Category : photography

08 May

British Rail Design Book

by Spooner

British Rail Design Book

Some photos of selected pages of a British Rail Design Book from 1986 by the Danish Design Council by James Cousins. Links to large versions of each image in the thumbnails at the bottom of this post. Includes Way finding for food. Or, check the whole British Rail Design Book set on Flickr. British Rail [...]

Filed Under: Featured, photography

28 Feb

Help me Obiwan, you’re my only hope – The Holoflector

by Spooner

Holoflector

Those clever chaps over at Microsoft Research have too much time on their hands. This augmented reality mirror and LCD screen work together to give us that Star Wars holographic projection experience we’ve been wishing to experience since we first saw it in 1977. The integration of another device, in this case a Windows Phone, [...]

09 Nov

Sound and Sound Reproduction: a conversation with Gareth Jones

by Spooner

Gareth Jones

Mobile audio is difficult. Mobile audio has historically been painfully implemented. In this short film, record producer Gareth Jones talks about how he hears the world, the loudness war and offers up some advice on how to produce sounds that work well on small speakers of the kind we have in modern mobile phones. Posted [...]

Filed Under: Design, photography

09 Nov

Navigation with way-finding graphics: a conversation with Tony Howard

by Spooner

Airport Baggage Signage

Metro is hugely inspired by the way-finding graphics that guide us round airports and railway stations. For this short film, I approached Tony Howard, the Managing Director of the London based Transport Design Consultancy to discuss his approach to way-finding signage. Having previously worked as Head of Design at British Rail, more recent projects include [...]

Filed Under: Design, photography