Overlogo for City of Melbourne
Commissioned as part of the laneway arts project by City of Melbourne, OverLogo was built as a reminder of a bygone era in public transport travel. It spoke directly to those who travelled on trams when conductors punched holes in your tickets.
OverLogo provided a giant billboard in what was, then, one of the darkest and most dynamic laneways in the city – now AC/DC Lane. While framing the laneway in the realm of high art, OverLogo was, in turn, designed to be framed by the ravages of the city
Laneways are also where objects are discarded, thrown into bins. The daily ticket has been thrown away (except by those mad hoarders) and so too the form of economy that saw the value of public utilities being owned by the government, and of individuals providing hospitality within those spaces.
Over its brief life eighteen-month life, OverLogo was vandalised by night club goers and battered by garbage trucks. It became tattered at its edges, just like the small yellow paper ticket it was an enlarged emblem of.
Designed by and co-conceived with Jan van Schaik.
Collaborators
Jan van Schaik
