You may have seen a Bus-Top in your travels leading up to the new year, with 20 so far having been installed across London. ‘X Days Till We Live’ was the countdown message and starting on January 1st a brand new series of works from Mark Titchner began across the capital, [...]
December 15, 2011
So far in December we have got about half of the Bus-Tops installed. You might have seen them popping up in Camden, Hampstead Heath, Bromley, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and more. Right now they are simply showing a sort of countdown graphic which we update remotely each day, testing out how the site will send [...]
November 29, 2011
As a third year Engineering Product Design student at London South Bank University, I had the theoretical and practical knowledge needed for the project, however had never been in a professional design environment before. So, when I first came across the project I was really interested in how much participation the public will have with [...]
November 28, 2011
Public Art is staid. By and large, it is predictable. The emergence of large scale publicly mediated networks, ubiquitous computing and commercially controlled urban screens provide a backdrop to radically transform what we understand as public art by re-defining it for the networked age. This week we begin installing Bus-Tops across the capital. We are the Art [...]
November 22, 2011
Anyone who has worked in a large scale production environment knows how if just one thing goes out of kilter (a registration hole 1.5mm out across a full manufacturing run say) or one part of the production line breaks down, the whole process grinds to a halt, with only tiny little jobs here and there [...]
November 16, 2011
Having started almost a month ago now, my electronics skills have since witnessed a radical and rapid encouraging improvement. Having once soldered and assembled a humble dampness detector aged 13 my technical knowledge has thankfully now advanced to a much higher level. From my very first day of nodding and hoping for the best in the [...]
November 15, 2011
As the newest intern at Bus-Tops, I was unsure about what the next few weeks would hold. I was pleased to be introduced to an interesting project and enthusiastic group of people. This past week has offered a number of tasks of varying scales to myself and the other interns. These tasks included soldering, wiring and [...]
October 26, 2011
Made in China. Those three words are carried around on about every product that plays part in our daily routine. But despite their ubiquity, very little is known about the real meaning of these words. Even I, with a degree in industrial design, know very little about the reality of outsourcing mass-manufacturing to the far [...]
October 3, 2011
We Have Finally Pressed The Button! After a rather slow yet successful test period with our first prototype in Homerton, we have fed our insights back into the new iteration, and the final physical solution has come to life. Several weeks of remodelling and tweaking most elements of the platform seems to have paid off, and [...]
January 3, 2012