http://peoplethings.com/andblog/our-hole-in-the-bucket/ An evolving design and communication story by Studio Pip and Co in Melbourne, Australia Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://peoplethings.com/andblog/our-hole-in-the-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-1119 zip Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:45:51 +0000 http://peoplethings.com/andblog/our-hole-in-the-bucket/#comment-1119 Worst public-transport design of the century award goes to the signage for Melbourne's transport system introduced for the Commonwealth Games. Fine white type on apple-green background, impossible to read, helvetica light (the imagination that must have taken!), signs small, unlit and badly placed so as not to be visible from within a tram when one is approaching a station, or from across the road, or when it is even slightly dark. I live in Melbourne and can never be certain if I'm getting out at South Melbourne or St Kilda until I'm half way out of the tram - God help the tourists. Compare these signs to those for Sydney trains - beautiful large serif black type on large white panels announcing 'REDFERN' or 'CENTRAL', visible from your seat both at night and day, as the train first enters the station, repeated at regular intervals, loud and proud. Worst public-transport design of the century award goes to the signage for Melbourne’s transport system introduced for the Commonwealth Games. Fine white type on apple-green background, impossible to read, helvetica light (the imagination that must have taken!), signs small, unlit and badly placed so as not to be visible from within a tram when one is approaching a station, or from across the road, or when it is even slightly dark. I live in Melbourne and can never be certain if I’m getting out at South Melbourne or St Kilda until I’m half way out of the tram – God help the tourists. Compare these signs to those for Sydney trains – beautiful large serif black type on large white panels announcing ‘REDFERN’ or ‘CENTRAL’, visible from your seat both at night and day, as the train first enters the station, repeated at regular intervals, loud and proud.

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