Design
A Painstakingly Recreated S-Bahn Map From a Divided Berlin
A 1980 version of the city's transit map, brought back to life.
Max Roberts usually spends his time bringing his own cartographic fantasies to life. But after a visit to Berlin's S-Bahn and U-Bahn museums, he decided to painstakingly recreate an actual subway map from scratch.
His inspiration? A postcard version of a rare Berlin S-Bahn map from 1980, one the transit enthusiast had never seen before. Calling it "one of the most powerful designs I have seen," Roberts took a photo and recreated it on his computer. The University of Essex psychology lecturer looks at the map as a symbol of an especially bleak period in the S-Bahn's history.