Does the london underground sybol mean anything?

Question

Doing an art project and including stuff on the london underground, loooking at the symbol and trying to discover whether it represents anything can anyone help me out??

Answer 1

Think it's meant to be a tube (underground line) with an old fashioned station sign over it.  Research anything by Harry Beck and you'll find a lot more info on the font they used, spacing and that kind of thing.

Answer 2

The logo started out as that of the London General Omnibus Company. At that time it was a spoked wheel with the word GENERAL across the middle. The bus company was bought out by the Underground group in 1912 and the bus company's logo simplified and made into a readily recognised symbol whereupon it was used mainly on platforms to display the station name.

Answer 3

It means Underground

Answer 4

Don't think so

Answer 5

It means a sweaty packed journey that is only very occasionally not blighted by delays, signal failures and engineering work

Answer 6

The roundel

The use of the roundel with the station name in the blue bar dates from 1908. The roundel seen above can be found at Leytonstone tube station.

The origins of the roundel, in earlier years known as the 'bulls-eye' or 'target', are obscure. While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the 19th-century symbol of the London General Omnibus Company — a wheel with a bar across the centre bearing the word GENERAL — its usage on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms. The red circle with blue name bar was quickly adopted, with the word "UNDERGROUND" across the bar, as an early corporate identity.The logo was modified by Edward Johnston in 1919.

Each station displays the Underground roundel, often containing the station's name in the central bar, at entrances and repeatedly along the platform, so that the name can easily be seen by passengers on arriving trains.

The roundel has been used for buses and the tube for many years, and since TfL took control it has been applied to other transport types (taxi, tram, DLR, etc.) in different colour pairs. The roundel has to some extent become a symbol for London itself.

Typography

Edward Johnston designed TfL's distinctive sans-serif typeface, in 1916. "New Johnston", modified to include lower case, is still in use. It is noted for the curl at the bottom of the minuscule l, which other sans-serif typefaces have discarded, and for the diamond-shaped tittle on the minuscule i and j, whose shape also appears in the full stop, and is the origin of other punctuation marks in the face. TfL owns the copyright to and exercises control over the New Johnston typeface, but a close approximation of the face exists in the TrueType computer font Paddington, and the Gill Sans typeface also takes inspiration from Johnston.

Answer 7

The world famous London UndergrounD symbol represents the original undergound railway, the Circle Line, built by the cut and cover method during the mid-Victorian era. Finest example of a Victorian UndergrounD station is Baker Street.

The line running through the circle represents the District Line.  Both the Circle and District Lines were up and running with steam engines back in Victorian London.

Please note that the word UndergrounD in reference to the London Tube, has a capital letter D at the end - this is the correct spelling.

This next link gets you all the Tube Stations on the London UndergrounD - you can click on each of them and find out what's going on above ground as it were.

http://www.metazone.co.uk/london-undergr...

A Driver's eye view of the London Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKflLrxD...

London UndergrounD logo links

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid...

History of the London UndergrounD - lots of links

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=na...

Answer 8

it means their is a station where the sign stands