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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)

Tag: transport design

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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January 19, 2022January 10, 2022

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

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January 5, 2022January 3, 2022

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

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November 3, 2021November 8, 2021

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets

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March 20, 2019March 26, 2019

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

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April 5, 2017April 2, 2017

Roadside Refectories (Cabmen’s Shelters, UK)

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February 8, 2017January 30, 2017

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

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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 23, 2016December 19, 2016

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

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November 16, 2016January 15, 2017

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

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August 3, 2016January 15, 2017

Copper Boxes (Signal Boxes, Basel, Switzerland)

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March 2, 2016March 25, 2016

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: LSWR Boundary Marker

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December 2, 2015November 3, 2015

The Upside Down Airport (London Stansted Airport, UK)

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September 30, 2015January 24, 2016

Alphonse Mucha: Transport Artist for Hire

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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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September 2, 2015August 29, 2015

Baby Brutalism (Concrete bus shelters, Lewis, UK)

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March 11, 2015August 27, 2015

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

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February 18, 2015August 19, 2020

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

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February 11, 2015September 3, 2015

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

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January 7, 2015September 7, 2015

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

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December 3, 2014October 26, 2019

Sign Languages (Transport and Ministry typefaces, UK)

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November 26, 2014December 24, 2015

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

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August 27, 2014October 28, 2015

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

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August 20, 2014March 23, 2020

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

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July 30, 2014October 28, 2015

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

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July 23, 2014December 24, 2015

Smooth Operator (Drassanes metro station, Barcelona, Spain)

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