Rider Spoke invites you to cycle through the streets of the city alone with a smartphone on your handlebars and a voice in your ear. You're asked questions about your life, searching for a place to hide your answer to each one. As you cycle, you get to choose - answer another question, or look for the hiding places of others and hear what strangers have to say? The design for the app uses imagery drawn from Mexican votive painting, sailor tattoos and heraldry: swallows flutter across the screen to show available hiding places, prefab houses indicate places where others have hidden. Votive paintings express gratitude (or sometimes a request) to a saint. Tattoos and heraldry are both badges of identity; early tattoos were hard won symbols of belonging, often indicating an achievement for a sailor. Sometimes they showed how far you had sailed. Sometimes they were expressions of hope for a safe return from a voyage. This combination of styles reflects Rider Spoke’s themes of travel, reflection, personal expression and hidden messages.