London Underground Classics – Enid Marx

The london underground might be derided as a creaking, rickety antique of a public service but atleast there were some great design moments in its history – Harry Beck and his iconic map, Charles Holden and his modernist masterpiece stations and the lesser known Enid Marx who provided many moquettes (fabric designs) for the tube seats.

All images from Seadipper

The TFL has decided they would like to open up the design of new moquettes to the public – There is a £5000 prize which sounds great in principle but for a professional designer this isn’t much at all – considering the usage the TFL will get from the designs.

Moquette competition

I can understand change, progress and iterating design to make it better – I just hope they leave these designs in place somewhere as a reminder of how good design can be timeless.

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