On the right track

摘要

I've always been interested in Big Things, says Paul Priestman beguilingly, having just tried to communicate the excitement and pride he felt when one of the first examples of a high-speed train his consultancy is designing in China rolled out of the shed and on to the line -all 400m of it. A 90-minute conversation with Priestman at Priestmangoode's central London studio turns almost exclusively on his and his partner Nigel Goode's 'Big Things' - trains, planes and even cruise ships - but it covers a lot of ground and draws us into insights into the client/manufacturer/designer relationship, into infrastructure, into engineering, into the branding of nations via their transport systems, and a whole raft of other big things besides.