Consumer Futures

From the mundane to the arcane.

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27 Stylish Airliner Liveries From The Past

There was a time when passenger airplanes wore more sophisticated dress then nowadays, when airlines try to stand out from the crowd by applying huge images, harsh tones, and giant letters to their fleets, often covering all the fuselage of the aircraft.

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The London Programme opening credits, early 1980s

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Roads to nowhere: the Inner London Motorway

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Eduardo Souto De Moura & Adriano Pimenta Arquitetos - 27 cost-controlled houses, Sete Cidades 2015. Via, photos (C) João Morgado.

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Beauty. Lincoln, February 2015. 

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#TBT: 1983

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Some light afternoon reading for you.

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Metropolitan Borough of Deptford, 1900-1965

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Oh videophones, you were too beautiful for this world.

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Cutting edge technology keeps the tube running.

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Severn Beach station, in Gloucestershire, is the lonely, desolate terminus of the Severn Beach Line. This forgotten outpost of the Great Western Railway will feature as a location in an upcoming stealth game by Bristol-based production company Andalusian.

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Coastal defences on the beach between Kinghorn and Burntisland.

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"Closed down by Lambeth Council in the early 1990s due to cost-saving measures, [Brockwell Park] Lido was occupied by squatters in the summer of 1993, who lived in the disused changing rooms and offices around the pool. The abandoned site was used for parties, raves  and even an end-of-tour party for The Levellers, but the night I remember most was the incredible show put on by the Exploding Cinema in August ’93..."

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Loughborough, January 2015.