bikes and things

Fairly productive morning so far working on some posters for The Chequers.

I’m away. An iChat conversation earlier today.

Well, were made perhaps. A great Flickr set of images from the 50’s showing how records were manufactured – looks fairly labour intensive in those days. A little more info here.

Lovely little video clip visualising the journeys taken by Boris bike users. Worth reading the full article which accompanies it over at New Scientist.

Via @RichardBattye.

Utter madness how arrogant these guys are. They can do no wrong and literally make the rules up as they go along.

Shocking undertaking move from this arrogant plonker with a hint of punishment pass.

Then this dodgy left turn from another pleb in blue. The cyclist really needs to grow a pair and stand up for himself though.

I’m surprised this one hasn’t made it to the awesome Cats are assholes Tumblr yet but in the meantime enjoy this attention seeking cat.

Erik Spiekermann on the ideal office in terms of layout, which he sketches out so beautifully. He comes at it from the idea of a design studio but could equally apply to many other types of office or creative spaces. Highly convincing as a diagram as well as capturing the human traits of designers and office workers with the aim of trying to get them to communicate more – he’s pretty entertaining too.

A bit more about Spiekermann. From creative.arte.tv

Erik Spiekermann is one of the most known designer and typographer. After leaving university without a degree (in art history), he worked for different design offices in London and finally started his own design agency Metadesign in Berlin with Florian Fischer and Dieter Heil. Together with offices in London, San Franzisco and Zurich, Metadesign was responsible for Adobe, Apple, Audi and Volkswagen, as well as for the Berlin Transport Services BVG, and for the corporate identiy of the capital city. In 1990 Spiekermann founded together with his wife Joan and the British designer Neville Brody, the Fontfoundry Fontshop International. He established the FontFont Bibliothek Spiekermann where he published the well known fonts FF Meta, FF Unit, FF Info as well as many others. In 2000 Spiekermann left Metadesign and is today responsible for Bosch, Otto Bock and the ZDF with his office EdenSpiekermann in Berlin and Amsterdam. For From Sketch Erik Spiekermann draws his concept of a perfect communicative office.

via Lawrence

After my post the other day about the variety of bizarre notes we encountered on our trip, Mathew sent me a series of links to Flickr showing his own collection of signs daubed in paint or scrawled with a marker pen – entitled SME signage

The conversation then turned to those NO PARKING signs you see scrawled everywhere. Sure enough he’d been collecting those too. The ones you see on the front of garage doors and where they ran out space by starting the letters off to large.

Which also goes to prove my rule that if you think you’ve done something original on the internet you’re wrong. Someone has probably done it before you, and done a better job. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it though.

Not such a shocking revelation when you think about it but great to see a picture from London illustrate this so succinctly. Still want a Bullit Cargo bike as pictured in the image. Just think how many cars would be needed to for that many people!

Image © Carlton Reid.

#bikeboom pic negates almost every wonky stereotype about people who ride bikes in London

27 folks on bikes: some in helmets, most not; some in hi-vis, most not; some on fixies, most not. None on the pavement, none going through the red light. Two ‘cycle chic’ women; otherwise mostly men, but not one in Lycra. A pair of sandals but not worn by the only hippie. Perhaps oddly there’s not one folding bike to be seen, and no Boris bikes either. (And why is cycling so white?)

Along with this is the fantastic image from 1991 commissioned by Münster City Planning Department (interestingly my sister was born here) which has done the rounds again. They showed three images which showed the space required to transport 72 people by various modes of transport. The image speaks for itself really.