Pop artist Sir Peter Blake and Turner prize-winner Martin Boyce are among the artists who have reworked the iconic London Underground logo in a project celebrating its creation a century ago.
A hundred artists each received £100 to reimagine the roundel, the iconic blue crossbar bisecting a red circle.
Their photographs and paintings, drawings and prints, collages and sculptures appear in a book, called the Roundel, to be launched tomorrow at the Victoria & Albert Museum ahead of displays at Southwark Tube station.
Tamsin Dillon, head of Art on the Underground, described the responses, including Doug Fishbone’s cover-up of Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach’s work and Sir Peter’s grid of vibrant colours as “imaginative and playful, bold and irreverent”.
January will mark an even more important anniversary — 150 years of the Tube network.
