Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Droz lay-out is being sold this week. I’ve written about it before, here http://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/04/22/clockwork-railway-world/ Here is the catalogue description The Model Railway System of Josué Droz, 1925-35 Completely made by hand: An absolutely unique masterpiece of Swiss precision engineering. … Continue reading →

This is a post about model railways… I’ve been there before, but what the heck. The history of model railways is almost as old as the railway itself. At first, the model railway was a miniature engineered model. This was … Continue reading →

I read something interesting about the Greek crisis this week. You can read it, here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18032721 Someone has said that it would be cheaper if everyone in Greece used taxis! That’s really a comment about the huge costs, to the … Continue reading →

I was invited to give a lecture to all graphic students at CSM. I showed slides and spoke about the concept of safety in modern society and how this had come about as a consequence of the conjunctions of democracy … Continue reading →

This is a post about graphic communication. The poster image, Transport, above, is by Gustav Klutsis (1895-1938) and dates from 1929. There are a number of things to say about it… You can tell from the red star that the … Continue reading →