Lairage

Lairage is the complete operating system for a livestock auction mart, styled after 1950s British agricultural documentary photojournalism and the letterpress sale catalogue — a full-bleed photographic hero of the pens in low winter light, condensed Oswald wood-type headlines, rubber-stamp SOLD and PASSED marks, chalked lot numerals on slate and ruled ledger tables set in Source Serif and Space Mono. The signature screen is the sale-day ring board: the lot currently under the hammer with vendor, breed, head count, total and average liveweight, the live bid in pence-per-kilo alongside the computed per-head total, the underbidder, the next five lots queued and the day's running clearance rate. Around it sits the full sale catalogue for Thursday's prime cattle and store sale — lot, vendor and farm, breed, sex, age in months, head, weight range, reserve and TB testing status; an itemised buyer settlement statement handling gross, mart commission, insurance levy, haulage, VAT and net due; the vendor entry form with holding number, movement licence reference and withdrawal-period declarations; and a haulage load-planning board matching lots to lorry compartments and drop order across a delivery round. Ideal for auction marts, livestock and machinery auctioneers, commodity exchanges and any operator who catalogues lots, runs a bidding ring and settles money between buyers and vendors.