My little brother has been taller than me since grade school. But, he’ll never be as old as I am. Hence the celebratory AthosBot in his honor.
Cheers J
Cindy’s city bike arrived yesterday (a Velorbis Victoria Classic of Danish design, built in Germany and shipped through Boston via The Dutch Bicycle Company) just in time to ride over and vote in Saint Paul on a spectacular fall morning. Then a stylish and casual ride to work. What a way for a designer to travel! For more cycle style inspiration check out Copenhagencyclechic.com
The AIGA continues its tradition of organizing the creation and distribution of Get Out the Vote posters. This year a small number have been printed as a limited edition set. However, each poster in the collection, which currently stands at 313, can be downloaded as a PDF allowing you to print your own favorites. There is still time for members to contribute a design and if even I can pull it off (above) I know you can do a smashing design.
My notes from design camp. One spread for the weekend, how much can I cram onto a page? Apparently this much. (majority of which were doodled during Chase’s which was awesome)
Design Camp was fun. We had an insanely nice cabin (3 rooms, 3 bathrooms, 6 beds for two people, so we adopted some more). Met some cool people. Gave a pretty good workshop (3 times!). Came up with some world changing ideas. (well maybe, we were drinking) And managed to get some sleep. (Which considering the two weeks I’ve had, was amazing for me.)
Todd asked for a post about design camp, so this will have to do.
This weekend the Minnesota State Fairgrounds plays host to the MidAmerica Vintage Motorcycle Auction. Get a look at these restored vintage hotties now cuz the link will probably die or get moved after this weekend. Sadly, I’ll be there with my camera, not my checkbook. The Norton above will be wet with my tears.
The New York Times recently published a short slide show online noting the increase in urban cyclists and featuring four fashion archetypes. Roanne (above) is a graphic designer so she has two claims on cool. With the Fall cycling fashion window closing fast (in Minnesota at least) you need to put together an outfit, jump on your favorite bike (you do have more than one right?) and be seen on all the most fashionable bike paths around town. Hurry, Winter fashion is much less… well fashionable.
Now that I think about it we should put together a Twin Cities version of this. Send us your photo and description and we’ll see if we can’t show the big apple where serious cycle-chic lives.
Stick Up for What You Believe In
Representatives from RedBlackBrown were in full effect at the MIMA Summit last Wednesday here in Minneapolis. In fact, we were going to sponsor the coffee bar but that was going to be really expensive so instead we sponsored the sticker on the coffee bar – which after choosing the self-apply option was quite reasonable.
It was a pretty inspiring event. You can check out some details on the MIMA Summit – FEED site. Today RBB is at AIGA Design Camp. I wonder if we’ll sponsor anything?