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.
…we’re putting our ideas into action. Bringing sustainable agriculture to Alabama has huge implications for shaping a positive future for the economic and social fabric of the rural South. By building these bikes and taking this ride, we’re hoping to embody the positive change that can take place in this country. We’re taking action as a way to share the Alabamboo story; I know we’re graphic designers and so we should probably just design a marketing campaign or something, right? Well, maybe. But riding bikes is more fun. More powerful. Making stuff? Sure. Doing things? Certainly. – Nicole
Also, if you are interested in building your own bike and becoming part of COMMON Cycles they’re accepting applications here.
