When I had my first baby in Hoboken in 2020, I was told that I wouldn’t be discharged from the hospital without a car seat, despite the fact that I don’t drive and live only a few blocks away. I remember feeling that it set the tone for my parenting journey in New Jersey - Am I supposed to always drive my baby around? The answer is no - it’s just that commuting with a child takes a little bit of…
I watched Disney-Pixar’s new movie Soul on Christmas day and thoroughly enjoyed it! It’s a story based in New York and one of the things that stuck out most to me, of course, is the details of the subway stations. The jazz club “Half Note” is in the village while Joe’s mother’s shop is next to an elevated 7 train, so I assume it’s somewhere in Queens. The animation team really nailed everything…
Last week, on the 19th anniversary of the tragic 911 attack, I shared my new Ground Zero Series , which was a collection of drawings that show what the 16-acre piece of land, where the twin towers once stood, looks like today. Here is the story behind it: The first set, the Ground Zero Collages , was generated by the same axonometric view of the site, with different programs highlighted in each…
Hello world, happy new year! Damn, did I really not write anything here in 2019?! It hasn’t always been easy to keep posting to all my social media outlets, but I assure you, Project Subway is still going! Here’s a quick recap of a few key things that happened in 2019… Visible City In July, I presented, along with Eddie Jabbour ( Kick Design ), George Kokkinidis ( Design Language ), and John…
Project Subway NYC finally launched an Etsy shop! From now til Cyber Monday (11/26), all prints will be on sale (20% cheaper than our original SquareSpace shop). Check them out, they make good Christmas Gifts! https://www.etsy.com/shop/projectsubwaynyc
I was so honored to be invited to do a presentation at Caveat back in September, and I had a blast! For those of you who haven’t been, Caveat is a comedy club in the Lower East Side, and is New York’s newest speakeasy stage for playful, intelligent nightlife. They have a series called “ Why Your Train is F*cked ” and they put on a show every month, where the two hilarious hosts ( Meg and Justin )…
Hello world!! It's been a while! I am so excited to announce that our new drawing series is finally here - X-Ray Station Clusters ! This time around, instead of one station per drawing with colored platforms, we have multiple stations per drawing and colored tracks that connect them all. See how complicated and crazy this intertwining network is! We focused on two main areas - Downtown Brooklyn…
#JustKeepSketching A fairly rectangular mezzanine So many exits I counted 9 total!
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I am trying to do something but it's not really going the way I want it to. So I just mindlessly Photoshop some textures, add some filters and shadows, and layer things on top of each other... this is a random moment that I quite like:
Just came back from Asia! This time I stopped by Seoul - nice city! It was a short trip but I managed to ride their metro a few times and notice some interesting things about the way signage is done. This sign gives you the distance to the nearest exit in meters: This one gives you the previous station and the next station (as opposed to the terminal station of that line): And this one is a 2D map…
As January has passed I am recharged and ready to get out and start drawing again. I started this project two and a half years ago and named it with "NYC" because that's all I set out to do, to draw the NYC subway stations. Little did I know the high rent, tiny apartments and a series of life events would eventually urged me to look for an alternative down the road - I now live in Hoboken New…
Winter's (especially THIS winter) too cold for me to go into the stations, so I decided I'll take January to read and organize my thoughts. Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation By Edward Humes Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World By Cal Newport Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars By Samuel I. Schwartz Lean In: Women,…
Happy holidays everyone! 2017, what a year! I hustled, drew, and drew some more. Here are some of the highlights of this year: Graphic on New York Times explaining the explosion at Port Authority with the help of model we provided Article on CityLab Article on Time Out New York 3D models Thank you for all your love and support! Really means a lot to me. I hope you are all having a wonderful…
I am really honored to be selected as one of eight presenters at Transit Center's Transitslam this year. Each presenter will present for 6 minutes about a transit-related topic, with 20 slides at 18 seconds apiece. Image source: transitcenter.org Details are as follows: Thursday, December 14th 6-8 PM TransitCenter 1 Whitehall Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 10004 More info is available at…
Launching postcards of the X-ray series at the end of the year... test batch is looking good! times square postcard - front and back
Project Subway NYC is finally on Twitter! Follow us @projsubwaynyc , we will keep you posted with the latest news about New York, transit, city planning, maps, architecture, graphic design, data visualization, wayfinding, and more! #followus #socialmedia @projsubwaynyc
By popular demand, the Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center print is finally ready! After four visits and God knows how many sketches. Check it out in our gallery and shop ! This is Project Subway NYC's second attempt to look into stations in Brooklyn, hope to do more soon. Let me know in the comment which stations you want to see, and don't forget to follow us on facebook and instagram…
So even just looking at the name of the station you know this is another hard one... it spans 4 blocks right off the bat! Although, the reason this is a tricky one has more to do with the fact that it's a combination of a large complex that is the Rockefeller Center and the subway station itself. It's hard to draw the line between which is part of the station and which isn't, since there are a few…
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time By Jeff Speck Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words By Randall Munroe