Hacksaws Challenge 2011

It's that time of year again, yes you've guessed it's 'HACKSAWS CHALLENGE' race day tomorrow (5th November). As a collaboration with the magnificent ilsiogneur we have designed and screen printed these t shirts and a super limmeted handfull of cycling musettes as prizes for the intrepid competitors.

Check out the HACKSAWS CHALLENGE web site for more info on race start times etc.

Artcrank London 2011

This friday sees the return of Artcrank to London. We are pleased to again be an official sponcor for the event as well as myself contributing a print for the show.

We are presently very busy screen printing editions for nine other contibuting artists. We have also screen printed the official poster for the show, seen here. 

If you don't know what Artcrank is all about then think of it as a 'Poster Party For Bike People'.

Josh and I will be at Look Mum No Hands from some time in the afternoon on friday so look forward to seeing you there. 

www.artcrank.com

Whiteduck X Boneshaker

Welcome to the start of something wonderful and exciting, the creative teaming up of screen print wizards, White Duck, and beautiful bicycle magazine mongers, Boneshaker. Here is an A2, 1 colour screen printed poster featuring a beautiful Rob Draper illustration made exclusively for Boneshaker magazine, and the first in a series of prints that are to be produced in collaboration between White Duck and the fine fellows at Boneshaker.  Produced as a limited 1st edition of just 100, onto a 270gsm acid-free and archival stock, each print will be signed and numbered by the artist and dual-embossed with the Boneshaker and White Duck insignias.  Exquisitely realised and beautifully crafted, we present to you the first poster produced under the White Duck x Boneshaker banner.

Visit our shop to get your hands on one of these lovelies.

Bonshaker | issue 4 Launch Party

Well here we are and issue 4 of the magnificent Boneshaker Magazine is almost upon us. The lauch will be happening on the 25th of this month in Biristol. Details are on the flyer oposite. 

There will be lots to see at the launch, including some rather tasty Screen Prints as part of a collaboration between ourselves Boneshaker and illustrator Rob Draper. Also I am rather excited to be showing some of my Bicycle Photography, so come along and say hello.

www.boneshakermag.com

Whiteduck | Bristol Riders Series

This is a series of three, two colour screen prints which are currently on show as part of the Bristol Cycle Festival Exhibition at the Howies gallery space in Bristol. 

I took the original photographs at the finnish line of last years 'Hacksaws Challenge' bike race from the harbour side in Bristol to Queens Square in Bath and back again. I am in the process of re-vamping our online shop, and once that is done these, along with a few more bits and pieces will be available to buy.

Cobble Wobble | 2010

Last sunday saw the second ever 'Cobble Wobble' bicycle race in Frome sponsored by Charge Bikes. There were categories for all ages from the under 14's to the over 50's. It was a great day out, much fun was had. We printed up some t-shirts for the event and they will be for sale on the Cobble Wobble web site also. I am already looking forward to next year's event and Josh is planning to give it a go next time.

Well done to Chris Akrigg for winning the overall Charge Bikes King of the Cobbles in a astonishing time of 21.510 seconds.... Wowsers!!

See all my photos of the event on the WhiteDuck flickr page:

COBBLE WOBBLE | 2010 Photos

www.cobblewobble.co.uk

WHITEDUCK | ARTCRANK

Bikes are the world’s most fun, accessible way to get around. Posters are the world’s most fun, accessible art form. ARTCRANK brings them together.

The first-ever ARTCRANK London show will take place on Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18 in the world-famous confines of Look Mum No Hands! The show features original artwork by UK artists, priced to let you put down a pint or three and still take home all your favorite posters.

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This is our contribution. It will be for sale at a price of £15 at the show, then if there are any left over I will put them up on our shop after the show.

It is a 3 colour screen print on 270 gsm GFSmith Colorplan Bright White Stock. The main image is made from two photographs I took at last years 'Hacksaws Challenge' bike race (Bristol to Bath and back again).

I am so pleased with the way these came out, especially after we managed to print them on perhaps the most humid day of the year, which played hell with the paper stretching fractionally along the grain. Still managed to get an edition of 30 with the registration of the three colours bang on.

Artcrank | London 2010

Bikes are the world’s most fun, accessible way to get around. Posters are the world’s most fun, accessible art form. ARTCRANK brings them together.

The first-ever ARTCRANK London show will take place on Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18 in the world-famous confines of Look Mum No Hands! The show features original artwork by UK artists, priced to let you put down a pint or three and still take home all your favorite posters.

Artists

Adam Dedman • Andrew Diprose • Benaiah Matheson • Chris Thornley • Daniel Mackie • Emiliano Mendieta Band • Graham Pilling • Huvi Design Studio • Jonathan Hall • Laura-Kate Chapman • Lee Hasler • Marc Aspinall • Martin Tomsky • Matt Giordano Bibby • Matt Joyce • Matt Oxborrow • Matthew Slaymaker •Matthew Taylor • Norman Hayes • Ollie Munden • Ollie Shaw • Peter Carleton • Peter Locke • Pista Collective • Rebecca Cleal • Sarai Vardi • Simon Cook • Somhairle MacDonald • Susie Lowe • Vicky Scott

Bristol Cycle Festival | Exhibition

We are pleased to be involved in this exhibition, opening on the 10th and running for two weeks at the Howies Gallery above their shop in Bristol. The show coincides with the first Bristol Cycle Festival.

On show will be the 100 cycling caps from the Thinking Caps project, which will be auctioned of to raise money for the Bristol Bike Project and the Bristol Bike Project will themselves be exhibiting a collection of photographs and illustrations. The brilliant Bone Shaker magazine will be exhibiting a collection of work from its contributors. Also work from Peskimo, No Gears and ourselves.

A very bicycle themed event with lots going on. We will be there at the opening on the 10th so come along and say hello.

Matt Taylor | A Beautiful Machine

Beautiful indeed... We printed this edition of 24, 1 colour lovely's for Brighton based illustrator Matt Taylor. It will be for sale at the forth coming 'A Beautiful Machine' event at the Howies shop in Bristol next week.

A Beautiful Machine | McFaulStudio | howies

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that – oh so right!

Beginning Friday March 26th McFaulStudio and howies have curated a two-week event of art, talk and ride based above the howies store in Bristol. We have reached out to those who ride, those who allow us to ride…and those who want us to ride, bringing us all together in a carnival of bicycle. Those who design and those who draw, those who paint or shoot or sew, those who talk or make, those who fix and those who nurture are all involved as they all share a love of A Beautiful Machine.

Over 50 artists from around the Globe. 15 incredible speakers. 1 Bicycle treasure hunt, 1 rather special Bicycle auction and 1 Critical Mass. Two weeks in Bristol. A lot of fun.

Let the good times roll!