2013-05-09
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Income inequality along the San Francisco KT light rail lines. Can you tell where it goes past the Tenderloin, and where it passes from the rapidly gentrifying Dogpatch waterfront into Bayview?
Then there’s the chart for Caltrain’s local service. That’s a heck of a difference between Redwood City and Atherton.
2013-03-22
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Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon and Clara Wong.
Axonometric maps revealing Hong Kong’s multi-layered elevated walkways, ramps, elevators and infrastructure interchanges. Definitely enbiggen.
(read more on the guardian and randomwire)
I love highwalks and axonometric diagrams, so of course I like this.
2013-03-20
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A press release from Digital Persona, explaining the benefits of the biometric fingerprint scanners they sold to the largest Popeyes franchise in the US.
See also Brands Battle Theft, Buddy-Punching With Biometrics (via).
2013-03-15
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How to use a Dial Telephone, 1951
This is a whitened version of a scan of Bell Telephone’s booklet for schooldchildren, The Telephone And How We Use It.
2012-05-17
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Two photos from the amazing, huge pickmix.co.uk site, collecting photographs from the London Transport Museum’s archive. On the left, in a 1977 colour print by Paul Proctor:
The experimental press-button Passenger Route Indicator machine installed in the ticket hall at Heathrow Central (now Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3) Underground station. The indicator incorporated a TV screen designed to display a diagrammatic route map of the chosen journey.
And to the right, a 1974 photograph by H J Hare & Son:
A passenger consults a route indicator machine at Oxford Circus Underground station. Oxford Circus services Central, Victoria and Bakerloo lines.
You can see more of my favourite images from the site. See also: a similar map in Paris.
2012-03-12
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2012-01-24
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2012-01-17
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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.
