Friday 27 December 2013

COP3//CASE STUDY:LOOKING AT OFFICIAL LONDON UNDERGROUND MERCHANDISE//OUGD601

RESEARCHING THE IMPACT OF THE LONDON UNDERGROUND DESIGN:
merchandise
I have been going around taking photographs of official merchandise that is sold in various shops across London.  The design and imagery of the London Undergrounds seems to be successful in the capital with popular high street shops such as Paperchase selling a wide range of London Underground merchandise from Umbrellas to mugs to phone cases.

MERCHANDISE FROM THE TRANSPORT FOR LONDON MUSEUM SHOP
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The London Transport Museum shop has a wide range of posters, clothes, toys and chic homeware available online at ltmusemshop.co.uk or in Covent Garden.

Transport for London and London Transport Museum, two of London’s most vibrant commercial websites, have merged to offer a wide variety of unique and stylish commissioned, exclusive and print to order products inspired by London’s transport and social history past and present.

Among the shop’s most popular items are iconic posters spanning a century of transport design, including art deco classics of the 1930s. London Transport Museum has one of the finest poster archives in the world with over 5,000 posters and 700 original poster artworks. Many of these London Underground posters by world famous artists and designers are available to buy online as a photographic reproduction in a range of sizes.

EXAMPLES OF MERCHANDISE
These are examples of merchandise in the Transport for London museum shop.  As well as using the obvious, recognisable, clean cut modern branding of the map and the logo they have also used the successful and traditional designs of the posters that were so popular at the time and still are now.

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