Von Joe Hall • 19th June 2013 • Geposted in Art & Design
This July marks the 100th edition of the Tour de France. As part of the celebrations Rapha have commissioned ten illustrators and designers to create artworks commemorating the 100 Tours that will have taken place since 1903.
Broken down into ten decades from 1903 to 2013, each work represents a specific era of the race. Calling on well-established illustrators and graphic designers from Europe and North America, the collection captures the diversity, beauty, suffering and cultural significance of cycling’s grandest race.
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Von Guest Author • 26th April 2013 • Geposted in Art & Design
© Olycom
Words by Simon Lamb
"The photograph is a guillotine blade that seizes one dazzling instant in eternity.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
On my desk at home I have a box of photographs labelled Cycling Photographs to Frame. There are 87 prints, scans, magazine cuttings and photographs in the box, and each one I have decided at some point was my favourite cycling image, good enough at least to want framed. I don't have one favourite cycling photograph; I have 87. But for the sake of this article, I've whittled it down to four to choose from.
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Von Joe Hall • 25th March 2013 • Geposted in Art & Design
The Victoria and Albert Museum are curating an evening celebrating the diverse design culture inspired by the bicycle. Ruth Lie, Friday Late Programme Coordinator, told us a little bit about the event:
“I'd always wanted to do something about bicycles, and the way in which they've influenced the design world, especially in the aftermath of the Olympics and with it taking off as a more acceptable mainstream culture. I had also got a little obsessed with bikes over the last few years, researching into the geometry of bikes, brands, shops and framebuilders.
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Von Gem Atkinson • 14th March 2013 • Geposted in Art & Design
Louison Bobet stares doggedly ahead, hands clenched in the drops, his thousand-yard stare willing the bike forward. His Bottechia teammate and compatriot, Pierrot Barbotin follows dutifully on his wheel. With no time to glance at the breathtaking coastal scenery, the duo increase their efforts and pass over the Capo Berta, dropping their final two breakaway companions who remained from an earlier larger escape group from a move upon Passo Turchino.
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Von Joe Hall • 11th March 2013 • Geposted in Art & Design
Riccardo Guasco
Back in December we launched an illustration competition with publisher Thames & Hudson. The aim of the competition was to find an illustrator for the eighth book in a series of city cycling guides, which will be published later this year. The city in question is Milan, and we invited entrants to devise a single image that showed Milan from a city-cycling perspective. We had some fantastic submissions and the judges, comprising of folks from Thames & Hudson, Rapha, the authors of the guides and Antonio Colombo, head of Cinelli and Columbus, took longer than expected to pick a winner.
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Von Jeremy Dunn • 29th January 2013 • Geposted in Art & Design
photography by Emily Maye
Take a look through Emily Maye's ever growing collection of cycling photography and you'll find wildly different photos on the subject. A background in cinema is easily recognizable through her ability to capture action as well as the all the goings-on associated with the daily hum of bike racing. She shines in her newfound work with cyclocross and offers a fresh eye on the sport and its characters. Emily's passion for cross, however, was put on hold back in late December 2012 met she up with Team Sky on the island of Mallorca, Spain to shoot photos of the team for Rapha. See the Team Sky Lookbook. Not only was this the team's debut ride in the clothing, but it was her first time on the back of a motorbike. We sat down with Emily to get her take on shooting with Team Sky and the upcoming Cyclocross World Championships.
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Von Joe Hall • 9th January 2013 • Geposted in Art & Design
The Centraal Museum in Utrecht in the Netherlands is currently hosting a comprehensive exhibition of denim and its impact on the world. Displaying examples of blue jeans as fashion, art, craftsmanship, technology and more, it looks at more than 350 years of this most simple but culturally important textile. As the blue jeans catalogue testifies:
“An iconic street symbol that can be found in almost every wardrobe: the blue jeans. Worn for more than 150 years, the fabric holds an even more longstanding tradition. Still it has repeatedly proven to be modern and innovative.”
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