The Tube maps are part of London life and you can get them on any tube station. Whenever I'm in London I dash to the nearest tube station to check if there's a new one. I personally love them! I always get two: one I put into my oyster wallet and the other I put into my calendar so they won't get crumpled. Yes, I do collect tube maps :)
Since 2004 different artists from all over the world have been designing front cover for the tube map. Thanks to that commuters draw attention to weighty matters and those who are interested in modern art can get to know a new artist.
The description below I took from Art on the Underground website as I wouldn't have written it better, if you want to learn more about Tube Map Projects go to the website and enjoy reading!
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Tube Map), May 2010
You Are in London (2004) is an image that is deceptive in its apparent simplicity, and its own identity is inextricably linked with that of London Underground. It is a multi-coloured target that playfully combines the Tube-line colours with art-historical references, graphic design and our collective memory.
Emma Kay, You are in London, August 2004
Hume’s new work, an abstract grid made up of colours that relate to those of the Tube map itself, immediately references a diagram or indeed a map.
Gary Hume, Untitled, July 2005
In this bright, anarchic and humorous work, Shrigley has subverted the reassuring order of the Underground map and turned it into a wriggling, teeming fiesta, echoing the absurd confusion of one of his comic characters when confronted by an extensive travel network
David Shrigley, Map of the London Underground, February 2006
Having notched up a total of 542 months service, John Hough is Transport for London’s current longest serving member of staff.
Jeremy Deller with Paul Ryan, Portrait of John Hough (Transport for London's longest serving member of staff - 45 years of service), July 2007
The countries of the world have been given a subtle shift of identity by implying new relationships between them based on the colours of the Tube lines.
Yinka Shonibare, Global Underground Map, June 2006
The design shows the words of the date of the last day in London without London’s famous Underground network: Friday 9 January 1863. London Underground commenced services the following day on 10 January 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon.
Liam Gillick, The Day Before (You know what they'll call it? They'll call it the Tube), January 2007
The work plays on the idea of maps, orientation and image association - Cornelia Parker has used the colours of the different Underground lines from Harry Beck’s iconic Tube map to create a new symbol for the front cover of the pocket Tube map.
Cornelia Parker, Underground Abstract, January 2008
Coinciding with the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 Going Underground appropriates the RAF ‘roundel’ which consists of red, white and blue concentric circles. Placing this roundel on the front cover of the Pocket Tube Map draws the historic symbol into a new context, consequently making formal references with LU’s own famous logo as well as referring to historical links between both institutions.
Mark Wallinger, Going Underground, May 2008
White's cover for the pocket Tube map, available to collect at stations, complements her proposal for the renowned Gloucester Road space - using the flying carpet motif as a suggestion of magical transport.
Pae White, ...fragment of a Magic Carpet circa 1213, October 2008
British artist Paul Noble has received widespread international recognition for his monumental eight-year project - the meticulous depiction of a fictional city called Nobson Newtown. Working in pencil, his wall-sized drawings offer aerial perspectives over a fantastical cityscape.
Paul Noble, Troubadour Carrying a Cytiole, March 2009
The work, entitled Earth, shows the different colours of the Tube lines stacked on top of each other, with the black grid between them referencing the Northern line.
Richard Long, Earth, September 2009
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