Monocle has a short video on bike companies that are harnessing well known IDer’s to rethink form.
Compliments of my NYC Dutchie
March 10th, 2010 by James Selman
This is what it looks like kids.
March 9th, 2010 by Daniel Stromborg
Design Observer has a great article on David Maisel’s Library of Dust.
An excerpt:
Each canister held the remains of a human body, an unknown person who had been labeled mentally ill, who had been locked away in an asylum, and who after death had been left unclaimed for years, stacked on a shelf. These canisters held significance far greater than simply being beautiful objects.
The gallery installation didn’t make this clear, and it’s a failing. Unknowing visitors, I was told, first think these are images of bullets, paint cans or corroded batteries. When they are told what they really are, most are stunned into silence.
Go on, get your depressing read on.
Snow, Go!
March 7th, 2010 by Ben Ferencz
Can’t wait to build up my new titanium 29er. Thanks Levi. Crush it.
Mister Glaser is Crowned
March 4th, 2010 by Ben Ferencz
One of my heroes has just become the first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. The man who made me love American Typewriter is still working at the age of 80.
Bicycle Brooch
March 2nd, 2010 by Nick Schonberger
“A late Victorian bicycle brooch in gold and with diamondhubs,circa 1900,1½ inches long.”
Sue Brown, a dealer in antique rings, will have this beauty on show at Antiques in Alexandra (VA) from March 11 – 14. Funny what comes up sifting through a show guide PDF.
Garages
March 2nd, 2010 by Jason Sager
It was in 2001 that, among the people I knew, bikes went from being a possession of consequence, from one that was saved and built up for, to one that was simply a tool, a machine, that of which we plied our trade.
Prior to 2001, I enjoyed shooting the breeze with friends, speaking directly about that to which we rode, why, and how we broke down each element of that machine with personal choice, its selection a mix of opinion, performance, and ultimately, price.
The ethics of stealing a bike
March 1st, 2010 by James Selman
http://www.vimeo.com/9022799
Nice little piece of entertainment by Casey Niestat that has to do with bicycles (which some of you may have locked or left locked long ago).