Wallace Manning | British Rail Corporate Identity Manual | London (UK) | By Lee Fleming

There's plenty of projects that have recently caught the IDMC° teams eye on Kickstarter but one in particular we don't want to miss out on is the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual by London-based graphic designer Wallace Henning. The Kickstarter campaign looks to reproduce the iconic British Rail Corporate Identity Manual with full from the Department of Transport. Henning's reproduction looks to celebrate British Rail's identify, beyond its distinctive symbol created by Gerry Barney at Design Research Unit which became a shorthand for Britain’s national rail network.

Henning's high spec reproduction entails the assistance of Nick Job, a recognised custodian of the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual. The book will collate approximately 220 pages into a clothbound hardback volume, additional features includes a foreword by Michael C Place, (creative director and founder of Build), introduction by Tony Howard (former head of design at British Rail & managing director of Transport Design Consultancy), an essay by James Greenfield (creative director & founder of Koto) and interview with Gerry Barney, designer of the British Rail double arrow symbol.

To support the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual visit their Kickstarter and/or visit Wallace Henning's website.