Larry Achiampong overhauls London's tube roundel with pan-African designs
British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong has replaced the well-known blue, red and white design of London Underground's roundel with colours and patterns from the pan-African flag.
Achiampong has reimagined the famous tri-coloured tube signage symbol for Westminster's Underground station to spotlight those who have been "erased from history".
The design was a public commission for Transport for London's (TfL) Art on the Underground program.
The roundels are a continuation of Achiampong's Relic Traveller project, which looked at ideas regarding "lost testimony, fallen Empire and displacement", and considered the notion of alternate histories.
The first part of this project saw Achiampong design a flag for The Relic Travellers' Alliance ? a conceptual initiative set up for pan-African unionists of the future, who work to uncover lost diasporic histories from people who have been oppressed.
The Relic Travellers' Alliance flag was hoisted up in the courtyard of London's Somerset House in 2017 as an "Afrofuturistic icon", and featured 54 stars to represent the 54 countries of Africa.
"I thought it would be amazing to create and place this pan-African flag upon a skyline that, essentially, is full of nothing but colonial flags," explained the artist.
Achiampong's redesigns are also based in science fiction, and take cues from traditional African Adinkra symbolism.
They build on his concept of "sanko-time", named after the Ash...
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