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Stebs at Paper Fortress documented a collaboration between my buddy Aaron from 44rn Design and MWM Graphics. Rather than using the laser cutter to cut acrylic, they rigged it to use a sharpie to create a series of geometric fields on arches paper. Aaron has some photos of the pieces on his Flickr, so check them out here.
Why am I posting this? Because Aaron has something bike-related up his sleeves, once again.
Nick at Saint Cloud in Melbourne snapped a few photos of this rather quirky bike. See the whole thing at the Saint Cloud blog!
Photo by Renks on Flickr
While on my routine Flickr search today, I came across this photo. Madballs are awesome and Mishka’s iconic Keep Watch logo brought the blood-vein eyeball back into the street culture’s radars. Their New Eras pop up all over the world in photos and with D.A.R.T.’s ongoing support of urban cycling and fixed freestyle, it’s not difficult to make the connection here. Whether or not Renks or his friend here know what Mishka is, it’s still the first thing that came to mind when I saw this!
Check out one more at Renk’s Flickr!
Check out the latest from Halfanese. Here’s Jaclyn on her fixed gear. See more details at the Halfanese site!
These new tees from the Grafa and Lapsap crews will be at Urbanscapes 2011 and are limited to 60 pieces. Track racers with skulls never get old.
Bas shared with me a project he recently completed. It’s a series of linocuts inspired by the parts from a track bike. Check out the rest here.
Ray from Lead Graffiti emailed me about their Tour de France homage project. The Tour de Lead Graffiti project consists of 23 posters in 23 days, all reflecting a stage’s events:
“This is a project that has been banging around in our head since the summer of 2004 when Jill and Ray took a 4-day break during the middle of a study abroad trip to London with 24 of Ray’s Visual Communications students from the University of Delaware.
Ray was walking from their London flat on Tavistock to the Russell Square Tube station and saw a bunch of his students in Student Travel Associates making travel reservations for various trips during an upcoming break in our schedule. Ray decided to ask about his own trip for the 4-day break which happened to be over the opening weekend of the 2004 Tour de France that would start in Liége, Belgium.”
Check out the initial seven here and keep checking in for future posters as events warrant!
Earlier this week, we saw a sneak peek at the LDG x Hurley ‘Phantom 4D’ project. Nate from LDG shot me over an email with the full press-release and photos enclosed.
Check it out below!
I love how Tracko disappears for weeks and comes back with gems like this:
“Trek Bicycle and renowned illustrator Hydro74 have teamed up to create a Spartacus-themed aesthetic appearing on the Trek Madone 6.9 SSL and Speed Concept 9.9 to be ridden by LEOPARD TREK’s Fabian Cancellara in the upcoming 2011 Tour de France. Known throughout the cycling world as “Spartacus” for his gladiatorial physique and warrior mentality, Cancellara will compete on both bikes throughout the entire race. The paint scheme will soon be available for order Friday, July 1 through Trek’s Project One custom bike program.”
“To create a truly unique bike for a unique rider, Trek hit up the graphic illustrator known as “Hydro74” to lend his talent to the project. Evoking iconography of the classical Greek warrior-state of Sparta, Cancellara’s bikes are emblazoned with the Thracian helmet and the dory, a spear employed by all Spartan warriors. Through the direction and collaboration with Trek’s in-house design team, Hydro 74 created a series of icons including the helmet, spear, shield, and a carved serpentine floral pattern.”
Check out more here!
LDG gives us a sneak peek at their collabortation with Hurley on a track bike.
Yeooow! We’ve seen hand-carved bars and stems before but this takes the cake. While I love the gestural work of Kosuke Masuda, this Tommasini by ADV is over-the-top with arabesques-styled pantography.
Check out more below!
The guys at the Foot Down have a new shirt up for sale. Check out all the details here.
The folks at Ideum Apparel gave me the heads up on this news:
“The Others Experiment was created to bring new artists and designers to light that would not normally have the capability to print their own t-shirts. We don’t want to put any restrictions on the design other then what we give ourselves, size & color. Basically with this competition we just want the best that others can do. Even beyond size & color requirements don’t plagiarize, don’t take someone else ideas or designs.”
Check out more here!
Over the years, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the videos that e r t z u i ° film puts out. Here’s their 2011 demo reel. Loving it!
Now that’s what I’m talking about. If you don’t read Yehuda Moon, your chain must need replacing! Check it out here and don’t forget to draft Yehuda on Twitter.
I Love Dust recently contributed artwork to the Feed My Ride project. Spearheaded by Progress Packaging, this artwork will be printed on a musette bag. Here are some details:
“Feed My Ride is a collection of limited edition cycling musettes designed by 15 leading UK designers, curated and produced by Progress Packaging.
All musettes are screen printed dark grey on 12 oz custom dyed canvas with woven PP handle and two colour moulded silicone label. Designs produced in a limited edition of 100.”
Check out more here. Via Highsnobiety.
Now it’s time for something completely different. I don’t usually post up these crazy aero-looking collaboration bikes but this one by Boicut for Fixdich was sent in by Jürgen Friesinger of Boicut and I’m digging it. I don’t wanna give away the whole bike so head Boicut’s blog for the full monty.
The more and more I watch videos from e r t z u i ° film, the more I fall in love with what they do. This recent teaser showcases some clips promoting the Radale event that’s being thrown on the gravel roads and streets of Conne Island, Leipzig on July 8th-10th.
Solid!