Railroad: Identity, Design and Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847827194 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Great idea, poorly executed. Evan4re Speaking as a Brand Planner for a big ad agency and a huge railroad buff since birth I was dissapointed at the lack of depth in the book.It has a lot of great photos, some you may have seen before if you are a train buff, some you may have not. Not a whole lot more than that.By the description of the book, I was looking for someone to illustrate what great brands railroads once were. How a railroads like the Southern Pacific, Rio Grande. Rutilo Rojas Osornio said A must for industrial designers. Second in a series of design books, Keith Lovegrove gives a general view of the railroad world and its evolution through time. Wonderfull pictures and text, though I would like to see more about modern design. Great book.
Keith Lovegrove is a designer and has written the highly successful Airline: Identity, Design and Culture. He founded Lovegrove Design Consultancy in London in 1985 and has worked on a wide range of projects from corporate literature to environmental graphics. . He has been awarded the PPA Magazine Designer of the Year Award for Photography magazine
All rights reserved. Focusing primarily on European, American and Japanese railways, the book features discussions of topics such as the nose design of modern high speed trains and the logo for Amtrak's Acela service, and includes photos of Japanese train washrooms, cramped kitchen staff on the Union Pacific, and the uniforms of Japanese and Belgian railway employees. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Though the writing is occasionally dry, and more mentions of non-Western railway systems would be welcome-India has one of the world's largest railroad systems but it merits only a paragraph here-Lovegrove provides a comprehensive look at train design that's sure to appeal to train enthusiasts. With an abundance of color photographs and inform
With hundreds of archival and contemporary photographs, it examines the glamorous early days, when train travel meant sumptuous, luxurious interiors with formal black-tie dining cars and private sleeping-suite cabins, up to the present with the sleek, streamlined design and record-breaking speeds of modern trains around the globe. As both harbinger of modern engineering and nostalgic symbol of an earlier age, the railroad continues to exert a fascination over all those interested in travel, engineering, and design. Railroad is a stylish trip down memory lane, paying whimsical tribute to our earliest modern form of transportation and examining how design continues to shape and reflect transportation.. Celebrating the culture and design of the railroad from its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution through its 20th-century heyday, Railroad is a loving tribute to the unique aesthetic of trains. Touching on every aspect of railroad design, from the interiors and exteriors of the trains, to railroad stations, signage, and trestles and tunnels, Railroad also abounds in such train eph