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[Tube sign] Westminster.
- Author: [LONDON TRANSPORT]
- Publication place: [London,
- Publisher: London Transport,
- Publication date: 1908-1915]
- Physical description: Enamel tube sign, with wooden frame.
- Dimensions: 1030 by 1550mm (40.5 by 61 inches).
- Inventory reference: 19461
Notes
Rare pre-First World War station sign for Westminster tube station.
This large enamel sign can be dated to between 1908 to 1915, when the bull’s-eye design, a solid red disk, with a horizontal bar containing the text, was adopted by all the various separate underground railway companies. It would be the first time that a coherent graphic design was adopted for the whole of the disparately owned and run network.
The bull’s-eye design would be superseded when, in 1915, the then Underground’s publicity manager, Frank Pick, commissioned the calligrapher Edward Johnston to design a company typeface. His subsequent design: the red circle and blue bar. It is still in use to this day, and has rightly become synonymous with London and its famous transport system.
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