Poppy Gall Design Studio Blog » bicycle art

Happy Holidays!

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:13:39 +0000

Don’t you love this card designed by my creative cycling friend, Ann? Have a wonderful weekend everyone. My studio is closed today. I’m taking a few ski runs, decorating my tree and starting my wrapping!

A Nice Leap!

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:31:15 +0000

Enjoy your weekend!

By Jan Balet

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Design Inspiration – Bicycle House Marker

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:52:24 +0000

Instead of using a standard address marker to point the way to their Vermont home, an avid cycling couple transformed this old bicycle into a welcoming and playful sign, which they placed at the end of their long dirt driveway. What a great idea!

To see another cool use for old bike parts click here.

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Design Inspiration – Announcing the Birth of a Tricycle

admin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:34:24 +0000

This poster was created by Allan Peters for ARTCRANK Minneapolis – a poster show for people who love biking. When Allan got this project, he and his wife had just found out that they were going to have a baby. He wanted to do something that mixed that joy with his joy of biking.

Click here to see more interesting photos of Peters’ poster printing process.

To see more bicycle inspiration click here.

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Color Inspiration – Copenhagen Bicycles

admin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:22:51 +0000

My photographer friend Mary spent a few days poking around Copenhagen last weekend while visiting with her daughter. It’s no surprise that bicycles caught her eye and were captured by her camera lens, as Copenhagen has a booming bicycle culture that has reached worldwide recognition via the Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog.

The grit, graffiti and rust in Mary’s photos portrays a laid back urban environment. Enhanced by sensational colors and textures, they are very powerful pictures. Thanks so much Mary for sharing these radiant photos with us!

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Color Inspiration – Bicycle Fork Flower

admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:25:01 +0000

Someone with ingenuity and skill with a welding torch created this fanciful flower (or sun?) made from discarded bicycle forks. A friend snapped this photo and sent it to me knowing how I love bicycle art and rusty objects. She spotted it in East Burke, Vermont while exploring the amazing Kingdom Trails mountain biking system.

photo: Ann Howard (thanks!)

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Design Inspiration – Bicycle Poster Competition

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:31:30 +0000

I heard about The London Transport Museum’s exhibit of bicycle posters on the Bikejuju blog a few weeks ago. I apologize for being a little “off the back” in sharing the news with you, but if you get a chance to pedal down to Covent Garden in the next few days to see the show I should think it would be worth it!

The museum asked illustrators to draw the links between cycling in London, environmental issues, health and fun. Fifty of the 1,000-plus entries are now on display at the museum until August 22. Here’s a sampling of the posters…

Spokes and Leaves by Mia Nilsson

Cycle Revolution by Frances Castle

Good for You, Green For London by Rachel Lillie

Bicycle Belle by David Hughes

Life Cycles by Kevin Ward

London Cloud Ride by Julien Decaudin

Go Green by Galia Bernstein

Super-Super Highways by Maddalena Cauraro

See a larger selection of posters on the Guardian site here. If you like this post, you might also like this.

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Design Inspiration – The New Yorker Cover

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:21:05 +0000

As my regular readers know, I’m a sucker for The New Yorker magazine covers. This weeks cover, a painting by J.J. Sempe, is wonderfully titled “The Joys and Torments of Solitude”.

Next week I will be in Salt Lake City at the Outdoor Retailer trade show meeting with clients, visiting with old friends and checking out the latest and greatest new outdoor gear. I’ll be back to blogging the following week.

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Design Inspiration – Camper Bike

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:50:13 +0000

Kevin Cyr’s habitable fusion of bicycle and camper, titled Camper Bike, is a functioning sculptural piece that has influenced his series of paintings. To see more of Cyr’s works click here.

Kevin Cyr’s habitable fusion of bicycle and camper is a functioning sculptural piece and has influenced a series of paintings. Camper Bike certainly puts a new spin on bicycle camping!

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Design Inspiration – Too Small To Fail

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:34:02 +0000

As a lover of bicycles and an entrepreneur, this impactful screen-printed poster resonates with me. It would look great in my new, soon-to-be-completed, studio!

It’s available from Aesthetic Apparatus for $25.

If you like this, you might also like this.

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