Four Fifths Design

Designer: Triboro Studio

This subway map, by Triboro NYC, evokes the rigid grid of the city’s layout, but also its chaotic nature at the same time: it’s printed only in fluorescent red. The studio stripped away all of the familiar color-coded subway routes to create a map that subverts its own function. It’s designed to a tight grid, but any legibility is foregone because of the use of one single colour.