Henry "Harry" Beck will forever go down in history as the man who created the modern day tube map. With Beck's nifty 'circuit board' design, precise geography was tossed asunder to make way for a ...

A play about the man who designed London’s Tube map will open in the West End on the 50th anniversary of his death. The Truth About Harry Beck will open at the London Transport Museum’s own ...

Born in 1902, Beck was an English engineering draftsman who sparked a small revolution in the early 1930s when he created a radical new map of the London Underground. His linear, color-coded ...

Harry Beck reimagined the map system by basing it on a circuit diagram A play exploring the life of London Tube map creator Harry Beck has opened on the 50th anniversary of his death. First ...

It keeps a lot of the official tube map’s colors and iconography, so it sort of looks like the Beck Map was stretched and distorted over a proper street map of London. When Burbage filed his ...

Click/tap for larger size. Someone's taken on Harry Beck, and may just be winning. This new, unofficial version of the tube map has been doing the rounds online. It has drawn both praise and ire.

Tube map pioneer Harry Beck will today have his iconic creation officially commemorated on the 80th anniversary of its first public appearance. An English Heritage Blue Plaque will be unveiled at ...

Luke Carvill has taken it upon himself to recreate the iconic Harry Beck design in order to make the map more user friendly for Londoners and tourists alike. The former Londoner, who is now based ...

High res first pocket edition of the Underground map by Harry Beck, January 1933 TfL/London Transport Museum It was inspired by circuit diagrams he drew in his work as an electrical draughtsman ...

A play exploring the life of London Tube map creator Harry Beck has opened on the 50th anniversary of his death. First created in 1931, the map moved away from geographical features of the city ...