Inspiration – London Transport Museum

Been meaning to post this for quite a while,  ive been thinking of ways to get inspiration for my work from sources other than looking at websites and reading design blogs.

So i thought i would visit somewhere in the capital city that could maybe provide some of that inspiration,  i decided upon the London Transport Museum as it’s always looked interesting whenever ive been around Covent Garden.

I found it to be a very interesting and worthwhile visit, the place was full of fascinating imagery and artefacts documenting how the city of London has gradually become the huge great mass of networks,roads,tubes,rivers that it is today.

Particularly interesting to me were some of the signs and posters from the early 20th century, i love the old fashioned typography and hand made artwork. A refreshing change from the Photoshop world we live in today, take a look at some of the photos i took ( on my phone so quality isnt that brilliant!)

Mark Crossley

During the summer i was contacted by Mark Crossley, ex station manager of Fly FM and current Trent FM radio presenter, to build a website for him that could showcase his radio demos and provide him with a blog. I took on the project and quickly designed a holding page that would alert users to the fact the full site was under construction whilst still allowing them to hear a few of Mark’s demos.

The holding page looked like this…

This page was a fairly straightforward job, i created a nice textured background in photoshop and designed a collage style image for the header which i think work really well together.

The next step was to begin creating the full site, which i will update you on in my next post…