Probably the postcard that was the most labour-intensive and shows the less for it. The U-Bahn is well known for its beautiful tiled signs - but these become frustrating when you have to recreate said tiles repeatedly in illustrator. Again, like the Metro sign, because all the typefaces are widely different, I had to hand-trace the type over existing images of the signs which was fairly time consuming - as was copying and pasting hundreds of tiles over and over again. I then arranged the signs around the edge of the artboard until I got a crop that I liked.
Whilst I do like this card and I think it definately represents the U-Bahn - I think the colours and the black grouting on some of the tiles kind of irks me - though I think thats largely from being subject to years of vector-based clipart that uses the same visual style. I think if I recreated this i'd probably see what effect texture would have on them, to see if it would age the tile work any better
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