Tag: sketches
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CrossBow Tension Bicycle Concepts by Clandestine Design Group
If you are a fan of Buckminster Fuller, you are no doubt familiar with the principle of Tensegrity (or tensional integrity), which is “based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other and the prestressed tensioned members…
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Bike designs by Cero
Cero is a Barcelona based multidisciplinary design firm based with a focus on product design, engineering, graphic design, and programming. I recently discovered them by way of their Behance page, which features a few bike projects ranging from freeride and XC mountain bikes to an urban electric folding bike. On each of the Behance project…
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Design and development of the Cylo bike
It is likely that you have seen the CYLO 1 bike, designed by former Nike design director Eric Duvauchelle and his brother Antoine in collaboration with Arro-Studio. The bike was covered earlier this year by several of the big design and gadget blogs and was featured on the cover of the October Wired Magazine issue. With this post though, I…
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Bike sketches from 5 different designers
I didn’t get a chance to post anything last week, and this week is shaping up to be just as busy. Quickly though, I want to share a few sketches, created by five different designers, that caught my attention lately. Concept sketching is my favorite part of every new project (good because I have been…
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Bike sketches- fast and slow
The deadline to submit entries for the ISUDA Bike Share Design Competition passed while I was traveling home from Asia over the weekend. We didn’t receive as many entries as the last design competition staged here at Bicycle Design, but it is still going to take a while to discuss them with the jury and…
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Development of the new Orbea Ordu time trial bike
Ronan Bariou is a product designer for Orbea, and his Behance portfolio page provides a glimpse into the design work that goes into bikes from the company. The latest project that he has uploaded is the new 2013 Orbea Ordu time trial bike, and he shares some of the sketches and CAD models from the…
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Road bike sketches by Ilya Vostrikov
Ilya Vostrikov is a Russian industrial designer who is currently working in Germany as an automotive designer. According to his blog, he has a role in “development of body kits and interior design for Porsche, BMW, Aston Martin, and Mini.” As you might expect, his blog features no shortage of car drawings, but he also…
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Trek Visual Brand Language Sculpture
I was on vacation at the beach with my family last week, and took a break from this blog (and the internet as a whole). I have some catching up to do, and a lot of bike design content to sort though and share, but I’ll start with a very quick post today. Michael Hammond…
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Three student design projects
Richard Heath is an industrial design intern in Sydney, Australia. He is attempting to design an alternative to e-bikes currently on the market and has started a blog to document his development process. He is in the early conceptual sketching stage right now, but it should be fun to follow his blog to see how…
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Bent Ply bike sketches
A few weeks ago I posted a bike, sent to me by a reader, which featured a frame partially constructed from laminated wood. Peter from Velo Vision recently sent me an email and identified the mystery bike as the work of James Coleman, a design student at Loughborough University in the UK. When I first…
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thumbnail sketches
Today I am posting a scanned page from my sketchbook. These are quick “thumbnail” sketches of mountain bikes. Since I sketched all of these just for fun, they don’t all look like they would necessarily work in the real world. Come to think of it, the furniture and lighting ideas that I sketch everyday as…