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Speaking of 44RN, he recently collaborated with Geekhouse on their Oregon Manifest Bike. This cargo utility vehicle is the most ornate bicycle I’ve ever seen come out of Marty’s workshop. But there’s more to this bike than a few CNCn’d pieces.
Aaron breaks down the process at his blog and Marty took a ton of detailed photos to show all the details. If you’ve got time this morning, you should read Aaron’s words here and check out Geekhouse’s photos here. It’s pretty rad!
Snowblinded, who’s work I’ve featured here before, was asked to be apart of Art Crank 3 this year. His submission, called Midnight Ride is now available on his site. Check out the full piece here!
Photos by Dylan VanWeelden
Year after year, the Oregon Manifest challenges builders to produce their best work but not in the traditional sense of a bicycle show. The end product is a utility bike and this year’s challenge brought students, design firms and frame builders together for the first time. Chris King‘s Dylan VanWeelden sent me some great photos from the event.
Check more out below!
I’ve expressed my disdain for overly-conceptual bikes but there’s something about Ron Arad’s Soft-Ride bike that makes me laugh and not in a cynical way. Sure, it looks dumb to us cyclists but I don’t think concept bikes are geared towards us anyway. Check out more at Fast Company.
Tokyo Fixed Gear has a few posters left over from Hyper Japan. Head on over to pick one up!
I’m all about handmade, original design and from the looks of things, so are the guys at Mission Bicycle. They just launched the Original Bike Shelf on their site:
“This is the original award winning “Bike Shelf,” featured in design publications and imitated all over the internet. It is available exclusively at Mission Bicycle.
Conceived and designed in San Francisco by Knife & Saw, this beautiful bike shelf is an elegant solution to home bicycle storage. The shelf was created for those in city apartments in need of a pragmatic way to store a bike indoors, as well as for those with plenty of space, whose bike is a work of art.
Hand built in either solid Walnut or Ash, this simple design easily and discreetly mounts to any wall studs. The shelf is strong enough to hold your bike, along with whatever else you may want to store on top.”
Although they are a bit pricey, remember that they’re each made by hand. Scoop one here!
Tokyo Fixed Gear always works with the best artists on their projects. These Andreas Samuelsson tees and accessories look great! When I posted about Andreas‘ work earlier, I had hoped to see some of it make its way onto products and TFG did just that. See the full range here!
Concept bikes never really hit the marker in my opinion. They’re usually struggling to claim some form of individuality by getting hung up on aesthetics. It’s the classic form over function conundrum found in most post-modern design. And while that might be the case here, I’ve gotta hand it to this guy for making one of the most ridiculous looking bikes from a sustainable product like booboard. Stanisław Płoski is a 24 year old Polish design student who studied at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the National College of Arts and Design in Dublin, Ireland.
By using CNC-milled aluminum joints, he then took what I am assuming to be vac-formed bamboo plywood and created a hybrid bike, complete with disk brakes and all. Don’t fret, this bike will barspin. Check out more at Cycle EXIF.
The Golden Saddle Cyclery crew finally has a run of those kick-ass Maneki Neko cat shirts. Grab a white one here and a gray one here.
The Tour is over and as cyclists, we’re all sitting here, scratching our heads, wondering what to do until the next big stage race. One thing you could do is check out all the posters that came from the Tour! Crayonfire, like other cycling illustrators has completed their poster series documenting each stage of the 2011 Tour. Check out the entire collection here. Thanks Matt!
Speaking of Cinelli, a while back, I showed you a teaser for Yann Lewandowski‘s proposal for a Cinelli Laser 2012 Olympics track bike. Yesterday Yann showed me the completed project. Check out more at his Behance page!
Previously:
Yaski’s Vision for the 2012 Olympics
Thomas from Horse Cycles has had this vision for a while to incorporate castings onto a bike frame and it wasn’t until Perry Gargano approached him that it was able to come true. Perry is a jeweler who, believe it or not, took home this octopus from a restaurant in a paper bag and made his castings from it. He then handed off the tentacles to Thomas who wrapped them around the track frame. I’ve never seen this done before and I think it turned out fantastic. See it for yourself at the MAKE exhibition in NYC and check out more at the Horse Cycles Flickr!
If I only had enough wall space for all of these Tour-inspired posters. Jerome’s 2011 Tour de France infographic is being completed today and will be ready for shipment tomorrow. Check out the full view below.
Tracko for the win today! Check out more from Microcosm here.
Tokyo Fixed Gear will be at Hyper Japan at Kensington Olympia this weekend, displaying some soft and hard goods along with artwork by Baby Crow and Robbies Brown Shoes. This piece by Robbies Brown Shoes rules!
Photo by Neil Bridge
Death Spray Custom, the paint house that has produced some epic bike frames in their day, also specializes in automotive and motorcycle paint. They’ve got a show up in London called Delight & Destroy so if you’re around, check it out!
Flier is below.
Today I’m continuing my coverage of Steve Nishimoto, or Nish‘s artwork. Yesterday’s piece showcased his photography and today’s entry looks at some of the packaging that he’s done over the years, specifically for Chari & Co and Macaframa. It’s easy to look at a DVD or in this case, a coffee mug box and forget that someone designed every square inch of the space. Part of the beauty of composition is allowing the design to breathe and Steve executes that perfectly in the Chari mug box. A simple burnt logo in a wooden box is all you need here.
Check out more below!
Holy shit that’s an intense poster. The 2011 CMWC Warsaw posters are in and they look fierce as hell. Is that Steve from TCB there on the left with his arms up? I think it must be!
Good luck to all who are traveling to compete!