George Orwell, in his essay Why I Write, says of the aesthetic desire to write that "above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations".
It looks like we'll have to include railway guides as well. TreeHugger has a slide show of alternative subway maps. Some of them are very beautiful.
Some of my favorites include a redesigned New York map that is much cleaner than what we have today.

Then there is the redesigned Tokyo map. I've bought a poster of this from Zero Per Zero.

Scientists have also recently found what may be the oldest known map. Check out the overlay of animal drawings.


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