The previously mentioned Alabamboo cross-country bike ride is well underway! Just yesterday the crew of bamboo bikers shared a bowl of gumbo with the families of my former design professor and art history professor in Starkville, Mississippi. You can keep up with their travels here.
This summer a team of Project M cyclists will depart from Greensboro, AL and journey across the United States on COMMON Cycles built with Alabama bamboo to talk about the power of design and the awesomeness of bamboo. The Alabamboo team will plan stops at Universities and organizations along the way to facilitate Think Wrong workshops and discuss the power design has to positively affect the future.
Four of the five cyclists are graphic designers: Brian W. Jones, Marc O’Brien, Jason Dilworth, and my wonderful friend Nicole Lavelle. If you’re interested in this amazing project, they could really use your support. You can do so by helping fund their journey here.
Internet friend and world class illustrator Chris Piascik recently collaborated with Milltag to create this rad type driven cycling jersey! I’m personally excited that Chris had this opportunity because he’s such a passionate cyclist. Bike culture is one of his main sources of inspiration found throughout his body of work. See more of Chris’ bike pieces after the jump.
Script & Seal (PDX studio run by Gavin Potenza & Liz Meyer) produced several amazing bicycle inspired posters for the Portland Mercury bike issue. To send things to the next level, art direction was done by the lovely Nicole Lavelle. Now to top that….all of the posters are available for print here!
The ridiculously clever Jennifer Daniel has contributed 3 new wallpapers to the Kitsune Noir Desktop Wallpaper Project.
Let’s jump rope!
The internet, it’s open.
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
PUBLIC SCHOOL is a group of creative folk working on the east side of Austin. 2 photographers and 5 graphic designers doing our best to show you everyone's best.
