Transforming Tate Modern

This is old news really I suppose, but I just happened to notice it’s exactly a year since I was involved in the planning and design of The Great Tate Mod Blog, an online repository of visuals, ideas and discussions which has, in theory at least, been feeding directly into the considerations and deliberations of architects Herzog and de Meuron. They are have been designing the new building for the south side of Tate Modern, due to open, I think, in 2012. Anyway, the site has been steadily filling up with interesting blog postings and user contributions since it’s launch. The photographic mood board worked particularly well I thought, and enabled people to send in pictures by mobile phone in a very similar way to the Folkestone Triennial Photo-Map this summer… funny that! Coincidence?

The website’s visuals were designed by fivefootsix and it was shortlisted for Best of the Web: Innovative at Museums and the Web 2008 and Best Blog Award by the British Interactive Media Association.

http://modblog.tate.org.uk