Becksploitation

In their 2014 newspaper Becksploitation: The Over-use of a Cartographic Icon Kenneth Field as well as William Cartwright runway against the overuse as well as parody of Harry Beck's iconic London Underground map. In their newspaper Field & Cartwright fence that Beck's map has move widely overused equally a map metaphor as well as is directly oft used equally "a short‐cut approach that rides on the success of mortal else’s difficult work, mayhap amongst the regulation aim of getting a project done rapidly".

To emphasize this exploitation of Beck's London Underground map Field & Cartwright created their ain London Underground map which links to over 220 examples of people copying or parodying Beck's classic design, You tin forcefulness out thought the master Beckploitation map on Kenneth Field's Cartonerd blog.

Of course of teaching Field & Cartwright's newspaper on the overuse of Harry Beck's iconic Underground map has had petty termination on the expose of people copying Beck's metro map design. His iconic pattern is an easily reproduced as well as recognized map metaphor as well as parodies of the map maintain to endure created on an virtually weekly basis.

Kenneth Field has thus been able to update his meta-Becksploitation map amongst many to a greater extent than examples of Harry Beck inspired maps. Field's novel End of the Line: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Tube Map of Tube Maps Parody Map directly includes virtually 300 maps inspired past times the London Underground map. In both the master Beckploitation map as well as this novel updated version each London Underground Station on the map is an event of a Beck inspired parody map. If yous click on a station name, on either map, yous tin forcefulness out thought a thumbnail icon of the parody as well as and then click on the thumbnail to thought the linked map.