“Number of Street Cars and Vehicles in the Downtown District of Toronto” print by the Civic Transportation Committee (1915)

If you spent most Friday nights cruising through arcane U of T Map & Data Library pages about the comings of goings of the Toronto Civic Transportation Committee circa 1915, you’d maybe find a yellowed and bent version of this beautiful pre-information age infographic. This one. I certainly did, and then I whitened the paper, cleaned it up, and straightened the bends, and what was once a utilitarian chart is now a utopia of organic forms (Queen’s Park) and Mondrianesque gridded lattice (everything else). 

A reproduction available at 12x18" or 24x36" on Epson Enhanced Matte 192 gsm paper printed with Epson UltraChrome XD2 archival ink. Sold in an open edition, unframed. Based on this original public domain image held by the University of Toronto Libraries Map & Data Library.