
	Where results make sense

Topic: Harry Beck

Related Topics

Tube map

Closed London Underground stations

London Underground

Jubilee Line

Circle Line

Metropolitan Line

Jubilee Line Extension

East London Line

London Borough of Barnet

Finchley

Tower of London tube station

Finchley Central

History of the London Underground

Notting Hill Gate tube station

British Museum tube station

In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Harry Beck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Beck (Henry C. Beck, 1903–1974) was a graphic designer, best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931.
		Beck struggled furiously to regain control of the map, but responsibility for the map was eventually given to a third designer, Paul Garbutt.
		After long failing to acknowledge Beck's importance as the original designer of the Tube map, London Regional Transport finally created the Beck gallery at the London Transport Museum in the early 1990s, where his works can be seen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Beck (349 words)

	No. 02-2602
		Beck does not argue that the trial court's refusal to grant requests for dismissal of certain jurors for cause was error or that he was unfairly forced to use peremptory strikes to remove biased jurors.
		Beck agreed that his house should be pointed out and could have alerted the trial court to the existence of the sign that he subsequently claimed to be prejudicial.
		Beck indicated that he was jealous of Kim's relationship with her training partner and knew that they would die if he failed to punch out the windows of the burning building after they went in.
	www.wisbar.org /res/capp/2003/02-2602.htm (2393 words)

	Harry Beck's "Design Classic" of the London Underground Map - Radical and Incremental Design.
		Producing a design that involves a totally different and fresh approach clearly has the likelihood of much greater opposition ~ this certainly proved the case when Harry Beck chose to submit a new idea for a 'simpler' map of the London Underground system in 1931.
		The use we have for the map now is much the same as when it was created except that Beck's design included only 8 lines whereas now there are 14 ~ clearly we have a more complicated network to navigate than in the 1930's.
		These early maps were not Beck's and as the tube layout became more complex he realised that a major simplification was necessary.
	www.design-technology.info /alevelsubsite/page5.htm (432 words)

	The Decline of Dave Beck
		Beck's candidate, Mayor John F. Dore, was ingloriously defeated in the primary election of February 21 by Langlie and Meyers.
		Beck suffered another major defeat when he tried to annex the drivers of brewery trucks, who have traditionally belonged to the industrially organized A. of L. brewery workers.
		The final and crushing blow was the defeat of Beck and Dore in the Seattle primaries, with its repercussions within the A. of L. After the primaries the firefighters and several other conservative unions deserted the teamsters to support Meyers and the Washington Commonwealth Federation slate.
	newdeal.feri.org /nation/38146p354.htm (1569 words)

	InfoGr: London Underground Map (3)
		Beck's original version was sketched in a school exercise book; and subsequently worked up into artwork for reproduction, where every line was drawn by hand, and every station name and the key were hand lettered.
		Harry Beck could not have guessed at the range of items to which his design has been applied; and the international influence he has undoubtedly had upon the design of other public transport network diagrams.
		CONCLUSION Harry Beck clearly was fascinated by the workings of the London Underground system, and he lovingly devoted a sustained personal effort over a period of more than thirty years to making modifications and improvements to the diagram.
	list.informationdesign.org /pipermail/infodesign/1997-October/000031.html (3640 words)

	Tube map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original map [1] was designed in 1931 by London Transport employee Harry Beck, who realised that, because the railway ran mostly underground, the actual physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only the topology of the railway mattered.
		A facsimile of Beck's original design is on display on the southbound platform at his local station, Finchley Central.
		The important development that Beck made with his Tube Map was the use of the 'tick mark' to indicate stations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tube_map (1928 words)

	OpinionsTemplate.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thirteen years ago Harry Beck got what every civics book says is the quintessential little guy's win in court.
		The U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark decision authored by the late Justice William Brennan, declared that Harry Beck could not be required to pay into the Communication Workers of America's political funds as a condition of membership in the CWA.
		Thirteen years after Harry Beck supposedly had his day in court, the Labor Department finally has gotten around to rules to enforce the Supreme Court's Beck decision.
	www.oweb.com /advertiser-tribune/Text/Op102901.html (418 words)

	Harry Beck's "Design Classic" of the London Underground Map - Form and Function
		Harry Beck was an electrical draughtsman and produced drawings of electrical circuits; circuits used in the running of the Underground itself but his training had given him knowledge of the symbols and techniques used to depict wiring, diodes, resistors, junctions and valves.
		He obviously knew of the colour coding used on resistors and capacitors and had the considerable draughting skills to produce concise drawings ~ this was after all his job with London Underground, and as he lived and worked in London he had experience of the tube system itself.
		Beck's use of a small number of symbols limited the need for a complex 'key' to the map, allowing the second requirement ~ that of aesthetic appeal to be achieved too.
	www.design-technology.info /alevelsubsite/page6.htm (369 words)

	harry beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Beck served previously as the Managing Director of AdvisorCoach LLC, a consulting and performance analysis firm located in San Francisco, and was a Principal of Presidio Strategies, LLC, a specialty investment bank whose wealth management subsidiary has an average client net worth of $27 million.
		Beck is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research, The Security Analysts of San Francisco, and the Financial Planning Association.
		Beck is a 1977 graduate of Syracuse University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU).
	www.provada.com /harry_beck.htm (151 words)

	Rufus Beck - Harry Potter 'Interview mit Rufus Beck'
		And if my daughter had been a son, I was already writing "Harry Potter" when she was born, she probably would have been Harry and then Harry would have been called something else because it's too cruel to name...
		I have to be careful what I say here because some of my characters aren't too pleasant, but Hermione, who is one of Harry's best friends, she was most consciously based on a real person, and that person was me. She's a caricature of me when I was younger.
		Harry was too real by then for me to try to put him in a dress.
	www.rufusbeck.de /html/potter_cont_interview_lkjkr.htm (2052 words)

	Fire Chief Harry Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chief Beck also serves as chair of the Maricopa Association of Governments, 911 Oversight Committee and is a founding member of both the Arizona Public Safety Communications Committee and the Regional Public Safety Communications Committee.
		Chief Beck holds two degrees from Arizona State University—a master of public administration and a bachelor of science in industrial supervision.
		Chief Beck’s extensive experience includes developing and implementing numerous fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) programs, engaging in resident outreach to ensure needs are being met, responding to thousands of emergencies, and developing innovative methods to address budgetary restrictions and other challenges while maintaining a strong commitment to quality service.
	www.cityofmesa.org /fire/admin/ChiefBeck_page.asp (290 words)

	Sports: The buzz about Beck
		Beck performed mundane tasks, such as the 40-yard dash, in front of a scarlet sea of autograph-seeking fans and a throng of television crews.
		Beck, who finished 15-of-30 for 255 yards, completed five passes and ran twice on the final drive to put the Cougars in position to force overtime.
		Beck's arm impressed so much, he was asked to take part in the invitation-only camp.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/03/Sports/The_buzz_about_Beck.shtml (1410 words)

	History of the London Underground Map
		Ian McLaren had the pleasure to be taught by Harry Beck and has produced an article on what Harry Beck might have thought if he were alive today and could see all the tourist goods which his map has illustrated.
		He concludes: "It is doubtful whether Beck ever imagined that his design would become such an icon of London; or that he would have expected such a dry subject as a public transport route diagram to be the basis of so many witty and commercially successful souvenir products and poster images.
		Given the sense of sheer fun which his design has engendered, and the degree of affection and international respect for it; I cannot believe that despite the vicissitudes of his relationship with London Transport, he would today resent that his ideas have created the means to help preserve the design heritage of London.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/london_underground/75828 (517 words)

	This Labor Day, celebrate the worker, not the union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Beck ultimately prevailed in the 1988 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, CWA v.
		Beck describes himself in his youth as "an avid union man." Returning from duty in the Air Force to his career in telecommunications, Beck "traded [his] M-1 carbine for a picket sign and parades for picket lines."
		We should be grateful for people like Harry Beck who struggled for the rights of individual union workers.
	www.cascadepolicy.org /pdf/labor/beck.htm (609 words)

	History - History of the Tube map - Transport for London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The striking symbol that is recognised across the globe was the brainchild of Underground electrical draughtsman, Harry Beck, who produced this imaginative yet stunningly simple design back in 1933.
		Beck based the map on the circuit diagrams he drew for his day job, stripping the sprawling Tube network down to basics.
		Beck's revolutionary design, with certain modifications and additions, survives to the present day and is set to serve London Underground and its millions of customers for many years to come.
	www.tfl.gov.uk /tube/company/history/tube-map.asp (146 words)

	Internet Information Design - London Underground Map
		Beck was passionate about his map (Garland, 1994), and despite initial rejection, was convinced by friends to continue.
		Beck continued to rework and revise his map as the network grew - despite being paid only 5 guineas ($12) for it - and became obsessed with creating a perfect piece of design.
		Beck's name no longer appears on the bottom of each map produced, despite his importance in its creation.
	members.iinet.net.au /~green2/journal/html/essays/underground2.html (241 words)

	andrew losowsky - Read between the lines
		Harry received 10 guineas (about £400 in today's money) for the design and artwork, but the map did get him another job on the Underground, working on the map as it evolved over the next 20 years.
		Harry Beck, who created the first-ever spoof of his own design for the train staff magazine in Christmas 1933, would probably have approved.
		Above: Harry Beck's original sketch from 1931 for a new, radically redesigned Tube map.
	www.losowsky.com /archives/005921.html (645 words)

	Berkshires Week
		Harry, the cat-in-charge at our house, has his eye on the exploding gallery scene in the Berkshires.
		Harry says that works on paper are his forte.
		Harry is especially useful in my studio and was very industrious in shredding some sketches, just last week, for one of my current projects.
	www.berkshiresweek.com /052704?id=article01 (321 words)

	From omnnibus to ecobus, 1919-1938, 4th page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A solution to the problems of the earlier geographic maps was tackled in 1931 by Harry Beck (1903-1974), a draughtsman who worked for the Underground.
		Beck's map introduced other innovations, such as displaying routes as horizontal, vertical, or 45û diagonal lines in different colours, giving the map a very distinctive appearance.
		Beck's original Underground map is still the basis for the design of today's map.
	www.ltmuseum.co.uk /learning/online_resources/ecobus_omnibus/pg/1919b.htm (1980 words)

	The "Beck" Decision, and How it Affects You
		His request was simple: that the court reaffirm his right to keep his hard earned wages, rather than have them confiscated by union officials and spent to promote a political agenda with which he did not agree.
		Beck's case, the union spent 79 percent of his money for purposes other than ‘normal union duties.' Steve Havas, another union member, sued and got $8,877.48 back in dues that he had paid for years.
		The problem is that the law requires no one to tell the workers that their contributions to political causes are supposed to be voluntary.
	www.cltg.org /cltg/unions/howitaffectsyou.htm (625 words)

	Testimony of Mr. Boehm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Beck that workers covered by the National Labor Relations Act can withhold compulsory dues from a union with the exception of the documented costs of collective bargaining.
		The decision also allowed the union in the case to comply with the Beck requirement of notice to workers of their rights to be satisfied with an annual notice in a union magazine.
		While the best guarantee that Beck rights are honored would involve the codification of those rights into law by Congress, there are some reforms that can be undertaken by the Department of Labor which could incrementally assist in the honoring of those rights.
	www.house.gov /ed_workforce/hearings/107th/wp/beck111401/boehm.htm (3812 words)

	Issue Brief: Should Nevada Adopt a Mini-Beck Decision?
		As Harry Beck points out in a recent Wall Street Journal article, "That’s more than every Republican spent for federal office in the 1994 election and four times the legal budgets of Dole and Clinton combined.
		At that time Harry was an organizer for the Communications Workers of America, another member union of the AFL-CIO.
		Beck, with the assistance of the Washington, DC based National Right To Work Foundation filed a lawsuit - Beck v.
	www.npri.org /issues/issues96/mini-beck.htm (825 words)

	Frank's Case Book
		Beck, however, was displeased that part of his dues were used for union political activities — contributions to candidates and lobbying for legislation.
		In 1988, that court ruled that Beck's First Amendment right to free association precluded the Communications Workers of America from, in effect, compelling Beck to support political activities.
		The decision in Beck versus Communication Workers of America is the law of the land, but Clinton was in no frame of mind to enthusiastically pursue enforcement.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /fmonaldo/articles/beck.htm (676 words)

	Testimony of Ray LaJeunesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Another obstacle to the exercise of Beck rights is the obscure manner in which the courts and NLRB have permitted unions to give employees notice of their rights not to join and not to subsidize union political activity.
		An actress in New York who exercised her Beck rights recently told me that she was unable to audition for a part, because an actors union official present at the audition convinced the other performers present, all of whom were members, not to read with her.
		For example, Beck was in litigation for eleven years, including a 28-day hearing before a special master, before it was decided by the Supreme Court, and even then the case was remanded for further proceedings.
	www.house.gov /ed_workforce/hearings/107th/wp/beck51001/lajeunesse.htm (4117 words)

	Testimony of Harry Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many have contacted me since for advice as on how Beck vs. CWA could be used to assist them.
		Today, there are 300 plus cases before the NLRB (which they refuse to make a decision upon) from California to Boston and Washington to Florida, where the rank and file of powerful self-serving unions are regaining control of their unions by asserting their rights regained under this suit.
		Remember this was the contract year where Mountain Bell received a much improved contract and PNB received a total of 3% over the life of the contract (the last year saw only a raise of ½ of 1%)..
	edworkforce.house.gov /hearings/107th/wp/beck51001/beck.htm (3966 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Life and Times of the London Underground Map
		Harry Beck, the designer of the map in 1933, was only paid five guineas for his original job.
		The map is such a design icon that it has also formed the basis of many posters (mainly commissioned by London Transport), clothing, towels, washbags and a variety of other items.
		Ian McLaren was a former student of Harry Beck and pondered on what Mr Beck might have thought if he were alive today and could see all the tourist goods that have sprung from his map.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A673517 (1241 words)

	Portage County Historical Society Newspaper Announcements
		Kline have three sons, Aloys of Kent, Harry and Edmund of Suffield and three daughters, Mrs.
		Never was there a happier company assembled on a New Years eve to witness and extend congratulations to a newly married couple than were those present at the new and elegant residence of Mr.
		Duane Kent, in Suffield, to witness the marriage of the sister of Mrs.
	www.history.portage.oh.us /clippingsmisc.html (5172 words)

	Designer Trading Cards - Harry Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is quite a lot of material about Harry Beck available on the web.
		Harry Beck was an out-of-work engineering draughtsman when, in 1931, he produced the first sketch for what has become a classic of 20th century design, the London Underground map.
		Beck was not dissuaded, however, and sent it back to them a year later.
	www.designertradingcards.com /harry-beck.htm (363 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)