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Get Lost in Paris’ Metro System With This Gorgeous 3-D Station Map
• Wired.comThe service, Metropolitain.io, wasn’t a commissioned project, nor was it a specific client request — it was the side project of French startup tech company Dataveyes. Since the studio’s birth in 2010, it’s done a number of data-centric projects for companies like Google, BorderCloud, and l’Express, but Metropolitain.io gave them the chance to experiment to find the best way to take even the coldest data and create an inviting, user-centric visualization. Team members worked on it in between their other jobs; having no set deadline gave the them flexibility and enthusiasm to play around with different visualization techniques like map distortions and 3-D effects.
Not only was Metropolitain.io different because it was on Dataveyes’ own timeframe, its design process was also completely unique to the studio’s regular projects.