Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Brand,Identity or Logo-Workshop 1

For the next stage of this task, we were asked to find a Brand, identify or logo to represent each of the nine answers to the questions. 

-National Identity-


This is clearly based around the identity of Britain, which is something that my chosen topic represents.

-Call Girls-


Example of a call girl company logo, there promotion are often left in phone boxes. 

-BT-


-Mobile Phones-


-Kate Moss- 


-The Pub Landlord- 


-Speed Dating- 

-Internet Chat rooms- 


-Twinings Breakfast Tea- 


















What is Good-Workshop 1 task

What makes it Good?

-National Identity- the only country in the world with a distinctive style of phone box, recognisable all over the world, as British. Technology and design that has stood the test of time, giving Britain identity.

Who would like it?

-Call Girls- call girls find the phone box good as it is an accessible place for them to advertise, as well as giving potential customers the necessary technology to book their services.

Who wouldn't like it?

- BT- British telecom are responsible for the running and maintenance of all of the UK phone boxes, however less of that a 1/3 of them are profitable, as a result they are starting to remove them from the streets.

What is it better than?

-Mobile phones- The phone box gives you a cheaper alternative to mobile phones, when calling internationally

If your good was a profession what would it be?

-The pub landlord- as a profession the phone box fits the bill, the ideology behind the pub is a very british thing, like the phone box the landlord gets spoken to a lot hearing peoples worries etc. The pub also has drunks pissing in the corner of it.

If your good was a celebrity who would it be?

-Kate Moss- If the phone box was a celebrity it would be kate moss, its design is beautiful, unique however people speak at it, no one listens to it, As well as having longevity. She is also the Rimmel face of London.

If your good was an event what would it be?

-Speed Dating- As an event the box would be speed dating, making reference to constant stream of conversation the phone has to listen to.  These conversations are all had with in time constraints, like the financial constraints of of the phone box.

If your good was a place?

-Internet Chat rooms- This again is all about communication, and not being able to see the person you  are speaking to, you could also reference sex chat rooms, making reference to the conversations had to call girls, spoken about earlier.

If your good was a product?

-Twinning Breakfast Tea- Something that is quintessentially British,   and carries connotations with communication, having tea is associated with conversation and gossip?

What Is Good-Workshop 1

The purpose of this work shop was to get us thinking laterally about our chosen concept, my concept being:

Good is... The red Telephone Box and the national identity it gives Britain. 

Using this as our starting point we were then asked to develop thoughts around questions such as: 

-What makes it good?
-Who would find it good?
-Who wouldn't find it good?
-What is it better than?
-If your good was a profession what would it be?
-If your good was a celebrity what would it be?
-If your good was a place where would it be?
-If your good was an event what would it be?
-If your good was a product what would it be?

These were my initial design sheets, we were asked to come up with 5 answers to each of the categories:






We were then asked to Choose one from each category that we thought was the most thought provoking and relevant to our chosen topic. 


As a task we were asked to then develop our 9 topics, giving reasons why and then link either a brand, or identity or logo to each one....

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Mac Workshop-illistrator-27/9/11


CYMK- can also be referred to as the process colours.




White box is the pre set swatches, to fill colour. 


another way of choosing colour basically, is the top right icon, gives certain percentages,etc. 

which one of these method allows you to consistently apply colour, the swatches palette is the quickest way, like a library of colours. 


swatches pallete 

clear all swatches when u start making your own


swatches menu, allows you to delete all unused swatches 


registration, is the across hair, its a purer richer colour(black) This is used just for text, used for print marks only, not in the art work. 



colour palette menu to create new swatch, after using slider to choose the colour. the swatch name will  be its percentage components.


quick and essayist way is by using the menu in the swatch bar. 


add used colours, is a good way of getting swatches, if you are using previous illustrator files etc, i.e. a client has sent you a logo. 



some of the swatches have this box next to them, this means if you double click on it they will have an icon saying global checked. 


the term global means will effect everything.  this means that any shape with a global icon ticked colour, will change. 


adding tints on the colour palette of your swatches. These  tints will be added to the colour palette.


example of tints. 



the second part of the session is going to be working with spot colours. a spot colour is a single colour. its a colour that is applied using its own printing plate. a ready mixed ink would be a spot colour. inks, that cant be made up for cmyk,would be a spot colour. i.e. gold. cost is a major consideration also. cost in terms of plate preparation. spot colours are also used when using corporate colours, ie. heinz baked beans or shell. brand id.  swatch books the colours are examples of swatch colours, different paper types, metallic colours, are all in separate booklets.  how doe we access these pantones in illustrator. 




coated and uncoated on the pantone library, effects the paper stock you print onto.
to quickly access a pantone, go menu, show find field then type in pantone number. 



if you use spot colours, the only way to get a proof, is to use the commercial print process. 
tints can also be used on spot colours. 


once you have set up a palette, in your swatches. you can save your palette and re use, useful if you have same client over time etc. 


this option is located here, swatch menu bar, and save ai.
you can also use the save as ase format, this means you can transfer the palette between programmes. 


to acess your swatch library(saves) you the go on the same menu, and the go to open swatch library, and either go on user define or other libraries, and the bottom.



to access separations, at commercial print.
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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Design For Print- Further Research

***Villagers angered by the loss of their historic local pub have turned a redundant red telephone box into an alehouse for a night.
Locals in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, opened "The Dog and Bone" to coincide with their annual fete this weekend.
A carpenter created a triangular-shaped "bar" which allowed the barman to stand inside, drinkers to line up outside, and also jammed the phone kiosk door open.

ohn Long, 73, spent months converting the cubicle into a loo after finding the disused box in a reclamation yard in Carhampton, Somerset.
  

The retired salesman, from Taunton, Somerset, fitted the telephone box with a porcelain lavatory pan, hand basin, high-level cistern, frosted glass panes, a heater and a red tennis ball on the end of the lavatory chain.
He said: ''I've done lots of projects, but this is one of the biggest. It's worked out extremely well – better than expected.
''I've wanted a red telephone box for years and I didn't have an outside lavatory, so I thought I could combine the two.
''To be honest, I probably use it more often than the internal lavatory now. It's just so convenient.''


Residents in a tiny village in the Yorkshire Dales are proving their honesty after setting up an unattended grocery store in a disused phone box.
The post office shop in Draughton closed in 2008, leaving the village's 250 residents without access to goods.
The parish council then decided to make use of a derelict phone box after BT made it available for just £1.
Lewis Cooke, who delivers goods to the box from his newsagents shop in nearby Skipton, said nothing had been stolen.
He said his customers could order groceries such as bread, tea bags and milk over the phone and either add the goods to their newspaper bill or pay him with a credit or debit card.
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On the odd occasion somebody's picked the wrong paper up and put it back later on”
Lewis Cooke
He said: "We have been delivering newspapers there for the last four weeks.
"Then one of the customers came to pay the bills and said 'how would you feel about delivering some groceries'.
"We set up making a price list of everything we stock and put it in the phonebox for people to pick up and take home with them.
"It's just carried on from there."
Mr Cooke said he expected more people to taken advantage of the shop during the winter months.
He said: "There's a lot of elderly people up there so it may come in handy for them."
"On the odd occasion somebody's picked the wrong paper up and put it back later on.
"Other than that we've never had any problems at all.


Trust me, you wouldn't want to be a payphone in Manchester city centre. Never a minute's peace with the constant yabber, yabber, yabber and all those germy mouths and hands mauling you every hour of the day. It would be like being a waitress in an Amsterdam knocking shop. And the slamming! Why does everyone do that? Would they treat their own phones like that?
Anyway, I'm in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens because the payphones here are apparently the most frequently used in Britain. You can tell this because there are 21 of them in this spot. Can you believe that? I didn't think there were 21 phone boxes left in the whole of Great Britain. Now that even eight-year-olds and the homeless have mobiles, who the hell uses them any more?
The first person to offer an answer is Kerry Wilson, 23, who has been talking in a call box for ten minutes. It is not yet 10am. “I was speaking to my mum,” she says. “I've locked my car keys and mobile in my car and she's bringing me the spare key.” Ah. So she doesn't normally use payphones, then? “Oh God, no. This is the first time in about two years.”
Mmm. Doesn't really solve the mystery, does it? And how come half the people have a mobile phone resting atop the counter while they talk on the payphone? “Because my mobile's run out of battery,” says Ben Atkinson, 30, looking at me as if it's the dumbest question he has ever been asked. Who was he calling? “My girlfriend.” Kathleen Smith, 45, who has also been clutching a mobile while talking on the payphone, provides another explanation. “I was calling an 0800 number,” she says. “They're not free if you use your mobile and I knew it was going to be a long call.” Quite clever. But nothing I've heard so far is going to make Mr BT very rich.
I spend many hours just sitting here, watching. It's a sunny day so there are probably more people about but I'd reckon that the payphones here are used on average once every two minutes. Maybe people are on lower incomes here. Maybe they are having more affairs. A lot of users are foreigners sending e-mails and texts. Did you know that you can do this from a call box these days? And for only 20p a go. For calls there's a minimum charge of 40p but apparently you get 20 minutes' talk time. Olakan and Jelilat, a couple who have definitely been getting their 40 pence worth, are fans of phone box thrift. “We've been calling a friend on their landline,” says Jelilat. “It is so much cheaper than phoning from your mobile. I always use phone boxes. They're good value for money.”
At last. Music to the ears of the Save Our Phone Boxes Campaign. Alan Wilkinson, 78, is waiting until after noon to call his friend in Malta. “It's much cheaper than using my home phone,” he says. Why? “Dunno, but it seems to work out at about half the price.”
But here's the thing. I notice that some people who use phone boxes look, well, suspicious. Like the suited man wearing a wedding ring who glances round furtively while conversing for nearly an hour at lunchtime. Is it because he'd prefer his wife not to see the record of the call on his mobile bill? We'll never know. “Do you mind me asking why you were using a payphone when you have a mobile in your hand?” I ask. “None of your bloody business,” he replies. Oh dear. And then there was the shiftylooking, unshaven young man who had two mobiles in his pockets and definitely didn't want to talk to me. “Just leave it, love,” he said, slamming the phone box door. Obviously a drug dealer, I thought, then felt guilty because the poor lad was probably only phoning his sick gran.
I'm getting bored now, so I chat to a nice BT engineer who has come to install anti-blocking devices on the phones. Apparently, shady types disable the phones so that when you put your money in they don't work. You assume that the phone is out of order, but when 20-odd people have done this the blocker, hovering near by, recovers all the money. “They make £50 a day,” says the engineer. “We have two people permanently on duty trying to stop the blockers.” He points to two boxes near the Arndale Centre. “See those? The most blocked phones in Britain, they are.”
So there you are. Another phone box fact for Manchester, the city single-handedly saving the payphone. You'll be grateful for that one day.
CAROL MIDGLEY
It's red, it has a very big spider living in the back left corner, it is in the pretty hamlet of Wixoe in Suffolk and its number starts 01440. BT says that it was used only once in the past year. So, until yesterday, it was the least-used telephone box in the UK.
That's right. Only until yesterday. I ruined everything. It was like one of those theoretical particles that stop existing as soon as you look at them. There was no signal. I had to make a few*** calls. What else could I do?
Sandra Revell, who lives next door, said that I was the first person she had ever seen inside the phone box. She has lived here for a year, so I suppose she must have missed the other person. Roy Taylor lives on the other side. “It used to be fairly busy,” he says, while raking leaves from the verge. “Lots of people passing through. It would be a shame to see it go.” Taylor has been here for 41 years, so I guess he's going back a while.
You get one village after another in this little corner of England. Ridgewell, Great Yeldham, Sible Hedingham, Gosfield. Every one has a phone box, standing proud and red. A few miles away in Stoke by Clare, and across the road from another one, shopkeeper Susan Cumber tells me that she used to use her local box quite a lot. Most people did. When she moved here 28 years ago, hardly any of the houses had phones. For the next 20 years the call boxes survived on passing traffic. Then came the mobile phone.
Now BT wants to take away the Wixoe box, and the village (population: not very many) is concerned. “Mainly we use it for giving directions,” says Sandra. “I'll say ‘next to the phone box' much more often than I'll say ‘across from the church'. I'd have to start giving my house number, I suppose.”
Dave Smith is a parish councillor and has lived here for 27 years. “Not long,” he says, emerging from his garden. He is trying to arrange for BT to leave the box, even if it takes away the telephone. The problem is, somebody has to be responsible for it. Somebody has to be insured. The glass could get smashed. A very inventive child could somehow get trapped inside. In modern Britain, public space can't just be left to look after itself.
English Heritage lists 2,800 red phone boxes across Britain but seems more keen on the K1 model, designed in 1921, and the K2 model, from 1924. As far as I can make out, this one is probably a K6, designed in 1935. These are not even terribly rare. Except in Wixoe.
So there it stands, surrounded by whitewashed stones and a little fence, next to a dustbin and a noticeboard sporting a timid boast about success in the battle to save the local post office. I didn't want to use the box. Journalistically it seemed irresponsible. But I didn't want to leave my post, either, in case somebody turned up to use it while I was gone. True, the odds were slim, but you don't want to miss a scoop like that.
The phone doesn't take coins, presumably so that nobody has to empty it once every 30 years. Using my credit card, I called Carol in Manchester. “It's mad here,” she said. “Loads of people. I think some of them may be drug dealers. In fact, there's a queue forming. I've got to go.”
And so she hung up, and I watched the spider scuttle back into his corner. Outside, an orgy of twittering blackbirds were flapping about in a puddle. Mr Taylor came past with Jasper, his big black labrador, and down the road by Mr Smith's house I could see the Suffolk Library bus, with nobody in it. And I waited, and I waited, and I waited, but nobody came

The Summer Brief Presentation

Design For Print- Initial Questionnaire - Phone Box







This post shows the result of the questionnaire, its shows some interesting results. The reasons given for the people who wanted to keep the phone box was that it was a national treasure. and gave britain its identity.

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Design For Print- Initial Research - Phone Box

*** Payphone use has halved in three years, says BT, mainly due to mobile phones. So who still uses them?
Few features of British life are so loved, yet so neglected, as the phone box.
A red "K6" - the 1930s design that inspires such national affection - lies empty on St Giles Street in Oxford, despite the lunchtime bustle around it.
Behind the iconic red door, a Pepsi cup and a discarded four-day-old receipt are the only evidence of conversations past.
Like the 16th Century St John's College just yards away, this monument to British design is part of the nation's history. But does it also still have a social function?
On the evidence of an unscientific, 30-minute survey on this particular day, it would appear not. And BT has its doubts too.
There are now more mobile phones in use in the UK - 70 million, says watchdog Ofcom - than there are individuals, although poor network coverage prevents some people in remote areas from having one.
BT has removed more than 30,000 under-used kiosks since 2002 but two-thirds of the 61,700 payphones remaining are unprofitable, it says. So who still uses them?
The answer can be found a five-minute walk away on Cornmarket Street, one of Oxford's main shopping areas, where eight BT payphones - one boasting e-mail and text facilities - get a trickle of customers in the afternoon.
These are not the traditional kiosks so loved, but the maligned boxes introduced in the 1980s, with no door and no privacy. But at least they have demand.
Acle Canakci, 19, has been trying to call her mother in Turkey to tell her about her new life as a language student in Oxford. She has a mobile but uses the public phone about once a week to ring home because it's cheaper and she lives with a family and can't use their landline.
She didn't get through this time because, she suspects, her mother's telephone battery is low. Usually the call lasts about 30 minutes and a £5 phonecard can keep her going for a few weeks.
"These phones are still important because it's not only the English that live here," she says. "A lot of people in the world come here, travelling or to study, and they need public telephone boxes.
"Of course, I need them too. I know they're not very private but nobody can understand what I'm talking about in my language anyway."
Coin jams
Although the eight boxes in Cornmarket St have periods as long as 20 minutes without any custom at all, most of the callers that do use them are foreign visitors or workers.
Jorge Sanchez, 17, is learning how to call his sister in Argentina, Frenchman Lionel Chan Hu Theng is talking to his sister in Nottingham, while Pedro Alves is engaged in the very British tradition of phone rage.
"Before I put in £2 but only spent 60 pence and it didn't give me any change," says Mr Alves, 31, who works in a restaurant and is showing his mother how to ring Portugal.
"I tried to complain and they go to an answer machine so there's no person to speak to. It's very frustrating."
But there is "native" custom too. Sam Richardson, a teenage gardener, uses a payphone for social calls when the credit on his pay-as-you-go mobile runs out.
Sales rep David Antony, 60, is what one may describe as a heavy user. But he says foreign coins jam up as many as half the payphones.
"It takes about three days for BT to fix them but this isn't the only tourist town in the country, BT should be onto this.
"I use them about six times a day for work. I don't like mobiles because I'm not sure they know enough about the electronics and the damage they do. And they are far too expensive still - BT does reasonably priced telephone calls."
Smashed panes
Especially if you stay on the line for the full 20 minutes on a 40 pence call, like teaching assistant Miss Spencer, 40. She recently lost her mobile but is adjusting happily to life without it.
"I wanted to speak to my sister before she went to a meeting. We forget that we managed to get hold of people and conduct our business without mobiles."
In those days, there would be long queues outside phone boxes and irritation mounted as people spent too long on the phone. Not any more.
An hour spent outside four of Oxford's red phone boxes bears witness to zero use, which suggests their more ugly, younger siblings of the 1980s have the best locations.
The oldest phone box in the city is a rare K2 - the classic 1920s design by Giles Gilbert Scott - and rather fittingly, it is located in the ancient heart of the city at the crossroads Quadrifurcus, more commonly known as Carfax.
Much like the Routemaster bus, the red phone box is associated with an age of innocence, despite the vandalism, the prostitutes' calling cards and the urinating that blighted it.
Unlike its nemesis, the mobile phone, a call made in an old phone box is private, whatever the street chaos outside its four walls. Nowadays, a train carriage can sound rather like a phone box filled with a dozen people.
But there is nothing innocent about this phone box in Carfax, in the shadow of the 13th Century tower of the former St Martin's Church.
Its panes have been smashed and the floor is littered with rubbish and glass. According to staff at the nearly deli it has been like that for at least a week.
A Chinese teenager who wants to call her mother in Beijing opens the door, takes one look at the mess and decides against it.
But a group of French students are undeterred. They just want a photograph of themselves crammed inside, saying the red phone boxes they see on television are a "symbol of Britain", like the red bus or black taxi.
Maybe this is a glimpse of its future, its only function a photo opportunity.
Add your comments on this story, using the form below.
There's an old red phone box outside our house in deepest suburban Bucks. I often see cars pull up and watch their drivers get out and make a call and I've often wondered why. Then the other week I began watching the Sopranos and I noticed that whenever there was any kind of crisis someone would pop out to the nearest phone-booth to make a that urgent call, presumably, avoiding their tapped residential lines. Hmm ...
Barry Neilsen, Marlow, UK

In America you never see a phone box, OR a post box nowadays.
Malcolm Abbott, Leigh-on-Sea Essex

I'm a volunteer for ChildLine and we get a lot of calls from children and young people that are from a phone box. 
Sally, Prestatyn, North Wales

I use them - I've never had a mobile and I neither need not want one, but now the demise of useable 'phone boxes looks like forcing me get one. The problem with phone boxes is that the reduction in use means BT spends less and less on cleaning and repairing them, so they get more squalid, so fewer and fewer people use them. I spend some time every year staying in a beautiful part of the country at a cottage which the owners have never equipped with a phone or TV in an effort to keep it peaceful and minimise distractions. Whenever I needed to make a call I always used to use the red phone box at the top of the lane. Now, however, BT have decided not to bother fixing it. The light's broken, the coin box is full and the hedge is gradually forcing the door shut. You can still dial 999 but that's it. I gather mobile reception in the area is patchy at best.
Henry Oliver, London

If they offered more facilities (i.e. the internet, a map of the area, mobile phone top up, a stamp machine etc) and were cheaper they would be used more. They are still useful for travellers and for emergencies. Maybe spare ones could be put into pubs and clubs as it's usually impossible to hear someone on the phone in those places. They are a design classic and should be saved.
James Wild, London
Phone boxes can sometimes be a lifesaver. When I looked my keys (along with my mobile) in my car, I used a payphone to make a reverse charge call home, so someone could ring the AA for me. Very handy.
Kate
I tend to use phone boxes as they are often quite well sound-proofed - as a place to make mobile calls from - I don't like sharing my conversations with the world, his wife and their screaming children.
Mike Bailey, Vienna, Austria
You should still have payphones in places without a mobile signal, eg in underground stations. Would be very useful when the tube line comes to a halt (as it does often) and you desperately need to let your employer know that you're going to be late.
Bradley Grant, Sandy, Beds, UK

About 10 years ago when I was in the Brownies one part of the uniform was a 10 pence piece that we were to carry in case we got lost so we could use a payphone to ring our parents for help. I guess now most eight-year-olds carry there own mobile or maybe they're not allowed out by themselves.
Helen Lamb, Hemel Hempstead

I forgot my mobile the last Friday - absolute nightmare. Luckily found a phonebox - I had to put in a minimum 40pence, and I only had to make a 20 second call. No wonder no-one uses them anymore. I would have preferred to ask a random stranger if I could have used their mobile, they would probably have only charged me 10p.
Natasha, Worcester Park

in the States pay-phones have their own number so you can return calls to them. Useful if your buddy is always loitering around the same one.
Derrick, Florida
I use my local phone box to direct visitors when to turn into my road. I would be quite happy to pay a small tax to support these icons, even if they are welded shut with models inside. Surely we want to continue to see them scattered around villages, towns and cities watching over us for years to come...in a Doctor Who style!?
John, London
We have a phone box outside our house. Every weekend the yobs smash the glass out and every other Monday BT repair it. Nobody uses it, but BT says they can't remove it because they have an obligation to keep it. It would be cheaper to give everybody who wants one a cheap mobile phone with a BT pay-as-you-go SIM card. I suppose the yobs get some fun out of smashing it, so it's really not wasted money. They could be smashing my windows or something else.
Tim Hughston, Neston, UK
I still use payphones! Every time you see someone with a massive pack on their back, trucking around your country with a funny accent...they use pay phones! tourists, backpackers... ET Phone home!
Rob Black, BC, Canada
I sometimes forget to charge my phone or take it with me, and in those cases a phone box still provides a valuable service. Not everyone can afford a mobile either, and we shouldn't let this public facility (or others such as the Post Office) be wound down just because it's unprofitable. I also think they've shot themselves in the foot with the massive increase in the minimum charge, because most calls I make on a payphone last under two minutes and that makes them really expensive on a per-minute basis.
Gary, Exeter ***

Design For Print- Initial Research - Phone Box

*** By the 1920s a competition, organised by the Metropolitan Boroughs Joint Standing Committee and Royal Fine Art Commission was arranged to alleviate the proliferation of different kiosks and to settle on a single design for the country. By 1924, invitations to submit designs were submitted and a successful design selected. Of those different designs submitted, the winning entry was that by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was born on 9th November 1880 (he died on 8th February 1960) and came from a pre-eminent family of architects. His father was George Gilbert Scott Junior and his grandfather Sir George Gilbert Scott Senior. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott produced iconic designs in Britain including those for Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station. His design for Liverpool Cathedral was submitted in 1903, when he was just twenty-two years old.
With the successful design chosen, the Post Office introduced the K2 (Kiosk No 2). Over the succeeding decades a total of six further designs were produced making a total of eight individual K-"Kiosk" designs. Please visit the variants page to learn more about the different designs for a national kiosk.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What are the dimensions of a telephone kiosk?
A: The K2 telephone kiosk was approximately 9ft 3in/282cm high, 3ft 6in/107cm wide and weighs approximately 1,250 kg. The K6 and K8 telephone kiosks were both approximately 8ft 3in/251cm high and 3ft 5in/91cm wide and weigh approximately 750kg and 600kg respectively.
Q: Why are the kiosks painted red?
A: Red was a highly visible colour. Post boxes also owned by the General Post Office were painted red so the choice of colour was an obvious decision. Originally Scott had intended his kiosks to be painted silver, with a "greeny-blue" interior; but for the internal workings of the Post Office Britain might never have had a Red Telephone Box. Seemingly it is the K8 kiosk that was painted in varying colours, for example sky-blue kiosks stand within Hythe Marina in Hampshirea dark-blue kiosk stands on the westbound District and Cirle Line platform at Liverpool Street Underground Station and a green kiosk stands on the platform at Golder's Green Underground Station.
Q: How many telephone kiosks were installed in the United Kingdom?
Approximate figures indicate the following numbers of kiosks: K1, 6,300; K2, 1,700; K3, 12,000; K4, 50: K5, none; K6, 60,000; K7, 12 (prototypes only); K8, 11,000.
Q: How many telephone kiosks remain in the United Kingdom?
A: Most telephone kiosks are now listed buildings. Figures from October 2009 record the following numbers of listings: K1, five (all Grade II-listed); K2, two-hundred and eight*; K3, three; K4, five; K5, none; K6, two thousand and seventy-two*; K7, none; and K8: one (Grade II-listed). [* some listings may comprise one or more kiosks]
Q: Are all remaining red telephone boxes listed?
A: Not all remaining red telephone boxes have been listed. Following a two year campaign led by the 20th Century Society the first K8 kiosk received Grade II-listing on 8th July 2009. The kiosk, at Worcester Shrub Hill Railway Station, is one of around sixty remaining functioning K8 kiosks in the UK. By the end of 2010 a further six K8 kiosk have been listed. These are: two in Highworth, Swindon; a further two in Wroughton Swindon; one in Street, Somerset; and one in Hawkesbury Upton, Gloucestershire. The remaining K8 kiosks have not statutory protection. Listing is not automatically applied to all red telephone boxes; listing is applied on a case-by-case basis. Therefore other kiosks not listed remain at risk.
Q: Where there any other telephone kiosks?
A: Yes, prior and subsequent to the General Post Office monopoly, examples of kiosks were installed in many parts of the country. For example, following privatisation rival companies such as Mercury Communications established fledgling kiosk networks; allbeit it generally with limited success.
Q: Where is the oldest red telephone box?
A: On the northern side of Piccadilly in London, between Sackville Street and Old Bond Street stands Burlington House, home to the Royal Academy of Arts. Just inside the porte-cochere entrance stands Sir Giles Gilbert-Scott's original, wooden, prototype K2 kiosk. On the opposite side of the porte-cochere is a production-version of a K2.
Q: Where can I see some of the rarer types of telephone kiosks?
A: To view these kiosks in person, the National Telephone Kiosk Collection forms part of the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings in Bromgsrove, Worcestershire (England). The collection comprises examples of all GPO kiosks as well as a collection of kiosks from other independent telephone companies, the Automobile Association (AA) and the Royal Automobile Club (RAC). Please click on the links section for a link to the website of the Avoncroft Museum. A visit to this museum is highly recommended ***