This issue of the Pentagram Papers presents unpublished photographs of Bel Geddes' 1937 hypothesis of how traffic would flow in future cities.
In 1937, Shell Oil commissioned a model from Norman Bel Geddes to demonstrate how traffic would flow in 1960. The model city was used in advertisements that year and, interestingly, the imagined city is a close approximation of what we see today. Pentagram Papers 11: The City of Tomorrow: Model 1937 is a collection of unpublished photographs of Bel Geddes model.
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Retrospective: London Design Festival
London Design Festival has been an annual celebration of the power of creativity for over 20 years. Since 2008, Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa has served as the LDF’s creative director, responsible every September for the design of a new visual identity. By inventively remixing a few key elements — typography, a signature red (“the colour of London”), and LDF's simple monogram — the program unifies hundreds of events while reaffirming London’s status as a global design capital.
Retrospective: London Design Festival
London Design Festival has been an annual celebration of the power of creativity for over 20 years. Since 2008, Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa has served as the LDF’s creative director, responsible every September for the design of a new visual identity. By inventively remixing a few key elements — typography, a signature red (“the colour of London”), and LDF's simple monogram — the program unifies hundreds of events while reaffirming London’s status as a global design capital.
