FANTASY SUBWAY PRESENTING: MS. SHERRY!
CHILDREN AND TEENS! If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade plant a tree; if you are planning for a lifetime educate people
Quote by WESS STAFFORD PRESIDENT COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: “EVERY CHILD YOU ENCOUNTER IS A DIVINE APPOINTMENT”
TRANSIT MAPS OF THE WORLD The World’s First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden London England 1863 1900’s a Fragmented system and Underground trademark 1908 poster 1911 small pocket maps 1916 Johnston typeface. The use of color line of sans-serif font made this arguably the finest urban-rail diagram in the world. st Calligrapher (fancy hand writing!) MacDonald Gill 1933 Beck’s design Pg (#9-13)
Secret Subway Fascinating Tale of An Amazing Feat of Engineering by Martin W. Sandler 1860’s New York City had become the most exciting place in the world Alfred Beach pg. 32 Boss Tweed biggest political obstacle for Alfred Beach Pg. 51 Building the Subway in the basement of Delvin’s Clothing Store. Pg. 54 Pg. 57 Pg. 58 Pg. 61 The Subway Revealed Pg. 77 1880’s William Parsons had served as chief of engineers for the U. S. Army during the Spanish and American War. Pg. 85
Helvetica and the New York City Subway System by Paul Shaw This book is how Typography (the art or process of printing with type ordered) triumphed over chaosart 1904 New York City’s first Subway a company called Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) ran from city hall to lower Manhattan to the Bronx 1913 Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Independent Subway System Today Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Pg. ix Helvetica is the typeface of MTA today Pg. 2-3 (Mosaic) Pg Chronology
Graffiti Graffiti has been on Railway Box cars, and New York Subway system’s. World War II: Kilroy was here
Graffiti Our first attempt at Graffiti we made mistakes!!! Do NOT USE GLOSS PAINT ON GLOSS PAPER We used Demco Boxes or Science project boxes. Our second attempt was much better, we used flat paint on Gloss paper. (Consider Weather) We purchased Brick paper online We plan on using Markers as well.
Wax Paper Transit Maps
Wax Paper Transit Maps cont. We used Wax Paper Make sure it is the side you can use markers on! We used Sharpie Markers, the other markers will wipe off First we took the City of Lawrenceburg Map and traced a system Second we decided on a Fantasy Subway We used sticky dots from Wal-mart, office section.
Movies and Music Videos taken in the Subway Michael Jackson Prince of Caspian Speed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Superman The French Connection Crocodile Dundee
Street Signs The street signs we made were streets in Lawrenceburg We used paint, glitter, markers (sharpie), daubers We used durable cardboard and just cut the shape of the signs.