Go n-eírí an bóthar leat

May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind always be at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

and rains fall soft upon your fields.

From an Old Irish Blessing, via. Here, because the sentiment is close to that of a wind-beneath-my-wings motorhome livery.

As posted previously, I've become interested in the trope. This — edging toward cliché — but I've struggled with the distinction between the two terms, here and there. This may be wrong but tropeimplies a figurative device which is still relevant or useful, as opposed to redundancy and overuse of cliché. Both are interesting, as is the oscillating space — if it exists — in between. So the kind of nondescript, abstract form that somehow signifies a hoped-for lifestyle.

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The top photos were taken between Montpellier, Nîmes and the Ardèche; the E15 Euro–holiday-route. The poor camera shake quality — by accident rather than design — glitch-propels the livery on its way to some campsite or other.

Also thinking about a mutation of neutral (perpendicular, grounded, tangible — or looking back at you), into aspirational (diagonal, buoyant, intangible — or looking away, at what you want to be) primary forms. There is some recollection of the way this first happened in the 1980s and the Thatcherisation of logos such as British Telecom and British Rail. Shown here, the BT logo 1980–1991 and then the rebrand 'Piper' logo of 1991–2003: "The reorganisation was named Project Sovereign to reflect the company’s commitment to meetings customers’ needs – ‘the customer is King’" (from Ask).

It's such a common migration of one to the other, across corporate culture. I don't care a jot about Kraft but am still dismayed, diverted by the overcooked euphemism of this redesign. Make today delicious. Via. Off to have a Crap Kraft Dinner.

Via. Requisite, pre-digital vector tool: the French Curve.

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Drawing +/- : Wk01 Speed lines from TU+ on Vimeo.

All brought together here: the sentiment and the tool. "Top North East Club Band 'French Curves' featuring Miss Jane Reed singing The Wind Beneath My Wings".

Here and there, identifiably a less liquid, earlier decade of livery. Stacked gauges of horizontal lines. Pre-tapering and whiplash. Like the first, tentative pinstripes of sponsored football kits, ahead of later gradated, flocked excess.