Proposal

-->I decided to look into Transport and how it works, as I wanted to create something similar, and like to watch trains and buses in all kinds of liveries.Whilst researching Transport, I decided to look into liveries. At first, I came up with the obvious: Trains, buses, ships, racing cars. Using this, I looked further, and came up with the common types of buses that operate in a town, vital operation notice: the map, liveries of racing cars and such: manufacturers, the tram (associated with the train and bus), the taxi. I then looked into the rail network itself, and came up with the rail operator’s livery, or brand. Moving further to artistic, this revealed the circus, and fairground, as well as canal boats. Although this is a personal interest of mine, it was advised and I agreed that there wouldn’t be enough content to warrant a year long project on this subject. 

My next idea was to look at Travel Posters, mostly train based, about pre 60’s era, very bold colours and typefaces, and simple. My initial research lead me to: AM Cassandre, Edward Kauffer, and Tom Purvis.

AM Cassandre designed a lot of L.N.E.R posters, and a few L.M.S posters, while Edward Kauffer created the London Tube Logo, and used a lot of circular references on posters and the logo, to symbolise the clock, meaning train running time and accessibility, as well as frequent service. Whilst researching Edward, I stumbled upon Harry Beck, who designed the London Underground map. Tom Purvis was also a name that cropped up in a book entitled “Retro Graphics” and was written by Jonathan Raimes, and Lakshmi Bhaskaran. Tom Purvis also designed a lot of posters for L.N.E.R.

What I intend to do is create a train travelling poster advertising a fiction train company “Gaynes Bridge Locomotion Services”. What will be on this poster is a fictionally constructed bridge over water, with countryside houses, and a small steam train with approximately four wagons mid-way over the bridge. I will also furtherly research the artists behind these works, and look at their processes and histories.

Brainstorming