The Great New York Subway Map

by Emiliano Ponzi (Author)

The Great New York Subway Map
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Nearly 6 million riders use the New York City subway every day. How do you make a map that helps all of them get to where they are going? The Great New York Subway Map, written and illustrated by Emiliano Ponzi and published by The Museum of Modern Art, in association with the New York Transit Museum, tells the fascinating story of the map's creation in 1972 by the great Italian designer Massimo Vignelli and his team, and introduces young readers to the idea of graphic design as a way to solve problems and shape our world.
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Emiliano Ponzi
Emiliano Ponzi's award-winning illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the Washington Post. He lives in Milan and New York.

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781633450257
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art
Publication date
February 27, 2018
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF038100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States
JNF057050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Transportation | Railroads & Trains
JNF006000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Art | General
Library of Congress categories
History
New York (State)
New York
Picture books
20th century
Juvenile works
Subways
Vignelli, Massimo

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