About Metro Card Collages

As the name suggest, metro card collages are made from cut up pieces of used and expired MetroCards® – New York City subway tickets. All artworks are one-of-a-kind and vary in size from 5"x7" to 40"x30". A single collage can contain up to 5,000 pieces of cut-up MetroCards.Nina Boesch uses the front of MetroCards for color collages (yellow, orange, blue and black), and the back for grayscale collages (black and white). The collages depict anything from landmarks and objects to portraits and typography, and are almost always New York related. If you are interested in a custom collage, please don't hesitate to contact Nina and ask her to create one for you! Yes, she does create custom artworks.
About Nina Boesch
Nina Boesch is a New York based interaction designer and artist from Germany. She graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design and is an interaction designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, an exhibit design firm located in Lower Manhattan.
Nina has been creating collages from MetroCards for over 10 years – initially just for friends and family, and recently for a broader audience with exhibits in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Laguna Beach, California. While Nina sells her collages in New York only, some of her pieces have found new homes as far away as Scotland, France and Australia.
Selected press

Huffington Post
Aug 3, 2012
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NY Times
Dec 10, 2012
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Daily News
Aug 6, 2012
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Bowery Boogie
July 26, 2012
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Atlantic Cities
Sep 7, 2012
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Apartment Therapy
June 19, 2012
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Business Insider
Aug 5, 2012
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Design Taxi
Jun 25, 2012
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Visually
Dec, 2012
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Visual News
Aug 9, 2012
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News Australia
Aug 27, 2012
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Telegraph (UK)
August, 2012
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Mirror (UK)
Aug 14, 2012
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BBC Brasil
Dec 11, 2012
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Irish Examiner (Ireland)
Sep 11, 2012
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Smart (Germany)
October, 2012
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Surexposer (France)
January, 2013
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Casa Brutus (Japan)
February, 2013
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