesty, it’s Mike Hertz that did all the basic design and implementation of it. The MTA was formed in 1965.Īlthough there’s been some disagreement over who deserves credit for the modern map’s creation, then-MTA spokesman Tom Kelly confirmed to Newsday in 2004 that Hertz, more than anyone else, should get the honor. The 1979 map replaced Italian designer Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 creation, which, while a museum-worthy Modernist piece of art, is largely agreed to be more attractive than accurate. In 1979, it produced what remains the city’s map today - with a few tweaks and updates. Hertz’s design firm, Michael Hertz Associates, was hired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the 1970s to redesign the subway map. His son Eugene, who announced the death, did not state the cause. 18 at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, NY, where he lived. He enlisted in the US Army for two years and. Born on Augto Brooklyn-based parents, Hertz grew up in the city and, in 1954, earned a fine arts degree from Queens College. Michael Hertz, the man largely credited with designing the modern New York City subway map, has passed away at 87. On February 18, Michael Hertz, whose name shot to public transit fame when he and his firm redesigned the beloved map, has died in East Meadow, New York at age 87. It’s ridiculous.He put New York transportation on the map. Michael Hertz, whose design firm produced one of the most consulted maps in human history, the curvy-lined chart that New York City subway riders peer at over one another’s shoulders to figure out which stop they want, died on Feb. grow up with comic books, and this is what happens. How we get there is the conductor’s problem, not mine.” Who cares if the subway has to make a like that? I’m going, we’re all going, from Point A to Point B. If you have to have abstract geography, why do you have it in any case? Why have it at all?
"This is the map that came after our map. A lot of people love it, he said 30 years later. At the time, Vignelli’s elegant Modernist diagram pissed a lot of New Yorkers off.
Here's Vignelli on the map that replaced his in 1979, after "confused passengers convinced the MTA to replace it": The subway map we all know today is loosely based on a famous 1972 design by Massimo Vignelli, an Italian-American designer whose gem-coloured diagram eschewed geographical honesty for visual clarity. The 1979 design was created by the MTA Subway Map Committee, chaired by John Tauranac, which outsourced the graphic design of the map to Michael Hertz. Forty years later, graphic designers still laud Vignelli’s map as a triumph." "Train routes were straightened into neat angles to make a tidy diagram out of the actual snarl of criss-crossing tunnels.
And when designer Massimo Vignelli recently offered his impressions of some of the other New York City subway maps that have appeared over the last century, he didn't disappoint.įor a little background: "When the NY MTA hired Vignelli to develop a new plan for subterranean navigation, he was tasked with streamlining the wayfinding process for riders and bringing New York into the future," says Tom Lisi. Salomon wanted to rationalise the entire system of signage as well as the map, but they wouldn’t let him. Collection: Peter B.Lloyd In 1953, the Board was superseded by the more forward-thinking Transit Authority (TA), who soon commissioned George Salomon to design a new map. If your best known creation was hanging in the Museum of Modern Art, you might have reason to look askance at the designs that preceded and followed it. The key to subway lines in Hagstrom’s map (1956).
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