
Tag: transport design


A Fearsome Beauty (Cambridge North station, Cambridgeshire, UK)

A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK)

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets

We Live and Die by Pretty Lies (Lost Beauties of Rail, Road and Air)

Roadside Refectories (Cabmen’s Shelters, UK)

Shaft! 8 – Shaft on the Tyne is All Mine (Tyne Tunnel ventilation shaft buildings)

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

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

Mr Carden’s Home for Peculiar Transport (Patcham Pylons, Brighton, UK)

Beautiful Nightmare (Santa Maria Novella station, Florence, Italy)

Copper Boxes (Signal Boxes, Basel, Switzerland)

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: LSWR Boundary Marker

The Upside Down Airport (London Stansted Airport, UK)

Alphonse Mucha: Transport Artist for Hire

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

Baby Brutalism (Concrete bus shelters, Lewis, UK)

The Gleaming Spire (Silica, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK)

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

The Great Hall of Aluminum Wonders (Newark Penn Station, New Jersey, USA)

Country Strong, part 1 (the London Country Bus garages of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, UK)

Sign Languages (Transport and Ministry typefaces, UK)

Standing on the Platform and Looking Up at the Waves (Toledo metro station, Naples, Italy)

Grand Design (Grand Canyon railroad depot, Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)

Tipping the Wink (Gateshead Millennium Bridge a.k.a the Winking Eye Bridge, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK)

Treasures in the Park (bus shelters, Yosemite National Park (CA), USA)
