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Project to reprint the National Bus Company’s classic 1972-76 Corporate Identity Manual. Modernism heading up your street.
Joined May 2020
Out now: @modernistmag 44 with a piece on graphic designer Norman Wilson. His pioneering Manchester practice brought striking modernist graphics to industial Britain, famously the once-ubiquitous corporate identity for the National Bus Company. More here:
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RT @ovsbulleid: Southern Vectis dual purpose Bristol LH, originally with Timpsons (National Travel SE). White radiator not entirely consi….
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RT @ovsbulleid: Hants & Dorset ex King Alfred Leyland Panther UOU418H on an early King Alfred Memorial Tour in Winchester. Sister vehicles….
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RT @TyneFlashback: 1975: One of the 1964 built Routemasters operating for Northern General is pictured crossing the Tyne Bridge. This one d….
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RT @TyneFlashback: 1976: Marlborough Crescent Bus Station, #Newcastle upon Tyne . 📸 Trevor Ermel
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RT @ovsbulleid: Aldershot bus station. A sea of NBC @BusManual Poppy Red. A Dennis Loline, Nationals and a dual door RE hidden behind the….
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Sincere thanks to Ipswich Transport Museum’s Mark Smith for showing me around, and for a close look at their immaculately preserved Lodekka LFS 125, in perfect NBC poppy red. #IpswichTransportMuseum #easterncountiesomnibuscompany #NationalBusCompany #FuturaTypeface
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RT @BusManual: The sun’s turning up the heat today - so here’s a 1973 graphic used to advertise NBC’s holidays abroad by coach (this is fro….
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RT @Ste_Jones75: @BusManual Saw this example on the back of a Bristol RE at the Bournemouth bus rally.
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PS - this goes against all of the manual rules on the use of the symbol - it should always appear against a clear white background if in colour, or a single colour if using the monochrome version. Don’t say I didn’t warn you….
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The sun’s turning up the heat today - so here’s a 1973 graphic used to advertise NBC’s holidays abroad by coach (this is from Midland Red’s edition). It demonstrates Norman Wilson’s ‘N-and-shadow’ really well, in the summer sun. #nationalbuscompany #normanwilsondesigner
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Leaf green - but which leaf? (Spoiler: none of these is right!) . More from my experiments with matching shades of green to both the NBC spec from the Corporate Identity Manual, paint codes, NBC printed diagrams and the shades we know from photographs.
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RT @Ste_Jones75: In NBC poppy red livery. National Welsh, Leyland National 2, NS492 - BUH 240V and Leyland Olympian/ECW, HR8215 - MUH 289X….
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RT @MarcJF241: My ride back from Bakewell to Rowsley yesterday afternoon was on preserved Trent Bristol RE / ECW, 274 - TCH 274L whilst at….
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