2012-05-17
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photo 18:26:06
Don’t go where I can’t see you by Jeremy Wood:
GPS flight tracks with section of the River Thames in London
1:500 000 Scale, 100 km Grid
Indirectly via prosthetic knowledge. I also noticed his earlier My Ghost in Claire Dobbin’s new book, London Underground Maps, which seems to have some overlap with the previous three Capital Transport books on the map (which I should probably write about), but which also covers some new territory. I may have to buy it.
2010-12-01
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video 22:12:29
Snow blankets Gatwick (although the adjective “thick” seems inadvised, but still). Surprisingly pretty, but no doubt incredibly annoying if you’re actually expecting to get anywhere.
2010-06-25
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quote 15:14:49
“ The point of Helvetica is that it is neutral. It is extremely legible. It is not subject to cultural bias, regional variation, and the vicissitudes of fashion and corporate identity. It is designed, painstakingly designed, to create standardised signage. Standardisation might not be exactly sexy but it is extremely useful if you want to avoid the world being a confusing racket. “Uncompromising”, damn right it is. It is also international, part of the global language of airports, flight, travel - exactly the kind of spirit that this cloth-eared rebranding exercise apparently wants to tap into. ”
Will Wiles, in Air Rage, on Gatwick’s rebranding. He’s right: this is awful. The whole piece is worth a read.
