This redesign was a project that I was assigned in Advanced Graphic Design. We had to do a map design and I chose to improve upon the Boston MBTA. I chose this porject because it was something I struggle with all the time. I go to Boston often and I find myself getting mixed up with times and directions, espiecally with the commuter rails. I though that if I simpified the design, and made less clutter, I could come up with something that really worked. 

 

First, I chose to condense most of what I thought was clutter. Nextg to every white dots that signif stops, was an additional handicapped sign that took up a lot of space. To cobat this, I just added a blue stroke around the white dots that were handicapped friendly. This allowed fore more room for bigger fonts for the stop names; some the visually impared might appreciate.

 

Next I too the the color scheme and made it more primary color based. In the old map, some of the colors of the different lines were too close together. The oragne line was to close to the red line in color. Why wouldn't the MBTA just make the orange line yellow? I lightened up the orange into more of a flattened yellow so it stande out from the red line.

 

Last big change that I did was make the commuter rail lines more prominent. In the old map, they were small and had a faded purple color. I use these rails to get from my appartment to the city often, and I need them to be easy to decipher. I made the lines larger and a more bold purple so they stand out. 

 

I took the old design and started form the groud up. I thought a more simple, more clean depiction of the MBTA would help a lot of people. I also added a more simple legend at the bottom of the map. What inpired me was the clean, flat designs that are trending today.

 

- Made the font larger of the stops.

- Remade the rapid trqansfer station icons

-colorized the ferry system so it wasn't a mash of balck lines intersecting.