UpCycled

Somewhere along our pasts come to meet us, again and again. I often go on about the fantastic people in my life, and my past, and the history and experiences we have together having dynamic if not levels of vibrancy in our own personal growth. Years ago I met Christina and was lucky enough to spend a lot of time getting to know her before she moved back out east. Years went by, and as one could imagine, we re-connected through Facebook and ideas were passed on for a Mothers gift, so she could share her creations to the World. Creating a logo that represents taking action, yet keeping a simple, elegance in relationship to bike products being passed on by previous users was a tricky one, but, like the energy cycling can bring to ones soul, I got switched on, it all made sense!

*A mother-daughter team on a mission!

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Everyone has passion. My mothers happens to be creating all forms of art. Her travels have brought much inspiration to her work throughout her life-long career. Her recent rendezvous to Jamaica have brought her a new love of up-cycling EVERYTHING! Bicycle inner tubes are often discarded by bike shops to end up in a land fill, but this durable, soft, leather-like materialis perfect for her latest obsession... UPCYCLE Couture!

*(website direct).

www.upcycleforever.com

The PDF we never knew...

Just a fast note here as i am rushing out the door for my day job.

Has anyone ever noticed how terrible Acrobat's save as jpeg option is in regards to end raster? Not much for settings even with Professional. I found some very old drafts for my portfolio and now stripping it all down as i need to build up my portfolio right proper finally. guess it matters not how much work i do, or the variety, if no one can see it or i do not represent it well in terms of presentation, online, or in hard copies.

Stone Design

Client: Stone Design

Product: Logo

Year: 2006

Site: http://sdconcrete.com/

STONE DESIGN...... THE POLISHED CONCRETE SPECIALISTS!

Serving the Greater Vancouver area and home Based in Victoria, B.C. Canada, proudly achieved acknowledgment for some of the most impressive concrete floors in North America. They specialize in creating one of a kind solutions for both residential and commercial applications. Customer focused, process oriented, and technology driven, they demand the highest standards of integrity in all aspects of our business, and understand that teamwork is what helps make a successful company. With a goal is to educate you about their process, help with the design stage, and deliver a beautiful floor that is unmatched in durability Stone Design  is one of B.C. best upcoming custom Stone design companies with a serious Green interest and innovative approach to your next project, big or small.

For precast inquiries, please go to: www.szolyd.com

Red, Blue, no wait, Red...

What is your favourite colour? In an earlier post i declared the colour code issues with China and Canada, or at least my specs sheets. Well here is a direct example of what i meant, in all the glory of my old 1.6 mega pixel Kodak Camera:) Sadly, for the 2 years i designed these products i failed to properly document them for a portfolio, on account of there was just so much work and not nearly enough time to think of a personal goal, a solid reflection of over 300 designs. The London Drugs was found on a bike in Victoria BC, somewhere near the Ferry while waiting to go back home from a very cold weekend of snow and slushy BEER with Big E, one of the two owners of the previously Tofino's Raven Skate Shop.

Now Mr. Black there, well he never made the cut, and not for reason of everyone wanting to be Mr.Black and Mr. Pink getting all whiny again. No, this was due to licensing and another name was already bought and paid for. what did i do? Well i did what any self respecting creative would do, i blurred the copy, added the new name and kept the artwork i believed to be the best for the product. Yes, that is my face on over 300,000 bikes out there on the streets of the world- it was bound to happen. I still think the Top Bike companies are missing out on some great possibilities for design on bikes, but their getting it a bit more now...

Bikes everywhere!

One of the most challenging positions I have follow up on, by either a staff member of as Peg DEsign, as been that of designing and painting for the bike industry. To this date, i still see a constant flow of my designs at any given day throughout the week. Now, i also designed a fair amount of snowboards for some of the same companies and have never seen a single board with my designs on them, well maybe a few...

The North Shore News had this on the front cover this past summer, and it blew me away that that particular bike was being raced, and that she did rather well with it. It was a price point of $259.00 back in 2002- 2004 and i think i was changed (frame wise) after then, so the bike basically was a low cost casual mountain bike, intended for weekend campgrounds, not a triathlon! I was very proud of this woman when i read this.

The above are some of the designs that made it out. The Cove bike was ridden by Trevor Porter, now currently with Kona for the 2003 World Cup in Scotland. The Graphics has incorporated sponsor logos and Rider names to flow along the frames curved design. The back end was a prototype at the time and so it was left with me to play around with while it was unfinished. The job was simple and i was never really paid for it, but Trevor did rebuild my front forks:) The Antelope was a fun set of graphics that was never used. The base bikes came in with an exist paint scheme that had two tone splits the client liked
and so i had to design 6 bikes all with blockers. Not many companies save Specialized, Giant and Trek use this technique, even with the newer printing methods available.

This is still an industry i would like to be more involved with and will be setting up my own dirt machine with new paint and matching graphics, which of course will be presented later on this blog.