London Transport Posters That Made the City Look Different
Uxbridge | Charles Paine, 1921
A school of bright fish cuts across blue water, giving an outer-London destination an image based on movement and escape. Charles Paine uses repetition without making the fish identical: small variations keep the diagonal stream alive. The large place name anchors a scene that might otherwise feel almost abstract. Issued in 1921, the poster suggests that the transport network can carry passengers from workaday routines towards a landscape with a different tempo, not merely extend the city further out.
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