Travel by Tube
Which actually, I didn’t on this trip to London, preferring to use my free bus pass and enjoy the superior views. But the special poster exhibition at the London Transport Museum (extremely well refurbished since I was there last) was a nostalgic joy. The history of the use of imaginative posters to encourage travel by train, tube and bus was laid out, with useful discussion on technique. Some less successful were included – they weren’t all crowd pullers but their range and variety was quite astonishing, even to someone like me who had been used to seeing them on subway walls. Most of the artists had got the message to keep it simple – not a lot of text, but a simple few word text. Eternally grateful to Frank Pick who commissioned all the early works especially for LT