Euston

Back to more usual Ace Jet fodder...

As I've almost certainly touched on sometime before, I'd been working for 18 months before the Mac turned up and changed studio life for ever. Even after that, we did it the old way for quite some time, those Macs were barely good enough for knocking out a decent bit of the most straight forward typesetting let alone handle any kind of worthy sized image. So visuals were done by hand, with markers and paint. You needed to draw stuff. Or know someone who could draw stuff. In more recent times, I've enjoyed reverting to that approach with great success. Even so, I don't mourn the passing of those days and those processes; they were sometimes great and sometimes a major league pain in the ass and I'd be lost without my lovely Mac now. But having clearly got past a period when I might have thought marker visuals old fashioned or naff, I have fond feelings for the engaging dynamism that the freehand artist brought to the artist's impression. 

Comments

[Paul Mison]

I came across this brochure as a PDF about a year ago, and then went and found it again, so I could actually bookmark it. I thought then that I'd love a paper copy, and somehow I'm not surprised you've found one. You can download a copy from http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docSummary.php?docID=379

The picture of the cafe you photographed is indeed marvellous. Mind you, the old Euston was a thing of beauty as well; I have an old Penguin guide to transport with a photo of the ticket hall, and it's magnificent. (If I remember this evening I'll make a note of which book.)

[CraigS]

Absolutely gorgeous a great find, thanks for the link too Paul, although I'm sure the printed version is a thing to behold!