I just finished this sweet fixed gear bicycle project and I wanted to share with you all. Last fall when I was in London visiting friends, we were walking through Brixton looking at bikes and overheard a French man use the phrase “Le Fixie.” Ever since, we wanted to build Le Fixie. With a little help from the awesome people over at Houston Fixed Gear, I put together a sweet 90′s GT Pulse with the triple-triangle frame. I designed the custom decals and had them printed by the good people at Sticker Robot.

I also have to shout out to Aaron Panone who designed and manufactured the badass track chainring. Aaron has been getting a lot of coverage on Core77 lately for his sweet design work, and I am a huge fan. See details about the bike below.

If you want to get ahold of a LeFixie decal set for your ride, please reference this post and send a paypal payment of $10 to me at evantwyford [at] gmail or stop by and visit the folks at Houston Fixed Gear at 2309 Dunlavy in Houston Texas. Ride safe!

Frame: GT Pulse
Fork: Lugged Tange
Stem: Vintage Modolo OXO
Bars: Nitto Heat-treated Drops
Crank Arms: IRD
Chain Ring: aarn 144BCD 47t Track Chainring LIMITED EDITION designed by Aaron Panone
Pedals: MKS GR9
Seat Post: Miche Supertype
Seat Post Clamp: Thomson
Saddle: San Marco Concor Supercorsa
Tires: 700 x 25c Vittoria Randonneur

OHH YEAAHHH!!! There are some things from the 80′s that you just cant get away with anymore. Smoking indoors, pants tucked into socks, and of course the 80′s Spin. Not that many people know about the 80′s Spin, but it is something that I have begun to notice more and more while watching vintage movies and commercials from this period. What IS the 80′s Spin?? Well, if you watch closely, you can sometimes spot funloving teenagers do a Michael Jackson-like spin just out of nowhere! Yeah! You know what Im talking about.

So, I dont know where this behavior started and if it was widespread, or just isolated to TV and movie actors, but it eventually branched out into a wide range of other strange motions such as walking backwards, sitting on chairs backwards, jumping in the air and clicking your heels together, and conveying onesself, physically, in an all around squirrelly manner. Makes me want to get some stonewashed denim and a pair of hightops!

This Camaro ad from 1985 is so full of 80′s Spins, its ridiculous. Also see if you can spot the TWO 80′s Spins by Michael J Fox in the Diet Pepsi ad below. If you know of any other great examples of the 80′s Spin, post links in the comments!

Lots of new logo and flyer work coming through lately. This is in progress for DJ RPEG in NYC. I hope to see this in print sometime soon! For this one I experimented with doing very hard geometry by hand and then scanning and vectorizing it, for a more imperfect look. Looks waay cooler than doing it all perfect in illustator. As my good friend Fernando says, “hand drawn is ALWAYS the way to go.”

I just got back from a great trip to NY. One of the best. I got some tattoo work, met up with tons of old friends, had some amazing food and saw some cool sights. DJ/Producer friend Lacey YoungBlood showed me around, and we hit up Public Assembly as well as the famous Webster Hall. Heres a picture she snapped of her logo I produced in its natural habitat.

This was a fun logo project I did for my friend, electro DJ/producer Goombotic. Check out Goombotic on Soundcloud, or have a listen to my favorite, his remix of Breakbot’s funky Shades of Black.

Shades of Black (Goombotic Bootleg Mix) by GOOMBOTIC

Putting together a quick logo concept for the WWF. Here it is! Support the World Wildlife Fund!!!

So I just got back from HATCH in Bozeman Montana, and this year’s participants and events were outstanding. I had a great time and met some really talented and inspirational people. One of the artists that I had the opportunity to work with was Matt Sullivan, Creative Director from The Difference, a managemant consulting service, where he specializes in graphic capture for team meetings and events. He captured my presentation and panel discussion with the amazing graphic below!! See some of Matt’s other work from HATCH here.

I did these renderings for a class photoshop demo today and was pretty psyched about them, so I thought I would post them up here. Snakeskin high-top shoes are the hot new thing apparently. Enjoy.

I’m very proud to have been invited to speak and participate in HATCH in Bozeman Montana this year. HATCH is an amazing event that will go from Oct. 6-8th 2011 and will consist of a series of films, concerts, panels, keynote speeches, workshops and showcases. I am scheduled to give a talk entitled ‘Designing a Better World,’ on Friday October 7th. If you are in the area I encourage you to stop by and say hi! The list of speakers and participants this year looks really outstanding and I am looking forward to meeting a bunch of really interesting people.

Find out more information on the HATCH website.

I have been working on a few new logos and flyers recently and pushing a lot of techniques to try to get a more vintage look to my graphics. I wanted to post up the work I did for my DJ friend Lacey Youngblood. She wanted a similar look to the logo work I had done for Haters Make Us FAMOUS, although my work has evolved a lot since then and I was eager to do everything custom on this one and not use any pre-existing fonts or type treatments.

The original idea was sketched out with pencil and markers and then afterward I began to build the pieces in illustrator. The text for ‘YOUNG’ was pretty straightforward vector work and we went through quite a few variations before we settled on what was ultimately the most readable.

The handwritten ‘blood’ portion of the logo was done with a Tria marker and then scanned. The resulting scan was then livetraced in illustrator and by carefully adjusting the livetrace parameters I was able to give the text the more liquid appearance that we were going for.