Harry Beck version of the London Underground diagram. In March 2013 a blue plaque was unveiled on the house where Beck was born, in Wesley Road in Leyton, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Tube map. GB Railfreight named locomotive 66721 after Beck in January 2007. Beck's idea has been emulated by subway, bus and transit companies around the world and many urban rail and metro maps use his principles. He was featured on a BBC2 series called "Map Man" in 2004. Harry Beck Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974), known as Harry Beck, was an English
Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture well represented in other collections. Silver Studio designs found their way into many British homes over a long period, because most of its clients were mass producers. The significance of the Silver Studio as a design practice was acknowledged in 1981 with the awarding of an English Heritage blue plaque to 84 Brook Green, Hammersmith, the building that was both the Studio and the Silver family home. This material was the working collection of designer and typographer, Charles Hasler (1908-1992). Hasler played a significant role in many high-profile exhibitions, displays, poster campaigns and book publishing in Britain from the mid-1930s