On January 29 I wrote a post on a most quintessential piece of infographics – the London Underground map, created by Henry C. Beck in 1933. As I wrote then, it’s THAT brilliant a piece of design, that not only has it become a template of how transitmaps around the world are layed out, but it is also a tool that is SO ingeniously thought up, that we use it without even noticing it.

25:46 minutes (+ the time it took me to write the above) ago, I (via danskdynamit.com) stumbled upon a great BBC TV4 documentary on THE map. First of all I like the film because it backs up everything I from the top of my head wrote in the before mentioned post, and secondly I just like it because I’m geeky like that.

If you’re a bit of a geek too, or if you’re just tired of all the stupid game-, talent- and realityshows your TV spews at you, I recomend you to check out the documentary HERE.