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It was a September 4, 1969 When the then president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz inaugurated the Metro of Mexico City. One of the most important public transport in the Mexican capital.
50 years have passed since then and the subway has been transformed radically to provide the best service to 3.9 million passengers -In average- that use it every day. He currently has 12 lines and 195 stations that differ from each other thanks to the use of colors and an iconography that became a reference in the world of design.
((Read more: Thus looks the secret station of the Mexico City Metro.))
Commemorating its fifty anniversary, we enter the story behind some of the most emblematic or strange symbols of metropolitan transport.
Lance Wyman
Who designed the iconography of the Mexico City Metro?
Lance Wyman, Francisco Gallardo and Arturo Quiñones They are the minds behind the signaling of the subway stations. With the previous experience of Wyman as the creator of the image of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, the city government went back to him to create a design for the subway similar to that achieved in the Olympic fair.
One of the objectives that the creatives received was that as a whole, everything The STC signaling system complied with the purpose of guiding and guiding the user. The name and logo of each station should have Immediate reference to the place of the same, whether historical, cultural, of circumvecin identity, of illustrious characters, etc.