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London Underground Circuit Map Radio – so cool



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This London Underground Circuit Map Radio is so cool it hurts. Delivered to us via the excellent artistic talent of Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, the whole is clearly greater than the sum of its parts. What makes this doubly delicious is the fact that the original iconic Tube map we all use today was designed in 1933 by an electrical engineer called Harry Beck who worked for London Underground, and he once produced a joke map with the stations replaced by electrical symbols. Art follows life follows art.

We suspect this would sell rather well if it was offered as more than just an art exhibit, but for now we’ll have to be content with viewing it at the Design Museum in London.


 London Underground Circuit Map Radio   so cool

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Nigel is the managing editor of the Red Ferret, as well as a freelance columnist for the Sunday Times newspaper in London. Loves tech and fancies himself as a bit of a futurist, but then don't we all?

Nigel – who has written posts on The Red Ferret Journal.


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