2011-02-28
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photo 18:16:38
London Airport Lettering typeface by Matthew Carter/Frederick Gibberd, 1961
And here was me thinking it was Akzidenz-Grotesk
It’s nice, though, isn’t it?
2010-10-16
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photo 01:23:00
The Queen’s Building, Heathrow, by Gordon Cullen (detail)
There’s a lovely set full of scans of the then London Airport over on Flickr. Well worth a look. (This building, which turned into Terminal 2, is, I believe, either currently being demolished, or demolished entirely.)
