fintan-gilbert:

Today I went and got my poster printed. Pretty happy with the outcome.

Bring on that capped re-sit grade pass.

Lovely work.

(via typographie)

Top Gear is religion in my family.  Tonight however, I was very impressed with the part on Margaret Calvert - the woman who alongside 4 others, redesigned Britain’s road signs.

She standardised imagery, redesigned the typefaces, pictograms and colourways to make them easy to understand when passing at high speeds. A rather mammoth task I think.  She went on to design typefaces especially for the british railway system.

I have always wondered who designed road signage, often another one of those instances where we take design for granted.

Margaret Calvert — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Calvert
UK Road signage — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_the_United_Kingdom
Rail alphabet — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Alphabet
Transport typeface — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_typeface

Top Gear Season 14, episode 7.  Did anyone else catch it?