2012-01-24
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2012-01-17
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![british rail design cover by smallritual on Flickr:
The [Danish] design of this book looks like 2006, in British terms, rather than 1986. the 1980s were not a good period for swiss-style modernism in Britain. The book celebrates the British Rail corporate identity at a time when it seemed outdated in Britain - a case of ‘you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone’. The British have never been very good at sticking to rational design systems - they get distracted by romanticism and nostalgia.
(Edited for capitalisation.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxx30heIzF1qz4vjro1_500.jpg)
british rail design cover by smallritual on Flickr:
The [Danish] design of this book looks like 2006, in British terms, rather than 1986. the 1980s were not a good period for swiss-style modernism in Britain. The book celebrates the British Rail corporate identity at a time when it seemed outdated in Britain - a case of ‘you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone’. The British have never been very good at sticking to rational design systems - they get distracted by romanticism and nostalgia.
(Edited for capitalisation.)
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station timetable by smallritual on Flickr.
Steve Collins (who goes by smallritual online) has been posting scans of the nearly impossible to find Danish Design Council book on British Rail’s design and identity. As he writes of the pocket timetables, “In a sense, the invisibility of this kind of design is the point.” Certainly I look at that now as almost a work of art, whereas for most of my life it was just background.
2012-01-16
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New refreshed g2. Carey Mulligan shot by Linda Nylind
The cover picture of the story I quoted earlier. Also, a new design for G2 to go with the reworked front page guidelines.
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guardianFront by magCulture on Flickr.
I’m hardly the first person to remark on the Guardian’s front cover reworking, or the amusing juxtaposition (someone give those editors a bonus), but I thought I’d like to record it anyway.
2012-01-07
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stml:
The red structure is the remains of the original Greathead shield used to tunnel the Waterloo & City. It was left in place in 1898 and rediscovered in 1987.
Nice tube geekery there.
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One of the classic British graphic identities (and there are many).
(via hammerandcode)
2012-01-05
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The animated GIF on the landing page to the late ’90s site about Direct Debit, as seen on web.archive.org. It’s worth clicking through to the insanity within. via yoz and kevinmarks.
