Harry Beck

Recent articles about Harry Beck

The chap behind the diagram

Issue 107, Winter 2025

Review

Londoners and designers have an immense fondness for the London Underground diagram, or ‘tube map’. And they were out in force for The Truth About Harry Beck

London Letters

Issue 91, Spring 2016

Feature

Philip Sayer photographs lettering on the streets of London in this alphabetical compendium

Recent blog posts about Harry Beck

Even further beyond Beck

16 September 2013
Critical path, Design history, Graphic design, Information design, Reviews

Extended review: Rob Waller takes a closer look at Underground Maps Unravelled by psychologist Maxwell Roberts
Harry Beck’s underground map has to be the most celebrated and discussed instance of information…