Transportation
100 Ideas for Improving the New York City Subway in 100 Days
From simple hand-sanitizer to a suction garbage system and beyond.
A couple months ago, as part of his master's program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Randy Gregory II decided to take part in the Michael Bierut's famous "100 day project." The idea is for young designers to pick a theme, produce some creative work based on that theme every day for 100 days, and document the whole experience — a sort of intellectual marathon. Gregory realized that his experience commuting to and from school on the subway was a theme unto itself.
"Whether it was something obvious, like someone swiping their Metrocard multiple times in frustration, or something deeper, like a user in a wheelchair pushing himself from one end of the station to the other, I kept seeing 'pain points' in the process," he says.