{"id":1845076,"date":"2025-10-21T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1845076"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:03:00","slug":"deins-transit-maps-london-in-the-style-of-paris-and-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/10\/deins-transit-maps-london-in-the-style-of-paris-and-vice-versa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dein\u2019s Transit Maps: London in the Style of Paris, and Vice Versa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abraham Dein makes transit maps in the style of other transit maps\u2014notably, a London Tube map in the style of a Paris metro map, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM22Sm3qzLs\/\">emphasizing express lines and anchored by orbital routes<\/a>. But he\u2019s also got other cities, like Barcelona, Glasgow and Paris, drawn in the London or Paris style, on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/metromapdesign\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@metromapdesign\">TikTok<\/a> pages, and for sale on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/MetroMapDesign\">Etsy<\/a> page. Via Mark Ovenden, who interviewed Dein on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vectisradio.com\/podcast\/catch-cast-with-mark-ovenden\/\">CATCH-cast program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Dein makes transit maps in the style of other transit maps\u2014notably, a London Tube map in the style of a Paris metro map, emphasizing express lines and anchored by orbital routes. But he\u2019s also&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/10\/deins-transit-maps-london-in-the-style-of-paris-and-vice-versa\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-10-21T13:03:05+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m3pfd3lvao2f","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m3pfd3lvao2f\",\"cid\":\"bafyreiadhofg6avqxw2mytfq6evk657h5dzqu54khejilrwalw6qfi4eyu\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreicbkkjh2jypdxxwqjyod6ebm5olmr6h4o2b5zvxqem72fx6o4dcoa\",\"rev\":\"3m3pfd3m5zw2f\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[54,166,95,172,204],"class_list":["post-1845076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-cities","tag-london","tag-map-design","tag-paris","tag-tube","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788200,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/a-modern-day-tube-map-in-the-original-tube-map-style\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845076,"position":0},"title":"A Modern-Day Tube Map in the Original Tube Map Style","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 January 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"There have been a lot of Beck-style maps\u2014maps done in the style of the London underground map. 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