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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: signage

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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April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

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

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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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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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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 1, 2017December 1, 2017

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

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April 20, 2016April 18, 2016

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

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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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January 6, 2016January 4, 2016

Travels with my Father (Johnston typeface, Edward Johnston)

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September 16, 2015September 12, 2015

Type in the Fast Lane (FHWA Series typeface, USA)

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May 13, 2015October 26, 2019

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

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December 3, 2014October 26, 2019

Sign Languages (Transport and Ministry typefaces, UK)

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December 4, 2013June 15, 2016

When Two Tiles go to War (Bechmann’s Nord-Sud stations, Paris, France)

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April 17, 2013January 18, 2020

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

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January 2, 2013August 6, 2015

The Font of All Knowledge (Gill Sans and British Railways signage)

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