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The Beauty of Transport

Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Part travelogue, part history, all transport (but sometimes tangentially so)

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December 14, 2022December 15, 2022

In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022)

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May 26, 2021May 25, 2021

The Return of Rail Alphabet (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 2)

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May 19, 2021May 20, 2021

The Way Forward (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 1)

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May 13, 2020May 16, 2020

Braniff International and The End of the Plain Plane

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April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

When 2 Become 1 (Tyne Pedestrian and Cyclist Tunnels, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

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March 11, 2020March 8, 2020

Championing Quality: Network Rail’s New Focus on Architecture and Design (Part 2)

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December 12, 2018December 11, 2018

Redefining a Modern Classic (Railfreight Distribution 1993 Visual Identity)

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July 25, 2018July 25, 2018

White on Black and Read All Over: New York City Subway Signage and Other Design Highlights (New York (NY), USA)

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November 29, 2017November 29, 2017

Red Hot (Virgin Trains East Coast branding 2015 – )

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October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

Parisine: Paris = Johnston: London (Parisine typeface by Jean Francois Porchez)

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October 4, 2017October 2, 2017

Look, Listen, Smell (Deutsche Bahn corporate identity 2004 – )

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September 6, 2017September 5, 2017

Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 2 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – )

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August 30, 2017August 30, 2017

Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 1 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – )

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August 16, 2017August 15, 2017

Crimson Tide (National Express West Midlands visual identity 2015- )

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August 9, 2017August 7, 2017

Britain in the World? No thanks (British Airways’ 1997 corporate identity by Newell and Sorrell)

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July 5, 2017July 4, 2017

The Regrettable Death and Strange Second Life of the Integrated Transport Smartcard

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June 7, 2017May 31, 2017

Turning the Supertanker (RDG’s Britain Runs on Rail campaign)

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April 19, 2017November 3, 2017

M is for… Metro (Calvert typeface and the Nexus Tyne and Wear public transport visual identity)

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March 15, 2017March 15, 2017

Don’t Give in to Their Goodbyes, Northern Stars (PTE mainline rail visual identities 1995-2017)

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March 1, 2017December 1, 2017

Local Heroes (PTE mainline rail visual identities 1970-1994)

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February 1, 2017February 1, 2017

The Dead Hand of State Design (State-sponsored visual identities on Britain’s railways, 2000-)

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November 30, 2016January 15, 2017

The Truth, or Something Beautiful (on the confusion of public transport with tourism, history or character)

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November 2, 2016February 19, 2018

Mainlining Style (Midland Mainline visual identity 1996-2004)

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October 5, 2016February 11, 2017

The Train on Kaleidoscope Lines (British passenger railway post-privatisation visual identities)

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July 13, 2016June 29, 2016

Pump It Up: the Lost Art of Petrol Pump Style (Manor Road Garage, East Preston, UK)

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June 1, 2016February 11, 2017

Flying Bananas: InterCity 125, a Transport Icon

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April 27, 2016April 30, 2016

The Many Murals of the Victoria Line (London, UK)

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