{"id":1553,"date":"2012-08-06T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2015-05-02T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T21:30:26","slug":"a-tube-map-inspired-by-charles-rennie-mackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2012\/a-tube-map-inspired-by-charles-rennie-mackintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tube Map Inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh.png\" alt=\"maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh\" width=\"940\" height=\"618\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh.png 940w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh-207x136.png 207w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh-260x170.png 260w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maxroberts_charlesrenniemackintosh-430x283.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above is an extract from a map of the London Underground, drawn by <a href=\"http:\/\/privatewww.essex.ac.uk\/~mjr\/underground\/tubemap.html\">Max Roberts<\/a> in the style of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh\">Charles Rennie Mackintosh<\/a> &#8211; with sets of parallel lines, squares and exaggerated right angles that are the hallmarks of the early twentieth century Scottish designer. The map shows the tube network as it would have been at the time of Mackintosh&#8217;s death in 1928.<\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks to the promotor for inviting me to the exhibition for the launch of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/privatewww.essex.ac.uk\/~mjr\/underground\/tubemap.html\">Underground Maps Unravelled, Explorations in Information Design<\/a> by Maxwell Roberts.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/crm2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/crm2.jpg\" alt=\"crm2\" width=\"605\" height=\"439\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/crm2.jpg 605w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/crm2-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is an extract from a map of the London Underground, drawn by Max Roberts in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh &#8211; with sets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,164],"tags":[285,294,666,224,667,158],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-tube","tag-decorative","tag-design","tag-max-roberts","tag-network","tag-roberts","tag-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}