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Juvi Kyle’s got one hell of a photo set up on Tracko today featuring the work of LA-based photographer Bill Daniel in a freshly Hamburger Eyeland-published zine entitled “847, Do You Have Your Radio Off?”. The zine focuses on SF bike messengers during the late 80’s and early 90’s. Like Kyle, I can’t describe how rad this looks so go pick one up here!
PeSeta constructed a bicycle-powered sewing machine for The New Museum in NYC where it is now on display. For those of you who can’t make it, check out this documentary on the inception of this unique and practical device.
How has no one else reposted this? It’s amazing. Artist Andreas Samuelsson recently used his quirky minimalist eye to design some graphics for Tokyo Fixed Gear. Max really pulls in work from the best artists. I love this!
We all thought GOrilla had gone extinct but as Kris found earlier today, the company is alive and well. As their newly-updated website shows, they’ve undergone a bit of branding evolution. Now their head badges sport “Urban Cycling” and their new shop in Zürich is redefined and refined. I wonder who they’ll get to market the Kilroys now?
Check out more at GOrilla.
Previously:
What’s Going on With GOrilla?
Rui Alves is a Portuguese industrial designer with a love for cycling. During Milan Design Week 2011, Rui unveiled a new series of cycling-inspired furniture pieces: the Tour chair, the Vuelta side table and the Giro sunbrella. The tour chair is awesome and you can check the rest out at Design Boom! Thanks Daniel.
Last week I posted up a teaser of Etienne’s Viking logo re-design and everyone seemed to be stoked on it. Well, here’s the full design, along with a few detail crops.
Check the rest out below!
In their ongoing collaboration series, Hold Fast just handed Torey a few pairs of Wrahw FRS straps. Head over now to scoop these up!
One of the first posts here on the blog after I left the old Blogger platform was a piece drawn by Nick James that was simply titled, “Streetwear“. Later we saw the John Prolly Adventures and now, it seems that Nick’s hand is getting some much-deserved love over at the Mishka Bloglin.
Two years ago, Nick sent the guys at Mishka a holiday card. It was around the same time that he sent me this one. When Mikhail got it in the mail, he immediately contacted Nick about using his sketch in a t-shirt design. Well, the shirt’s for sale now and to commemorate Nick’s work, the guys at Mishka made a great post about him on the Bloglin. Go check it out!
I also want to add how awesome it is that Nick almost always incorporates a bike in his work.
The same crew that brought you C’EST LA MERCKX are working on a new event, the ALLEÏ KET in Bruxelles! They’ll be printing this art up using a Risograph technique. Love the flier! Is that Tony Fast peeing on the racers?
Christoph Ohanian‘s work looks vaguely familiar to me but I can’t find many mentions of him online. The recent graduate’s life influences his art and when you’re a cyclist, it’s hard to overlook that in your work. These are only a few of his illustrations. You can see more at his portfolio site. Don’t miss the 6-day race piece!
You may have seen Matthew’s work before. His bicycle-inspired illustrations have a certain character all their own and this recently-proposed (and nixed) project for Adidas really pops off the page. Check out more of Matthew’s work here on his Flickr or on his site here. You can also see the full illustration of the Light Cycles here.
As I’m listening to the new Blut Aus Nord, I’m trying to figure out what to write with this post. I guess I’ll have to leave it up to Etienne:
“Project based upon Viking Logo created by John Watson for his cycling-culture blog Prolly Is Not Probably.
This new version was made as a fanart. I tried to adapt my late virtual airbushing technic to John’s original design. Beard, hair and bones cannot be translated literally into metallic surfaces, so I had to make some changes to the design, pulling it toward a robotic theme, while keeping the original global shape.”
You should see the full-design. It’s pretty impressive. Man, I outta do something with all these viking renditions. Anyone know a good book publisher? Or maybe a zine is more appropriate? What are your thoughts?
Previously:
Etienne Chaize: Velologos
I caught this illustration by Matt Williams, aka Uberkraaft earlier this morning but held off on posting it because I wanted to give it some space from Lamour Supreme’s Biking Viking. Why? Well, you can’t post up two rad illustrations like this too close to each other, they might battle it out!
If you looked through the new Fixed, and One volume 01 last week, chances are you caught Uberkraaft’s third-eye track racer illustration. Someone’s a fan of Thomas Hooper‘s art!
Pick one of these up at Society 6 for $20.
Man, it’s a Viking overload! First J.P. Elliot finished up the Helm of Awe Viking logo and now Lamour Supreme unleashes the Biking Viking on us. It’s like a Norse army. Just wait till both of these illustrations get put to use.
So here’s a little back-story. After he drew the Monster Track 8 spoke card, Joel drew the Demon on a Track. In fact, it was one of the first track bike illustrations that I remember seeing. At the time, Joel went by Fixed Fiend, not Lamour Supreme. It blew my fucking mind. How bad-ass is that? (Don’t forget the Track Rex!) I hit him up on Flickr back in 2007, asking if he ever made prints of the Demon on a Track and from there on out, we were friends. Later I introduced him to the Mishka guys and now he’s like Greg’s Mishka’s creepy dad, doing various projects and traveling around the world sculpting Kaiju like the new Red Jade Mongolion. Joel gave me the Demon on a Track drawing for my birthday last year and it brought tears to my eyes!
So this is just a teaser. I quickly traced Joel’s drawing for a post and am going to pass it off to more able-bodied designers to clean it up. Expect this to make its way onto something in the near future.
Yeah yeah yeah, I know you guys already saw this last week but it turns out that Death Spray Custom had their own photos of a build that was featured in Pedal Speed and Tokyo Fixed Gear had nothing to do with the older build we saw. At any rate, check out more photos over at the DSC blog!
One of my favorite bike-related art prints is now on sale. Snowblined has marked down all their prices and now, the Road Flare print is only $20 plus shipping.
Since the last version of this design sparked so much controversy with my German readers, J.P. Elliot and I decided to change it up a bit. While the sun wheel began as something Icelandic and Nordic, the Nazis most definately repurposed it to mean something entirely different. It sucks when that sort of thing happens but as history has shown, symbols aren’t evil, people are.
That’s why we decided to shift the design to the Helm of Awe or the Ægishjálmur, a symbol of protection. In ancient Nordic tribes, it was said to be scratched or drawn on the inside of one’s battle helmet or on their armor to give the wielder power over evil and to protect them during battle. Sometimes it was drawn in blood and placed on a warrior’s forehead or worn on their back. These specific runes originate from the history of Odin, Thor, Freya and other ancient viking history and aren’t thrown around as much in modern times as say the pentagram.
While I can’t say what I’m using this for just yet, I can show you the whole design. Expect more information on Tuesday for a pretty rad project I’m working on!
Death Spray Custom is known for their over-the-top paint jobs on track bikes and from the looks of this teaser, their next project is going to be pretty bad ass!