Max Roberts The Massimo Vignelli subway map (or, more accurately, subway diagram), introduced in 1972, was modeled after Harry Beck’s simplified map of the London Underground, and modified aspects of New York City’s geography to maximize the diagram’s visual navigability. It was widely loathed for that very reason, and was replaced seven years later, in 1979. However, Vignelli’s work has enjoyed something of a nostalgic resurgence in popularity in recent years, and now Max Roberts, designer of the concentric circle subway map…