Circular subway map reimagines New York as a colorful, geometric array

There are a lot of ways to design a good subway map, but completely distorting the landscape usually isn't one of them. However, mapmaker Max Roberts thinks that there's two ways to go about it -- even if his method isn't always logical: he's redesigned the New York City subway system to into a clean, colorful pattern of lines that run across a landmass that looks almost nothing like the boroughs you know. "Geographical purists will be after my blood," Roberts told Gothamist. The map aligns the ...