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Ryan
Ryan
@ryanbate.bsky.social
i write about information design, human factors and how real people interact with the systems that make up our world: nowletsbeclear.substack.com
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fascinated by how the coastline around hartlepool has been represented
There is something very graphically 'clean' about the then generic graphic design of the British Rail timetables; Eastern Region & the design is displaying the influence of the 1965 British Rail design manual. @doublearrow64.bsky.social #rail #graphicdesign #transport ↘️ flic.kr/p/2sJfzr9
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NEW POST: about bus stop signs idek tbh nowletsbeclear.substack.com/p/missing-th...
everyone is a "chief" in the world of the media the people behind php couldn't be any further from being "chiefs" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
fascinated by this perspective, as something i didn’t learn much (anything?) about and don’t hold much opinion on, let alone feel any connection to allthingsliberty.com/2021/11/teac...
sign language on screens rearing its head again www.reddit.com/r/uktrains/s... a year to the day since my post on it nowletsbeclear.substack.com/p/sign-langu... but i’m not convinced i feel entirely the same way about it being used on departure boards themselves
when i say to people i don't know the south coast i really mean it automaticknowledge.org/os-100km-til...
i take it back because apparently we haven’t been able to make oil filters that will come off without medieval intervention
it can’t just be me that thinks it’s pretty effing incredible that as humans we have perfected the art of making a machine that, subject to shockingly noninvasive maintenance, can run for hundreds of thousands of miles, right? really though?
i take it back because apparently we haven’t been able to make oil fillers that will come off without medieval intervention
it can’t just be me that thinks it’s pretty effing incredible that as humans we have perfected the art of making a machine that, subject to shockingly noninvasive maintenance, can run for hundreds of thousands of miles, right? really though?