The year is 1931 in London. An unassuming engineering draughtsman by the name of Harry Beck started his career drawing schematics for the electrical system of the underground train network. What he didn't know was how his journey of drafting would lead him to create one of design's most important pieces: London's Underground subway system, also known as the Tube map.
As expected, anything new would meet skeptics, and Beck was no exception. After all, how could a technical draughtsman be an innovative cartographer? The initial design would meet rejection on a couple of occasions before his perseverance paid off when he was allowed 500 copies to be distributed at a few stations in 1932. The rest was history a year later, when seven hundred thousand copies were printed and reprinted only after a month of publication.
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