As regular readers to this blog might remember, I do like the patterns on public transport seats, specifically those on the tube. I even tried to do some design with them once and had my fascination outed by Design Week.

Anyway, Transport for London have this quirky tube campaign running at the moment, which invites you to guess whether the statements lovingly recreated from vintage patterns are true or false:

If you can’t bear not knowing the answers, check out the TfL site, where a little story sheds light on each one.

Also, feel free to join my neglected Flickr group to collect new patterns. And if you’ve taken a picture of a seat pattern, it probably qualifies for this group too…

Oh dear. I’ve been carefully nurturing this old career of mine for a while now, and the first time I manage to get published in the illustrious Design Week, it’s some nonsense about seat patterns…

Bit strange really. I only idly commented on their blog a while ago, I had no idea they were going to put me into print. It hasn’t done my charisma any good amongst prospective employers or university contemporaries, but at least I got a juicy big link to this site…