Katy Dickinson

Homage to Beck Subway and Metro Maps

I have written from time to time about the subway and metro map collection Sun Distinguished Engineer Danny Cohen and I have been building for some years in Sun Labs Menlo Park, CA. Last May, a large part of our map collection was destroyed due to a misunderstanding on the part of a facilities contractor. I am pleased to announce that our Homage to Beck metro map boards are back - better than before! After facilities staff and others donated new maps, Danny and I now have enough for two extra-large bulletin boards in addition to our original board. We have maps of:

    * Amsterdam     * Bangkok     * Barcelona
    * Boston        * Budapest    * Cairo Egypt
    * Chicago       * Frankfurt   * Hamburg
    * Helsinki      * Hong Kong   * Houston
    * Kuala Lampur  * London      * Lyon France
    * Madrid        * Marseilles  * Moscow Russia
    * Munich        * New York    * Oslo
    * Paris         * Prague      * Rome
    * San Francisco * Santa Clara * Seoul
    * Singapore     * Sofia       * St. Petersburg Russia
    * Stockholm     * Sydney      * Taipei
    * Tokyo         * Washington  * Wellington NZ
    * Zurich

All of the maps in our collection present a design that derives at least partially from Harry Beck's 1933 London subway map. The point of the display is that excellent design communicates across cultures and can perpetuate itself through inspiration.

New bulletin boards

Original collection down the hall

Danny and me

"New Yorker" Subway Man

Maps close up

Maps posted so far

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

For photos of the original map display, check out my blog - February 07, 2008.

For your own instant map collection, buy

Transit Maps of the World - The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
by Mark Ovenden, Penguin, 2007

ISBN-10: 0143112651, ISBN-13: 978-0143112655

Posted at 09:22PM Sep 06, 2008 by katysblog in News & Reviews  | 

All 2008-2009 SEEDs Matched

Welcome and Congratulations to the 84 New Mentoring Pairs of SEED's September 2008 - September 2009 Recent Hire Term (23) and the September 2008 - March 2009 Established Staff Term (61): we are honored and delighted to include them in Sun's worldwide Engineering mentoring program!

These terms had a 57 day matching cycle (9 July - 4 September 2008). 76% were matched in the first 14 days. Some additional metrics:

• Executive Mentors
• Recent Hire Term: 5 Vice Presidents or Fellows (22%), 10 Distinguished Engineers or Directors (43%), and 8 other titles (35%). 65% executive mentors
• Established Staff Term: 17 Vice Presidents or Fellows (28%), 34 Distinguished Engineers or Directors (56%), and 10 other titles (16%). 84% executive mentors
• Local vs. Distant
• Recent Hire Term: 5 mentoring partners working locally (22%), 18 working at a distance - in another state or country (78%)
• Established Staff Term: 14 mentoring partners working locally (23%), 47 working at a distance - in another state or country (77%)
• Meeting Priorities
• 77% of mentees were matched with one of their top four mentor requests
• 54 mentees were matched with their 1st or 2nd priority mentor (64%)
• 11 mentees were matched with their 3rd or 4th priority mentor (13%)
• 19 mentees were matched with a mentor lower than 4th in priority (23%)

More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program is available at http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Posted at 08:35PM Sep 06, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |