Tag: London
A short history on the London Underground sign: Sixth in a SmartSign blog series on famous signs and their origins
The bar and disc used by Transport for London is quite possibly Britain’s most identifiable transportation symbol, as well as cultural icon. The logo, which was created in 1905, started out as a bar crossing through a wheel, with wings to symbolize the city’s newly motorized buses. Three years later, this was changed to a […]
International artists redesign maps for “Mapping the City” exhibit
What happens when you ask street and graffiti artists to map a city they know intimately through their previous creative endeavors? That’s the question that drove the curators behind Mapping the City, an art exhibit at Somerset House, in London, through February 15. And the answers, as one might guess, are far from conventional. The […]
