Bus-Tops update: new visual identity and meet the team

Hi there, It’s been a while since we posted an update here, largely since we’ve been so busy. You might notice a new design here at the blog, and if you’re interested in how and why we have arrived at this you might be interested in looking at the concept document describing our approach here. We’ve [...]

Bus-Tops: Brief overview document

This document is intended to be a short and succinct recap of the project’s elements and overall aims. Bus Tops Overview –

The Hackney Podcast – Buses

I met the lovely Francesca who creates the Hackney Podcast last week to talk about Bus Tops for the show. I recommend you listen to this podcast not because we are in it, but because it is *wonderful*. Francesca has created a beautiful experience here, at once immersive and eye-opening, deep and utterly Human: Listen to [...]

Bus-Tops update

We had a Bus Tops workshop in beautiful Brighton on Saturday. Emile has a simply wonderful flat looking out over the sea. Some remarkable thinking came out of the workshop, cementing how we will be approaching the Bus Tops project. In the team, and day-to-day planning and management, we’ve been so focused on the  practical [...]

Bus Tops Update – Interactive bus shelter application coming soon

Hi Peoples! Just a quick update to let you know where we are with things and where we’re up to. Over the next 6 weeks we will be developing a micro-site which will let Londoners choose which shelters they would like Bus Tops displays to be installed on. There are two reasons for this – the [...]

Update – Contracts and offer letters

Just a small update to keep you abreast. We have a meeting with the key stakeholders in the project on the 11th of December (the Arts Council, LOCOG and the selection panel for the London region) to talk about the project milestones, cash release (so we can actually get started) and the offer letter. The [...]

Submissions and project timeline

We’ve been getting a lot of emails from artists who want to submit work for Bus-Tops lately. A blog post for submissions was made during our development phase and is still the place to add ideas, but just to be clear: We are not yet in a position to consider any ideas. Here’s a very [...]

Artists Taking The Lead on BBC Radio 4

We Are Playful!

We spoke to the very lovely people at Pixel-Lab about the This Is Playful conference happening on the 30th October as soon as we found out we’d won. We’ll be speaking at the event about Bus Tops, with a talk tentatively titled ‘Infinite Fun Space’ (Thanks for the title Ian M Banks!). If you’re interested [...]

Bus Tops – we’re going to do it!

Wow. We won!! Mostly we had put the project out of our minds whilst the judging panel made it’s decision. This was mainly so that we didn’t go completely bonkers with anticipation. But here we are: we are actually going to make Bus-Tops a reality! The other finalists in the London arc of the Artists Taking The Lead [...]