{"id":1336,"date":"2012-05-18T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2013-04-11T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:13:30","slug":"london-underground-packing-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2012\/london-underground-packing-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube Map Sticky Tape!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now this is just excellent – it’s a roll of tape<\/a> with a custom-designed map of the London Underground (and DLR & Overground) on it. It’s produced by the Seoul-based designers Jin Sol and Kim Ji-hwan, who make up the studio ZeroPerZero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"tapebox\"<\/a>I particularly like this “1.5D” take on the familiar tube map. Constrained by the tape’s natural shape (i.e. long and thin), the designer had to construct a map where essentially all the lines run in one direction, while still including the intricate topological connections that are the key part of a tube map. It’s not quite one dimensional – that would be impossible for a multi-line map – but the second dimension is certainly constrained. <\/p>\n

The design is a custom one, rather than being an “official” map repurposed. Colours vary slightly from the traditional ones, and all stations are shown with circlar dots – of different sizes depending on their importance. Lozenges make up interchanges – with the name of the station inside them for the major ones. Major above-ground London landmarks are included in gold – the London Eye, St Paul’s Cathedral etc. Lines bend back on themselves resulting in sometimes dramatic geographical distortions. Nothing as extreme as Francisco’s map<\/a> – this map is intended for practical use as well as novelty.<\/p>\n

The big question of course is what do you do with a roll of tube map tape? Well this will be ideal for wrapping presents for my more technical-minded friends, or alternatively sticking it in a notebook or maybe on a workdesk as a handy reference – here’s the desk of one half of Mapping London:<\/p>\n

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Thank you Steve<\/a> for tipping me off about this, and ZeroPerZero<\/a> for sending me a review copy, all the way from Seoul! (I also got a bonus roll with the Manhattan part of the New York City Subway system.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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