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Saying it in style - and with a local flavour
Passenger transport industry design specialist Ray Stenning continues his regular look at how the style and experience of the product can make a massive difference to its appeal.
Exciting shapes with styling to suit their markets. High-speed trains (In France, Germany and Italy pictured) have a lot going for them in terms of image. And even more so where the livery and interior design celebrate their specialness.
French panache: the trams in Grenoble have had fun with colour inside and out
Stylish new trams for Blackpool, but what does their livery say about the town? My ideas for Brighton & Hove have sought to celebrate the resort’s specialcharacterRay Stenning
Design is a language that is international, and in an increasingly global society we are all better able to understand its vocabulary, grammar and syntax whether we are from Brighton or Bratislava, or whether that design was created in London or Lille.
That said, design also has the capability to speak with a local accent, and in the area of passenger transport there is an opportunity to reflect the culture and personality of particular places in the design, identity and styling of the...
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