It’s only fair to quip at a Tube of spaghetti

How do you improve on a design classic? Not very easily, if an attempt by Quip – the low-cost, Web-based telephone company part owned by BT- is anything to go by.

As part of the company’s marketing offensive, Quip has been distributing booklets displaying its “great value” call charges, complete with a “quick-map”

London Tube and train guide showing how to traverse the capital.

But unlike Harry Beck’s fêted Tube design, Quip’s looks more like a plate of spaghetti.

Could you find your way from Waterloo to Highbury & Islington using this?

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