London’s Surprisingly Rich History of Transit Textile Design

The brief—and Marx’s and others responses to it—helped to create a visual identity for London’s public transit through textile design, one that still continues today. Since the 1930s, London Underground’s chosen designs have become more muted, their print components smaller—textiles such as the Joy Jarvis shield design are somewhat punchier than those favored today. Just as female artists created many of the network’s best loved poster designs, women such as Enid Marx, Joy Jarvis, Marion Dorn and Marianne Straub played a central role in deciding just how train and bus interiors would look, working alongside talented male designers (including Paul Nash and Douglas Scott) to help define a British vision of modernity.

Source: www.citylab.com