The Radavist

Artwork by Will Baker

Behold, the NECRONOMICOG! Will Baker’s submission is one of my favorites. There’s been some real winners posted so far in the Viking Hold Fast FRS Contest. Are you working on one? Check out the comment thread for some of the submissions.

French bloggers Geometrick teamed up with Parisian shop Cyclope on a run of limited tees that are due to drop any day now. Check out more information at Geometrick!

Buro Taktik took it upon themselves to design a series of posters to celebrate Bianchi‘s Pista line in 2010. The type treatment and colors are spot-on. Really stoked on these. Check out more here and thanks to 44/16 for the heads!

If only more offices embraced indoor bike parking like Yelp’s new headquarters in SF. Here’s a snippet from Yelp:

The space is intended to link “Yelp’s brand strongly with references to San Francisco.” So, naturally they have bike parking. Tons of it.

Check out more at Fastcodesign.

Artwork by Kyle Sauter

This image serves as a reminder to everyone that the Viking Hold Fast FRS Contest is still under way! Kyle’s submission is one of my favorites but Greg’s work is also killer. So far there’s been some great emails coming in so use this weekend to crank out some more artwork. Here’s a hint, I like creativity! You can do woodblock prints, animated GIFS, 3D models. Anything, just make it rad!

You’ve got through next week to submit something. I’m beyond stoked on the outcome so far.

Previously:
Prolly is not Probably Contest: Viking Hold Fast FRS

I know what you’re thinking “enough already!”. Chris’ list of All My Bikes keeps growing and growing. His latest (and my favorite) entry is his custom-painted MKE Bruiser. Ben’s Cycle and Open Bicycle hooked him up with it last year. Remember? This bike came out so proper. Nicely done Chris. I hope you miss that thing!

Previously:
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 21
Chris Piascik’s Bruiser

I really despise “high design” and conceptual garbage like this:

why does our bicycle need to be connected to light poles by chains like a criminal in prison? inspired by nature, the design of this cable wire lock is a mimicry of ivy. it is unified in our daily scene and promotes protection of the environment. it is soft and feels natural. ‘ivy’ is a plug to awaken the relationship between you and society. 4 dial number lock, steel wire + silicon gom-covered. 2 sizes: short (900mm), long (1500mm)

How the hell can this be classified as a bike lock? Oh and it was shortlisted in a Seoul Cycle Design completion. Really? All you need to get rid of vines, in both cases are some shears. Why not design something with a world-wide application instead of what bike lock to use at a monastery? Good design isn’t gimmicky, it’s applicable. Check out more at Design Boom.

I’m sure you guys remember the Area 51 track bikes right? I first heard about them on Bike Forums some time ago. The story goes EAI supplied John Knox with NOS Columbus tubing and he went to work, building 50 or so track bikes from the supply. Chris Piascik picked one up and loved it. Read up on his thoughts of his latest All My Bikes entry at his blog and happy birthday Chris!

Previously:
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 21

Marc Evans produced a small run of these posters based on quotes from cycling’s greatest racers. You can see them all here, at Hardlyart Design. Via the Foot Down.

I think we’re getting close to Chris’ ( @ChrisPiascik ) All My Bikes series. If memory serves me correctly, there’s maybe 3 more ahead of this one but I could be wrong. A few years ago, the guys at Milwaukee Bicycle Co. approached me to help design the first proper fixed freestyle frameset. There weren’t other framesets available where the frame and fork were designed together, not as an aftermarket afterthought. We came up with the Bruiser. I remember building mine up and being thrilled. It was exactly what we wanted! Soon after, I had some prototypes and since this thing wasn’t breaking, I hooked Chris up with one. This became his first Bruiser and he felt the same way about it as I did. Check out Chris’ recollection here!

Previously:
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 19

Just caught this on Cinelli‘s True Stories index:

Cinelli is very proud to announce it’s involvement in Eley Kishimoto’s FLASH ON project. The project began with the designers Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto interest in our classic Supercorsa Model..

This starting point grounded the project: the Cinelli Supercorsa is a very concrete piece of cycling’s cultural heritage, the longest running production model in the history of road cycling. It is a product by now more akin to a Carlo Barbera yarn than a bicycle simply for the elaborate cycle, and rarity of the techniques, used in its construction.
Knowing this, Eley Kishimoto, with typical playful antagonism, decided to paint “over” the original design, disguising the elaborate details (chromed lugs, pinstripe graphics, proprietary fastback stays)in their signature “Flash” pattern, producing a sort of visual double-take: you-see-it-you-don’t-see-it.

This thing looks bad-ass! Check it out at True Stories!

Yes, screen prints are rad. But 4′ by 4′ prints? That’s insane. In fact, when I first saw this image at Go Means Go, I thought it was a poster. Turns out, it’s just a detail from the artist Adam Haynes‘ recent work for Nike 6.0. Insane right? Check out more details at his site!

Photo by Ilana Spector

Damn! Nissan paid California artist Mark Grieve to erect this 65-foot-tall, 10,000 pound obelisk made entirely from bicycles. Sounds kinda like a snidely jab at cyclists but Grieve states that:

“The statement is up to the viewer and hopefully the work is an intersection of ideas, so it can keep growing with the community,” Grieve said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “When a person brings to a piece his/her own interpretation, the piece is ‘working’ for the community.”

Whatever you say man! The Cyclisk cost Grieve $37,000 to erect.

More photos are up at Wired, go checkem out!

While this isn’t the exact saddle I showed you earlier, it is a sample from the project. But from what Maceo from Kinfolk said, there’s no noticeable difference between the two. I took this photo the other day and it gives you a better look at that Brooks saddle Kinfolk made for Wallpaper*‘s International Bike installation.

Pretty killer. I’d ride it!

Previously:
Kinfolk for Wallpaper* Magazine

Cycling and coffee goes hand in hand. It’s our fuel, the energy we get from our morning brew helps us truck into our day jobs or keeps us pedaling all day. It only makes sense that the Bicycle Film Festival would team up with Coffee Collective and Pi Bjoerg for their commemorative mugs. Here’s the press-release:

The Bicycle Film Festival premieres for the first time in Copenhagen 17.-19.
September 2010. We love bikes and we love coffee. Thus we have teamed up
with one of the most innovative coffee houses, the international renowned
Coffee Collective around a very limited run of 30 coffee cups designed by one of
Copenhagen’s finest ceramic artists Pi Bjørg.

These will move fast. Get yours at The Coffee Collective, Jægersborgsgade 10,
2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.

I hope the NYC office is getting some in!

This short and sweet animation was the winner of the “Originality and craft” mention at the Cerro Castor Film Festival 2010, Argentina. Totally diggin’ it!

Damn Chris, I’m used to seeing a little back-story on each of your All My Bikes illustrations. I guess you didn’t like the Soma Rush all that much? If I remember correctly, this was the first bike that Chris attempted fixed freestyle on, rendering the fork uselessly bent and in pain!

Previously:
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 17

Getting fan email is one of the best things ever. Especially when the fans have something awesome to share. Johnny Porter shot me a kind email today that linked to his blog, Off the Rhodes. Included in his almost Eastern-influenced illustrations was this drawing of Takami, a Japanese tattoo artist. I’m in love! Go check out the rest of his work here, at Off the Rhodes.

Thanks for the email Johnny!