Yuri Suzuki‘s “London Underground Circuit Maps” is being shown at the London Design Museum until next January. It was developed through the museum’s Artist-in-Residence programme.
responding to ‘thrift’ as a theme, suzuki’s work explores communication systems in consumer electronics.
a printed circuit board (PCB) is used as a precedent for developing a electrical circuit influenced by harry beck’s iconic
london underground map diagrams. by strategically positioning certain speaker, resistor and battery components throughout the map,
users can visually understand the complex networks associated with electricity and how power is generated within a radio.
Cue humourless, robotic legal threat from Transport for London in 5, 4, 3…
yuri suzuki: london underground circuit map radio
(via Red Ferret)