Wednesday 16 October 2013

COP3//INITIAL MEANS OF RESEARCH//OUGD601

INITIAL MEANS OF RESEARCH
After constructing a few questions about what I specifically want to research and what areas of my topic I feel will benefit my practice I have compiled a list of possible books and sources that could be used to further my knowledge:


BOOKS:
  • London Underground by design - By Mark Ovenden 
  • Frank Pick's London: Art, design and the modern city - By Oliver Green
  • Designed for London: 150 years of transport design - By Oliver Green
  • Underground: How the tube shaped London - By Oliver Green
  • London Underground: Architecture, Design and History - By David Long
  • The Tube: station to station on the London Underground - By Oliver Green
DOCUMENTARIES:
  • The Tube: An underground History / BBC 2
  • London Underground revealed / National Geographic channel 
  • The London Underground: 150 years of re-designing London - Oliver Green

TALKS/EXHIBITIONS/MUSEUM:
  • Transport for London Museum
  • TFL: Poster Art 150 - London Undergrounds Greatest Designs Exhibition 
  • Talk: Frank Pick's London
Primary:
  • Documenting station design by photographing individual stations 
  • Surveys and questionnaires
MORE POSSIBLE MEANS OF RESEARCH:
  • Christian Barman, The Man Who Built London Trasnport – A Biography of Frank Pick, David & Charles, 1979
  • James Laver, Art For All: The Story of London Transport Posters, Shenval Press, 1949
  • Nikolaus Pevsner, Frank Pick, Studies in Art, Architecture and Design, Vol 2: Victorian and After, Thames & Hudson, 1968
  • T. C. Barker and Michael Robbins, A History of London Transport, Vol 2: The Twentieth Century to 1970, Allen and Unwin, 1974
  • Laurence Menear, London’s Underground Stations, Midas Books, 1983
  • Oliver Green, Underground Art, Studio Vista, 1989
  • Ken Garland, Mr Beck’s Underground Map, Capital Transport Publishing, 1994

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