Harry Beck Concepts

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

by Anatoli Boukreev · 16 Jul 1999 · 386pp · 127,839 words

-three, an attorney from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a client-climber in Rob Hall’s expedition, was sharing a tent with three other climbers: Andy Harris, Beck Weathers, and Doug Hansen. Everyone except Andy Harris, a Rob Hall guide, thought a summit bid the next day was a bad idea. Kasischke recalled

Underground, Overground

by Andrew Martin · 13 Nov 2012 · 326pp · 93,522 words

Aldgate … the crown of its head King’s Cross, its spine Paddington’. (But for the tail she goes outside the Circle – invoking Ealing Broadway.) On Harry Beck’s diagrammatised Tube map of 1933 the Circle resembles, as has often been pointed out, a vacuum flask lying on its side with the narrower

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, he might be better remembered today. But I doubt it, because it was Stingemore’s fate to be elbowed aside by a genius. In 1931 Harry Beck first presented his first draft for a new type of Tube map to the Underground Group. Beck was an engineering draughtsman who had recently been

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of the map in the corporate identity of the Underground, and its function as an alternative logo for the system, this does not seem enough. Harry Beck didn’t mind being paid so little, as long as he had control over the evolution of the map, and he maintained that he had

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in Finchley, and the plaque had been suggested by a letter to LT from Mrs Jean de Vries, who had friends who were friends of Harry Beck. A couple of years after the gratifying but unheralded appearance of the plaque, she thought it would be nice to have a proper, formal unveiling

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was a typical English gentleman, always in tweeds – and always with a pen in his top pocket.’ Also present at the tea was Joan Baker, Harry Beck’s niece. She recalled: ‘Whenever you went round to see Harry and his wife, Nora, Harry would be working on the map, which would be

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only wanted to look at the Beck memorial, the gateman smiled in approval and nodded me through. There is also a permanent exhibition devoted to Harry Beck in the London Transport Museum, and after years of the map appearing unsigned, his name has been restored: ‘This diagram is an evolution of the

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original design conceived in 1931 by Harry Beck.’ If I may, I will add a personal footnote. As a journalist writing regularly about public transport, I scored two campaigning victories. The first was

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are up ‘hugely’ since then. In the shop, postcards and posters are the big sellers. And the image ‘that really punches above its weight’ is Harry Beck’s Tube map. You can buy a bag made out of Tube or bus seat moquette, or commission a sofa made in that moquette, so

The London Compendium

by Ed Glinert · 30 Jun 2004 · 1,088pp · 297,362 words

, based around a collection of vehicles first assembled in Chiswick in the 1920s by the London General Omnibus Company. The museum features the work of Harry Beck, designer of the first structured underground map in 1931, while the shop, one of the best of the many London museum shops, contains a large

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, leaving Mill Hill East on a conspicuous stump jutting out from the main High Barnet branch. Finchley Central The southbound platform has a reproduction of Harry Beck’s original 1930s Underground map, as it was his local station. East Finchley Located at the northern end of what until the end of the

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss · 6 Dec 2016 · 669pp · 210,153 words

: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story (Dan Harris) Beck, Glenn: The Book of Virtues (William J. Bennett), Winners Never Cheat (Jon Huntsman) Bell, Mark: COAN: The Man, The Myth, The Method: The Life, Times

The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever

by Christian Wolmar · 30 Sep 2009 · 447pp · 126,219 words

. Probably the next greatest impact of the Underground on London is the design and architecture. The purity of the design is encapsulated most famously in Harry Beck’s map of the system, but also given expression in the architecture of numerous stations and the consistency of the use of the typeface, Johnston

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it quickly became an essential part of the capital’s infrastructure. Yet, oddly, it was to take another sixty-five years and the creation of Harry Beck’s famous diagram before the name ‘Circle Line’ appeared on the London Underground map. FIVE SPREADING OUT Neither the Metropolitan nor the District wasted the

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even ocean liners. It was a breakthrough in showing integrated information, although it was still fairly confusing compared with the simple brilliance of the version Harry Beck designed in the 1930s.8 Large enamelled copies of the map were displayed at stations and outside there were illuminated versions under the slogan ‘Anywhere

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art for the masses. The most enduring image of the Underground, also introduced by Pick, is, of course, the famous schematic Underground map conceived by Harry Beck. Along with the roundel, it typifies how London Transport wanted to be perceived – modern, clean, forward-looking and elegant. Like London Transport itself, the map

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nearly did not happen. Its designer, Harry Beck, had been a junior draughtsman for the Underground but had been made redundant by the time he sketched out the first draft of the famous

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) Building a station using the Greathead shield (TfL) A 1908 map of the Underground A 1932 map of the Underground A modern-day version of Harry Beck’s map of the Underground (TfL) A 1905 poster advertising the ‘Twopenny Tube’ (TfL) Down Street station, Mayfair (TfL) Charles Yerkes (TfL) A station assistant

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a chaotic representation of the system. Many passengers, particularly those unfamiliar with London, must have been bewildered by its complexity. The modern version of the Harry Beck map demonstrates the flexibility of the design as it incorporates several extra lines and many more stations but still follows the principles he first set

The Making of Modern Britain

by Andrew Marr · 16 May 2007 · 618pp · 180,430 words

and ozone: it was designed by Erich Mendelsohn, who had fled from the Nazis, and by Serge Chermayeff. Other modernists were home-grown, such as Harry Beck, a young draughtsman working for the signalling department of London Transport, who in 1931 came up with the idea for the Underground map – a simple

The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions Into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways

by Michael Williams · 6 May 2015 · 332pp · 102,372 words

Met’s marketing department, has vanished into obscurity, unlike other heroes of the London Tube such as Frank Pick, who pioneered the house style, and Harry Beck, who designed the famous Tube map. Legend has it that Garland was ill in bed with flu when ‘Metro-land’ came to mind. Lazarus-like

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

by Paulina Rowinska · 5 Jun 2024 · 361pp · 100,834 words

video, 1987, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C1796780. printed on 500 trial pocket maps: ‘Harry Beck’, Famous Graphic Designers, 2018, accessed 29 May 2023, https://www.famousgraphicdesigners.org/harry-beck. clear and simple to navigate: Alexander J. Kent, ‘When Topology Trumped Topography: Celebrating 90 Years of Beck’s Underground

Beautiful Visualization

by Julie Steele · 20 Apr 2010

a typewriter. Strong graphic design treatment isn’t a requirement for beauty. The London Underground Map The second classic beautiful visualization we’ll consider is Harry Beck’s map of the London Underground (aka the Tube map—see Figure 1-2). The Tube map was influenced by conventions and standards for visuals

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, it fit easily into my pocket, to be whipped out at a second’s notice for immediate reference (which I did often!). Figure 5-2. Harry Beck’s map of the London Underground makes a complex system appear simple and elegant. 1933 London Tube Map © TfL from the London Transport Museum collection

Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland · 15 Jan 2021 · 342pp · 72,927 words

the city it represents, but also of the idea of human-centred transport. The version we are familiar with today was created in 1933 by Harry Beck, a technical draughtsman from Leyton, East London. Having spent the previous decade drawing electrical wiring diagrams, his masterstroke was transferring that skill set to map

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. Green and S. Mullins. 2012. Underground: How the Tube Shaped London. London: Allen Lane. Figure 2. Making sense of the messy middle: before and after Harry Beck. London is certainly not the only city to have used human-centred design to help confused travellers on its public transport system. For instance, it

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. Frith. 2000. Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97(8), 4398–4403. Figure 9. Harry Beck shows-off his hard fought innervation. Recall the story of the London Underground map from chapter 1. It is hard to overstate how much impact

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innovation. Experimenting in 2014, psychologist Max Roberts demonstrated that while people found spaghetti-style maps more attractive, they find them harder to actually use.8 Harry Beck made similar discoveries in his initial 500-copy trial, noting that the obvious zigzag simplification needed to be complemented with stations that were more equally