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The London Underground map has been beaten into second place in the Great British Design Quest by the Concorde. Oh well. No doubt the London Underground Tube Diary Blog (bit slow without broadband) will have more on this story shortly.
Meanwhile London Underground has set its lawyers on UK blogger Geofftech for unauthorised use of the Tube map.
Posted by Dave at 11:49 pm on March 16, 2006 and filed under Design, Transport.
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Christian Aid has a new logo. It was designed by Johnson Banks, who, as an aside, have a great website. It uses Flash or something I think so may not work if your computer is old and rubbish. I particularly like the ‘work tree’ section showing projects they have done over the years. You will like it if graphic design is your thing.
Hopefully the new ‘envelope’ label will be good for Christian Aid. I think it will, though on one poster I had through the post they were relying on the shape and style of the logo alone rather than having ‘Christian Aid’ on it, which I think is a mistake. Call me old fashioned, but putting the name on everything you do is a good idea.
I think I need a new logo. Or in fact a logo, full stop. The problem is that cartoons, whilst good for some things are often not great for logos. But then a stylish logo in a modern font may not get across what I am about. At the moment I just use CartoonChurch.com in Arial Black for most things as Arial Black is the boldest typeface one gets as a default in web browsers and things. But something more visual would be good.
Sorry if I’m rambling a bit. I blame my teeth.
Update: Favicon made into a logo.
Not that good really, but it was worth trying.
Posted by Dave at 7:26 pm on March 15, 2006 and filed under Art, Design, Make Poverty History.
The Great British Design Quest (which I posted about a while back) is now down to the final 3. The Anglepoise Lamp, the Aston Martin DB5, the British road and motorway signage system, the Catseye, the Dr Martens boot, the Dyson vacuum cleaner, the E-Type Jaguar, the Grand Theft Auto video game, the K2 phone kiosk, the London A-Z Street Atlas, the Mini, the Mini skirt, the Penguin paperback book, Power, Corruption and Lies, the Raleigh Chopper, the Routemaster bus, the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, the Sinclair Executive Electronic Calculator, The Face magazine, Tomb Raider, the Verdana typeface and the World Wide Web have now all been eliminated, so it’s down to the Concorde, the Spitfire and the Underground map.
The Underground map quite clearly deserves your vote because it doesn’t have wings. You can vote here.
Update: Kristen has posted some underground map-related links.
Posted by Dave at 12:21 pm on March 9, 2006 and filed under Art, Design.
A few of our Wibloggers have been linking to the Great British Design Quest. The top 5 have got to be (in my opinion):
It seems I have a tendency to like London-orientated transport-related street furniture. I haven’t decided which of these to vote for yet.
So, what’s your choice for the Great British Design Quest?
Posted by Dave at 12:04 pm on February 3, 2006 and filed under Art, Design.
