The Radavist

Oh man. Chris, you’re the man. I was hoping someone would do something about that video!

The Fringe Union houses some of Sommerville’s most unique artists. From Keena Photography, to Aarn Works Design and Icarus / Royal H. Cycles, just to name a few, this old warehouse contains true talent! Paper Fortress, one of the Fringe companies, put together this video showcasing the studios.

Yeah, it’s been a while right? I haven’t posted much architecture here as of late. Mostly because I haven’t really seen enough work that’s worth the mention. I know that’s a bit cynical but it’s true. That’s until I saw Lake / Flato‘s latest work for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Now with all the doping allegations flying around Lance, it’s easy to forget what he’s done for cycling in Austin and cancer research. I have my own opinion about finding a cure for cancer, which I won’t go into here so let’s just focus on the lovely photos of the Lance Armstrong Foundation HQ provided by Arch Daily.

This is right down the street from my house here in Austin. Time to make some phone calls and get into that space! I’d love to shoot photos of it.

Oh my god. Imagine my excitement when I received a shipping tube from Christauf Wright, the man behind my favorite shirt of last summer: the Baphomet for Go Means Go. I hastily opened it up to find this lovely gem begging to be put up on the wall.

Check out more photos of this bad-ass print below!

So I’m about to put in an order for 1,000 stickers again and I wanted to ask for some input. With endless possibilities for colorways, which ones do you guys like the best? The idea behind the upper right sticker is that the beard and eyeball would be clear so you could put it over any color.

Thoughts? Any other options you’d like to see? Feel free to leave a comment!

Check out what The 5th Floor worked on with Brother:

“By popular demand we have available for sale a pre-order on a limited run of 25 of the 5th floor x Brother poster prints. This is gold print on black 350gsm quality stock. Each will be rolled and posted in an individual protective poster tube. £10 plus postage. Grab them while you can over at our store!”

Out of all the ‘bike-part skulls’ I’ve seen, this is one of the better ones (the best being Fast Folks‘). Clean design fellas.

Thomas from Germany shot me over this Viking logo that he never submitted to the Hold Fast contest and I thought it merited its own post. Pretty rad right? Check out more of his work here.

I like this for many reasons and one of which is how they chose obscure, Canadian cycling legends.

“Ptborides.com teamed up with our good friends at Jacksoncreekpress.ca to bring you a limited edition print featuring the names of our 5 favourite Canadian cyclists.

In 2010, Jeff at Jackson Creek Press had made a series of three prints; Limited edition runs featuring the names of 5 Canadian graphic designers, 5 Canadian authors, and 5 Canadian musicians. When we launched ptborides.com it seemed automatic we should make a cycling themed print. Since Jeff is into riding bicycles, he was eager to make it happen as well.

Last week, on a cold Canadian evening, three of us met up in the Jackson Creek Letterpress shop. With frozen toes and toques and parka’s worn in earnest. We set type, thawed ink, listened to the CBC, talked about Greg Curnoe and Mariposa bicycles and cranked out — literally, by hand — 50 prints.

We did so on a 1940′s Proofing Press using wood and lead type, handset in the bed of the press. The print features two colours, Pantone Warm Red, and a Custom Grey. I am biased, to be sure, but these prints look very nice. We couldn’t be happier with the end result.

Of course, with a project like this, the first problem you run into is thinking about all the names not included in our list . . . There is no way around that. However, in case you missed it, Kieran wrote some words about why these names are important to him.”

Check out more information here.

I understand that this is only half serious but could you imagine?

“Sometime early this year, New York City’s taxi and limousine commission will announce the winner of its “Taxi of Tomorrow” competition. A look at the three finalists confirms that they are all, as requested, “safe, fuel-efficient, accessible, durable, and comfortable.” They are also, well, dull. Allison Arieff spoke with the artist and inventor Steven M. Johnson, a self-described conjurer of “ludicrous” ideas, about the taxi of tomorrow. Here are a few of his ideas, some pragmatic, some dystopic, others clearly silly.”

Read up more about this at the NY Times.

Sometimes I come across an image of an old cycling company and I just go apeshit over it. A while back I found a photo of a downtube decal on an unmarked bike and decided it was perfect for a flip. Last week, I Tweeted that I needed some graphic design help and Julius Santiago from Bulius hit me up. I knew his work from the Fixed Fight branding and was stoked to work with him. I wanted something vector that would somewhat match the Viking logo. This is where it’s at now. I’m stoked!

Many thanks to Julius for such a rad job. Thanks homie! Oh and if anyone finds the image this was based off, post it in the comments and I’ll send you some stickers.

Brainstorm Print and Design have a few cycling-related posters in their webshop. Make sure you check out the rest of their work here.

Maybe you remember the Eley Kishimoto X Death Spray Custom Supercorsa I posted a little while ago? Well it made it into Wallpaper* and Death Spray Custom has the pages scanned in over at their blog. I suggest you check it out. Loving the extent of this collaboration. Looks great guys!

When you’re a shop like Velo Orange, you’ve got to have some classic cycling posters. Which is why Dylan from Type Goes Here decided to help the gang out by designing a few. This is just one of them so make sure you head to the VO blog to see the rest!

Artist Arie Dyanto has a forthcoming exhibition entitled Love / Velo. It opens January 22nd 2011 at SIGIarts Gallery.

Via Cyclonesia / Woof

Speaking of the Great White North, Misha Frolov is one of the crew members with an artistic background. He was born and raised in Moscow and moved to Canada in his late teens. Misha holds a Bachelor Of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Alberta College Of Art And Design. He now lives in Toronto where he works and rides bikes. One of his recent side-projects was carving these track bike figurines out of wood. Pretty rad!

Check out each individual rider below!

David Gibbons was contracted by Wired to illustrate a “how to” skid technique. He chose a manga-inspired “atomic skid”. Pretty rad. Flickr has been a gold mine as of late with all the fixed gear radness. Check out more of David’s work here.

By now I’m sure you’ve seen the work of Yann-G floating around the interwebs. But one thing I’ve yet to see is anyone take note of his process of illustration through the use of negative space.

These two illustrations above stuck me as his most successful use of this method. The cyclist is outlined by a series of somewhat whimsical lines.

With the latter being the reverse. Reminds me of some of our drawing class exercises in Architecture school. You get a golden star Yann G, I’m really feeling these.

Jeremy from Embrocation sent this over to me and Tracko yesterday and I was apprehensive about posting it. What the hell. Someone’s gonna get a kick outta it!