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Old Jun 18, 2018, 3:38 am
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Originally Posted by sant2585
Off-topic (right thread for it, right?), but of interest for design nerds: came across an interesting blogpost by a map designer showing the thought-process and design choices for redesigning the in-flight magazine route map (an unnamed client in the blogpost, but clearly for EK). I can't remember when the last time I opened the magazine (straight onto ICE the moment I'm seated in Y), but I thought it was a cool bit of design work to reimagine the EK route map.

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress...rline-mapping/
Perfectly on-topic off-topic.

Interesting read. I like how, as it so often happens, "In the end, the client eventually preferred a more traditional representation"
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