Terminal 21'S London Underground Map

[Shoeboat]

On the London floor (the 4th I think) there's a giant section of what appears to be the famous London Underground map on the wall of the corridor that leads to the toilets. Upon closer inspection, it's a fake. Bakerloo is 'Portaloo' and Hammersmith is 'Hammerhead', in fact each station, while retaining the original typeface, has been altered, presumably for copyright reasons. But why would London Undergound care about a homage to it's heritage on the other side of the planet, and more to the point (and no offence to Thailand) but this country has never seemed that concerned with international copyright laws so why all the effort and design team expense for this?

[Gaccha]

... a more interesting point to reflect on is the concentration on the consummerist cities and areas around the World in the floor themes. There was, of course, no Dhaka floor. It would perhaps have been nice to have a floor theme on the 2.4 million stateless living the Agamben 'bare life' in Thailand.

[smokie36]

I suspect you need to find a woman or an alcohol dependance OP. In no particular order.

[katana]

Was it the sponsored tube map?

"...a mocked-up version of what the Tube Map could look like if TfL decided to

allow corporate sponsors to pay them lots of money in return for slight

tube station name-changes, e.g. Alliance & Leicester Square, Pimmslico,

BaysWaterstone's, etc..."

http://www.londonban...d-tube-map.html

http://www.thetravel...be_sponsors.pdf

[Shoeboat]

I think that's actually it.

...And in reply to Gaccha, come on - are you really surprised?