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Emiliano Ponzi

The Great New York Subway Map

The Great New York Subway Map. May 2018. Written and illustrated by Emiliano Ponzi and published by The Museum of Modern Art, in association with the New York Transit Museum, tells the fascinating story of the map’s creation in 1972 by the great Italian designer Massimo Vignelli and his team.

The Great New York Subway Map
Emiliano Ponzi

The Great New York Subway Map

The Great New York Subway Map. May 2018. Written and illustrated by Emiliano Ponzi and published by The Museum of Modern Art, in association with the New York Transit Museum, tells the fascinating story of the map’s creation in 1972 by the great Italian designer Massimo Vignelli and his team.

The Great New York Subway Map
Emiliano Ponzi

Francis Bacon Studio

Francis Bacon Studio. December 2018. Bacon had a mews house in Kensington for the last 30 years of his life: two rooms. His bed was in the sitting room and the other room was his studio. It was very chaotic, with about a foot of books and photos. And rags and paint brushes and paint, old sweaters and socks on the floor.

Architectural Digest Germany
Emiliano Ponzi

Hotel Roosevelt

Hotel Roosevelt. August 2018. During the summer of 2018, EP spent 21 days exploring California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. The book American West is his travel journal accompanied by a few lines of writing. The New Yorker asked to publish them on its Art Department’s IG and then the illustrations come in a box set in the same square format.

American West