| Abstract |
| The subway in Seoul where is capital of Korea for six hundreds years has been rooted in citizen`s life as a fast, safety, and comfortable means of transportation and it has been made a specific culture and grown up as the core of transportation system. But always the lacks of consistency have been raised in the Visual Information Community for the subway users. In the design aspect, the information for color of route map design, typography, and graphic symbol of transfer station is insufficient because it does not based on cognitive psychology and visual and perceptional study. In order to analyze the subway route map design in Seoul, we analyzed the Under Ground Transportation in London, England and items for the design in Paris, France, Frankfurt, Germany, Moscow, Russia, Tokyo, Japan, Hong Kong, and New York, USA. We then performed the analysis, through the questions to the unspecified number(160 persons) of the public lived in Seoul, for practical design of color of the route map, typography, and graphic symbol of transfer station. The problems of the route map design in Seoul and direction of the design for the Information Community are following; First, the primary color of the map should be considered to change to the pastel color or traditional color of Korea and brightness and chroma. Second, the typography for Information Community should be maintained integration because the variation of size, readability, and marking method lead to fall into confusion to numerous users. Third, the graphic symbol (circle, triangle, quadrangle, lozenge, etc..) of subway route map design should be considered as very important expression when the route map is designed. The graphic symbol should be designed simply and it should have excellent visual perception. The subway route map design should be made up Information Community System for the users. The establishment of consistent design system such as thickness of line or shape, solid line, and dotted line as symbol of uniform relation, color, typography, and graphic symbol of transfer station should be based on cognitive psychology and visual and perceptional study. |
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| Key Words |
| Information Community, Subway information Transportation Subway line design analysis |
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