..:: DIG THIS ::..

Via highsnobiety.com

Once again artist Barry McGee has worked on a project with Italian bike brand Cinelli. For 2011 they will be introducing a limited edition version of their Unicanitor bike saddle. The saddle comes in black and features a graphic by the artist on top.

See more images HERE

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Via PSFK:
Mission Bicycle is a unique company based in San Francisco that sells custom fixed gear bikes. Each bicycle is made to order from a combination of stock parts. They recently opened up a physical retail location with the design help of Greyscaled and Adaptive Path.

As the company used to only exist online, the shop was designed to mimic the look and user experience of the Mission Bicycle website – giving physical presence to a digital brand. Through text displays, logical instructions, and product displays that look like exploded diagrams, customers are easily guided through the process of creating their own unique bike.

Mission Bicycle Retail Experience from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

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After a month of online voting, the winner of the 2009 People’s Design Award was announced last night at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s fourth annual National Design Awards gala. From of 198 entries, the honor went to Trek Bicycles’ Lime bike.

See all the nominees here.

Read the full story here!

..:: GIANT ::..

Mike Giant Interview from David Mongan on Vimeo.

I have done a spotlight on this dude before,
so if you follow this blog, you guys should know who he is by now!

Go check out Rebel 8, support this guy!

Here is a really great look at him just being him.

One of San Francisco's finest doing what he does.

ENJOY!

..:: LANCE X ART ::..

(Above: Lance Armstrong, Nike CEO Mark Parker, and Shepard Fairey)

Kinda excited for this.

Lance is a part of what seems like a pretty cool thing.
Launching on July 16th, STAGES, An exhibition curated to reflect the personal art collecting tastes of Lance himself, the exhibition was developed by Nike to illustrate LIVESTRONG’s expanded global outreach in the fight against cancer and as a means of engaging the creative community in the shared struggle. The show will feature nearly thirty original artworks by a diverse roster of emerging and established artists including ED RUSCHA, RAYMOND PETTIBON, KAWS, ROSSON CROW, JR, TARYN SIMON, CHRISTOPHER WOOL, JULES DE BALINCOURT, SHEPARD FAIREY, JOSE PARLA, AARON YOUNG, MARC NEWSON, KENNY SCHARF, OS GEMEOS, YOSHITOMO NARA, ERIC WHITE, and DZINE, to name just a few. To highlight the event, Lance will be riding a special series of “art bikes” in the Tour de France created in collaboration with TREK and designed by none other than modern art and design masters MARC NEWSON, TAKASHI MURAKAMI, and DAMIEN HIRST.

Should be a really good tour this year!

..:: LEGENDS ::..

SO if you read this blog on any type of regular basis, you will see a trend as far as the people I spotlight. All of them are influential in their fields and have gotten there doing it the way they wanted to.

And this guy is no different.
MIKE GIANT, is so amazing at what he does
and he does it all.

From Tattooing, to T-shirt design, to graffiti, to fine art gallery pieces, the guy has a bag of tricks so huge, its silly.