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Mark Ovenden is our guest blogger during the week of December 3rd. If you have any questions for Mark Ovenden, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some brief information about Transit Maps of the World:
Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of mass transit-including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Transit Maps is the graphic designer’s new bible, the transport enthusiast’s dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who’s ever traveled in a city.
About Mark Ovenden
Born in London in 1963, Mark Ovenden evinced an early fascination with trains and TV that has remained with him over the course of his life. Following college he pursued a number of positions in local government and on the radio promoting progressive attitudes towards gay issues before getting a full time job at BBC Radio 1 as a producer. In 1998 he joined MTV as a freelance Music Programmer, where he gave birth to another production company which went on to produce shows for Atlantic252. There Mark was later taken on as a presenter of a weekly record review show with Chris Coco and as their specialist programmes producer and later breakfast newsreader.
When Atlantic252 closed down Mark moved to Ministry Of Sound where he helped set up their DAB station, Ibiza unit and later, as Head of Radio there, ran a popular FM version of the station. Mark moved into consultancy after this working with Purple radio and the DRG.
In 2002 while still working in his spare time on his book project he moved to a fledgling TV channel as Channel Manager.
Mark Ovenden's Metro Maps of the World was published in November 2003 to great critical acclaim. It has since been re-written and updated for the American market and is now published by Penguin as Transit Maps of the World. Mark currently resides in Paris where he is researching his next book on a century of cartography of the Paris Metro Map. He is also working on several other book projects, a radio sit-com, and a TV travel show.
Transit Maps of the World
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Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 144 pages | ISBN 9780143112655 | 30 Oct 2007 | Penguin
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8th Grader with a passion for maps and directions
Hello and Happy Holidays!
My 8 1/2 year old son is in love with the transit maps of NYC (both bus and train) that he actually sits down and writes down each stop from the train for most of the NYC train lines. I purchased your book "Transit Maps of the World". I was wondering if you had more diagrams of transit maps, or even older diagrams or offer information about where we can visit/tour in NYC other than the NYC Transit Museum.He is in the third grade and I am trying to find things for him to do during the few days that he has off for the Christmas break.
He constantly writes directions, studies road, street, bus and the transit maps and I hope that one day it would embrace his as much as he has a passion for it. I recently bought him the 2008 Rand Road Map of the states for Christmas but would love to have him have hands-on. If you don't know of any areas for us to visit, with such a love for maps and trains, could you recommend what I could do to nurture this passion. Would it be possible for you to send him any old maps that you could spare. We would be grateful for whatever you have. Our address is as follows: Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
P.S. It was recommended that I purchase him an architect's set but I am not sure what to look for that is not too advanced for him, any suggestions? Thanks and be blessed this holiday season.
Jeriah Markel Johnson
c/o Carleen Burke-Fernandes
P.O. Box 231144
New York City, NY 10023
917-733-6294
email address for reply: carleenjohnson@hotmail.com