Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Art Diary #2: The Map of Chicago Train's Loop

You may not pay much attention to this map when you take a train. Today, I met a passenger Joseph who just comes from New York. In New York, there are 26 trains serving in the subway system, and each train has its own color. People easy to miss stop if you don’t know the map. As a stranger, he used his experiences to record the Chicago Loop train’s map today. He used colors to draw a Chicago Loop train’s map because this map can give him more train directions for the trip. From these two maps, he has known that the Chicago ‘L’ is a large system. In his maps, he marked down the direction’s information what he needed for. The different colors clear to show him where he should stop or transfer. Finally, he got off the orange line train in Library/Van Buren through the arrows and orange color.

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