{"id":6412,"date":"2009-11-28T04:32:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T03:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2009-11-28T04:33:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T03:33:44","slug":"london-underground-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/28\/london-underground-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"London Underground posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltmcollection.org\/posters\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/underground.jpg\" alt=\"underground.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>top left: Power by Edward McKnight Kauffer; top right: Speed Underground by Alan Rogers<br \/>\nbottom left: Which? by Maurice Beck; bottom right: St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral by Robert Sargent Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A small sample of the many great posters commissioned by London Transport during the last century, part of the collection at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltmcollection.org\/posters\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">London Transport Museum<\/a>. These are all from the 1930s. The design and iconography of London&#8217;s Underground system has occupied much of my attention this year due to a substantial book project; more about that later. Meanwhile, Jonathan Glancey was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2009\/nov\/26\/london-tube-map-design\" target=\"_blank\">asking earlier this week<\/a> whether the expansion of the Underground system means the end of Harry Beck&#8217;s classic and much-imitated map design.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/30\/battersea-power-station\/\">Battersea Power Station<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/06\/18\/the-mentor\/\">The Mentor<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/23\/the-art-of-cassandre-1901-1968\/\">The art of Cassandre, 1901\u20131968<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>top left: Power by Edward McKnight Kauffer; top right: Speed Underground by Alan Rogers bottom left: Which? by Maurice Beck; bottom right: St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral by Robert Sargent Austin A small sample of the many great posters commissioned by London Transport during the last century, part of the collection at the London Transport Museum. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/28\/london-underground-posters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;London Underground posters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,48,15],"tags":[834,277,833,832,835,836],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-illustrators","category-technology","tag-alan-rogers","tag-art-deco","tag-edward-mcknight-kauffer","tag-harry-beck","tag-maurice-beck","tag-robert-sargent-austin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}