Evan Twyford http://www.evantwyford.com Evan Twyford - Design Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:13:45 +0000 en hourly 1 Hello Cricket! http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/04/07/hello-cricket/ http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/04/07/hello-cricket/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:01:28 +0000 admin http://www.evantwyford.com/?p=1086

Well the time as finally come and after 7 years working on vehicle design at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, I said goodbye this week and I’m off on my next adventure. First stop is Cricket Trailers. I have been involved in a few aspects of the Cricket’s development over the past few years. My friend, principal designer, Garrett Finney was a former member of our design team at NASA and has done an incredible job putting together what may be the lightest, greenest, and certainly the coolest mobile habitat on the road. Its soo light in fact, that it can be towed using the vehicle you already own! I’m really excited to start at Cricket and help Garrett grow the business. Ever since their feature on Travel Channel’s Extreme RV’s, which you can watch here, orders have been blowing up!!! So expect to see Crickets popping up everywhere over the next few months!

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An Internship with NASA from heck yes design on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/03/27/nasa-internship/feed/ 0 Airbrush Action http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/03/18/airbrush-action/ http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/03/18/airbrush-action/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:46:46 +0000 admin http://www.evantwyford.com/?p=1068 I recently began learning to airbrush under one of my old art teachers from when I was a kid, Houston artist Charlie Brown. Charlie is a skilled airbrush artist, designer and technical illustrator who has done work for Nasa, Exxon, Schlumberger, Pennzoil, Compaq Computer, Coca Cola Foods, Minute Maid Orange Juice and lots more. Hes an old-school guy with lots of hilarious stories and I have been learning a lot. I just finished an introductory six weeks of basic exercises, I picked up a couple of Iwata airbrushes on ebay and I have been practicing a ton. I have wanted an Iwata HP-B ever since I was ten years old, and I finally got one! Here is my first practice piece. I messed it up somewhere in there doing the reflections and some masking tape tore up some of the acrylic, so I called it a day. But this is very much in the direction I want to go with my work. I’ll post more here soon!

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I was surprised that these awesome videos from NASA had so few plays on YouTube. Someone really needs to step up the PR because these missions look so exciting! Below is a CGI video of the MMSEV concept, and below that, astronaut and project lead Mike Gernhardt gives a quick tour of our MMSEV mockup during his 3-day stay in the vehicle.

]]> http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/02/13/nasa-space-exploration-vehiclesev-is-now-the-multi-mission-space-exploration-vehiclemmsev/feed/ 0 Le Fixie and GT Pulse http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/01/17/le-fixie-and-gt-pulse/ http://www.evantwyford.com/2012/01/17/le-fixie-and-gt-pulse/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:27:01 +0000 admin http://www.evantwyford.com/?p=1029 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

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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!

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]]> http://www.evantwyford.com/2011/12/05/rpeg/feed/ 0 YoungBlood at Webster Hall http://www.evantwyford.com/2011/11/20/youngblood-at-webster-hall/ http://www.evantwyford.com/2011/11/20/youngblood-at-webster-hall/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:28:10 +0000 admin http://www.evantwyford.com/?p=994 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.

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Shades of Black (Goombotic Bootleg Mix) by GOOMBOTIC

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

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