December 14, 2022December 15, 2022 In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022) Continue reading →
May 26, 2021May 25, 2021 The Return of Rail Alphabet (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 2) Continue reading →
May 19, 2021May 20, 2021 The Way Forward (Network Rail Wayfinding Signage and Rail Alphabet 2, part 1) Continue reading →
April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 When 2 Become 1 (Tyne Pedestrian and Cyclist Tunnels, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) Continue reading →
March 11, 2020March 8, 2020 Championing Quality: Network Rail’s New Focus on Architecture and Design (Part 2) Continue reading →
December 12, 2018December 11, 2018 Redefining a Modern Classic (Railfreight Distribution 1993 Visual Identity) Continue reading →
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) Continue reading →
November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 Red Hot (Virgin Trains East Coast branding 2015 – ) Continue reading →
October 18, 2017October 18, 2017 Parisine: Paris = Johnston: London (Parisine typeface by Jean Francois Porchez) Continue reading →
October 4, 2017October 2, 2017 Look, Listen, Smell (Deutsche Bahn corporate identity 2004 – ) Continue reading →
September 6, 2017September 5, 2017 Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 2 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – ) Continue reading →
August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 Corporatisation, and its Undoing, Part 1 (Visual Identities of Britain’s ‘Big Five’ Transport Operators on the railway, 1997 – ) Continue reading →
August 16, 2017August 15, 2017 Crimson Tide (National Express West Midlands visual identity 2015- ) Continue reading →
August 9, 2017August 7, 2017 Britain in the World? No thanks (British Airways’ 1997 corporate identity by Newell and Sorrell) Continue reading →
July 5, 2017July 4, 2017 The Regrettable Death and Strange Second Life of the Integrated Transport Smartcard Continue reading →
April 19, 2017November 3, 2017 M is for… Metro (Calvert typeface and the Nexus Tyne and Wear public transport visual identity) Continue reading →
March 15, 2017March 15, 2017 Don’t Give in to Their Goodbyes, Northern Stars (PTE mainline rail visual identities 1995-2017) Continue reading →
March 1, 2017December 1, 2017 Local Heroes (PTE mainline rail visual identities 1970-1994) Continue reading →
February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 The Dead Hand of State Design (State-sponsored visual identities on Britain’s railways, 2000-) Continue reading →
November 30, 2016January 15, 2017 The Truth, or Something Beautiful (on the confusion of public transport with tourism, history or character) Continue reading →
November 2, 2016February 19, 2018 Mainlining Style (Midland Mainline visual identity 1996-2004) Continue reading →
October 5, 2016February 11, 2017 The Train on Kaleidoscope Lines (British passenger railway post-privatisation visual identities) Continue reading →
April 20, 2016April 18, 2016 Transport Adventures in Hong Kong (Airport Express corporate identity development 1993-98) Continue reading →
April 13, 2016April 18, 2016 Fly the Formal Skies (BOAC corporate identity 1946-1974) Continue reading →