Map of the Day: A Vignelli ampersand

Pentagram has designed a Vignelli inspired ampersand. (Click to enlarge)

Via my new favorite tumblr Transit Maps comes this design gem from Amsterdam. Pentagram’s Luke Hayman, working for the Dutch magazine Eigen Huis & Interieur’s New York Design Guide issue, repurposed the Vignelli subway map into EH&I’s ampersand with stations representing key players in the city’s design scene.

Pentagram had more to say about the design:

Pentagram’s Luke Hayman and his team recently redesigned EH&I and established the masthead’s ampersand as an icon of the brand. Each month a different designer is invited to interpret the ampersand for the opening of the “Interieur” section, and for the New York issue, Hayman created an ampersand inspired by Massimo Vignelli’s classic 1972 map of the New York City subway system. In the new version, the lines of the ampersand playfully connect contemporary and historic New York designers, agencies and institutions, from Milton Glaser, George Lois, Ruth Ansel and the Museum of Modern Art to Karlssonwilker, Local Projects, Dror and Pentagram (of course).

You can download a PDF of the map right here. As a subway system design, the ampersand certainly offers some intriguing crosstown subway routes too.