Project to reprint the National Bus Company’s classic 1972-76 Corporate Identity Manual. Modernism heading up your street.
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It's that time of year again, leaves on the line... 🍂🙄
Well, we're here to tell you: It's Not Just A Leaf!
It's millions of leaves falling onto the tracks which, when crushed under passing trains, can turn into slippery mulch - the black ice of the railway.
But don't worry, we're ready for autumn! Teams across Northern, @TPExpressTrains, @networkrail and wider industry are working together to tackle leaf fall, reduce disruption and keep you moving safely.
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Bumped into some familiar faces at London Waterloo today #NetworkSouthEast 40 years
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Some classic typefaces present a challenge to designers.
Here’s @klimtypefoundry Klim’s new interpretation of Akzidenz Grotesk (Söhne) and my own (FF Real) from a few years ago. Same but different.
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Did enjoy seeing this Midland General Leyland National at the Heritage Bus Rally at Quorn and Woodhouse station on Saturday.
415 - XRB 415L wears the mid-blue version of NBC livery.
@BusManual
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It is shameful that a major world capital city like London that has a pretty comprehensive bus network doesn’t have (even online) a map of that system!
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Another fab issue of this gorgeous, informative, entertaining, beautiful, engaging, lovingly designed and produced, top quality, stunningly illustrated, can’t-live-without magazine. Out now classicbusmag.co.uk
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1977 convertible open-top ECW-bodied Bristol VRT VDV 138S 'Warspite' is seen at the Strand in Torquay in 1981. From 1987, under Devon General Ltd. ownership, it ran with the name 'Illustrious'. 938 is preserved, and its current owner is renovating it.
Picture credit: Paul Jenkins
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For goodness' sake @NorfolkCC - yr process is clearly broken when 2,000 ppl tell you that they want to keep a building, which can obv be made fit for the future. Demolition and replacement is the least green or wanted route. @SAVEtoReuse you tell 'em...🙄 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrn…
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A fantastic evening in Manchester talking about graphic design and transport at @modernistmag x @bdp_com along with @_doublearrow, whose new book ‘Arrows of desire’ is superb. Thanks @just_some_fella and friends for organising it.
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NBC chair Fred Wood meets drivers Ray Faulkner (United Counties) and George Aitken (Yorkshire Traction) at the General Managers’ conference in Leicester, Oct 1972. They’d brought vehicles to display in the new identity. More on the blog -> nationalbusmanual.com/2022/0…
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Leaf green - but which leaf? (Spoiler: none of these is right!)
More from my experiments with matching shades of green to both the NBC spec from the Corporate Identity Manual, paint codes, NBC printed diagrams and the shades we know from photographs.
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Sincere thanks to Ipswich Transport Museum’s Mark Smith for showing me around, and for a close look at their immaculately preserved Lodekka LFS 125, in perfect NBC poppy red.
#IpswichTransportMuseum #easterncountiesomnibuscompany #NationalBusCompany #FuturaTypeface
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Was happy to get a few shots of the two Devon General buses together at the Kingsbridge vintage bus day on Saturday.
Looking great in their NBC era liveries. ❤❤
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The sun’s turning up the heat today - so here’s a 1973 graphic used to advertise NBC’s holidays abroad by coach (this is from Midland Red’s edition). It demonstrates Norman Wilson’s ‘N-and-shadow’ really well, in the summer sun.
#nationalbuscompany #normanwilsondesigner
