Transport Mapping

Disseny de mapes de transport públic

About me

I’m Kevin Arguzón, passionate about mobility and how cities move and manage, public transport map designer and (almost) architect.

Although it seems cliché, as a child I already liked maps. At the age of 10 I tried to draw the Barcelona Metro map with Word. Obviously I failed. But I learned that Arial was not the same typeface as the one on that map. Years later I learned it’s called Helvetica.

During my teenage years I discovered vector design programs such as Freehand or Illustrator. I began to suspect that the maps were not made in Word. Not with Paint.

Later I discovered layout programs (first QuarkXPress and then InDesign). I realized that despite not knowing how to use them, important posts are made with these programs.

I started Architecture and there I learned, among many other things, more tools for representing spaces at different scales: from 1:1 for construction details to 1:10,000 for urban plans. All this under the pressure of deliveries, the few hours of sleep and the fatal errors of AutoCAD.

Already with the right tools and with the aim of learning how to use them through useful and aesthetic projects, I started making some maps.

And one thing leads to another. Until you get here.