A while back I wrote about how a group of us brainstormed and produced some concepts for the Radio 1 chart show. After this workshop Hugh Garry, Tom Spalding, Patrick Sinclair and Chris Johnson worked with Six to Start to build a live prototype called The Love 40 and its just launched!
It’s a great piece of work and a good exploration of how to visualise and interact with the top 40 chart. It’s a challenge to reinvent something that has a legacy like the top 40 and present it in a completely new way. The interface is responsive and playful encouraging you to have a click around and explore and it will be interesting to see how the audience responds overtime as it’s such a radical departure from the design that has existed for a quite a while on the website (it’s been tweaked and update but essentially the format has remained the same). The way in which people listen and discover music is continually evolving so hopefully this new visual and interactive direction for the Radio 1 chart is just the beginning.
Read more about The Love 40 on Hugh’s blog.
The Love 40
