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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)

Category: branding

April 20, 2016April 18, 2016

Transport Adventures in Hong Kong (Airport Express corporate identity development 1993-98)

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April 13, 2016April 18, 2016

Fly the Formal Skies (BOAC corporate identity 1946-1974)

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March 30, 2016January 23, 2017

The Underground World of Norman Foster (Metro Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain)

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March 9, 2016May 21, 2016

Flying the Flag (beautiful, and not-so-beautiful, British bus stop flags)

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February 24, 2016February 7, 2016

Parasol Paraíso (Repsol filling stations, Spain and Portugal)

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January 6, 2016January 4, 2016

Travels with my Father (Johnston typeface, Edward Johnston)

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December 23, 2015February 11, 2016

The Fe-Line (Nishi station, Japan)

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December 9, 2015August 30, 2017

The Rolling Art Galleries of Network SouthEast (Edward Pond murals and NSE route badges)

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September 9, 2015June 13, 2020

Three Shades of Grey (Railfreight 1987 corporate identity, Roundel Design Group, UK)

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August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

Papering Over the Cracks (Railtrack’s Corporate Graphic Design and Annual Reports, UK)

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May 13, 2015October 26, 2019

On Line Typeface (Rail Alphabet typeface, Margaret Calvert/Jock Kinneir, UK)

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March 25, 2015August 28, 2015

The Decline and Fall of the Rail Blue Empire (British Railways’ corporate identity 1964-1986, part 2)

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March 18, 2015August 27, 2015

The Full XP (British Railways’ Corporate Identity 1964-1986, part 1)

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February 18, 2015August 19, 2020

Lions and Wheels (British Railways’ lion emblems, 1949-1964)

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May 14, 2014December 24, 2015

Along the Line, Blue and Gold (GNER’s corporate visual identity, Vignelli Associates, 1997)

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January 29, 2014June 4, 2016

Material of Memory (transport moquettes of Britain)

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September 18, 2013August 13, 2015

Map Me Gorgeous (Bus and Train Maps, Best Impressions, UK)

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August 21, 2013August 13, 2015

Spin me Right Round (Red Hill filling station, Leicestershire, UK)

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April 17, 2013January 18, 2020

Virtuous Circles (Railtrack major station graphic identities, Lloyd Northover, UK)

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