By Ana Bogdan / The Talks
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"You know, I was born in the late forties and grew up in the fifties, and there were very few cars around in my childhood. In our neighborhood, if one man had a car back then, we would run after his car! (Laughs) That’s one reason why I like riding a bike, so I'm a little above the cars and can actually see the streets. Hopefully the pop-up bicycle lanes will remain permanent in some parts of the city, now that people are beginning to realize that pedestrian streets are actually great."
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"if you look at the Berlin transport map now, there's five parallel lines going from the Westkreuz in the far west, all the way to Ostkreuz, in the far east. In information design, you would rather have one line and give it five names — you wouldn't need five lines because as a graphic device, that’s over-information. But since this was a political device, we deliberately decided to leave those lines because it was symbolic of the city coming together. And then, the main thing that I give myself most credit for, was making everything yellow, which of course became the Berlin color."
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