Erick van Egeraat and Fixed Gear Bikes on BBC Radio Culture Shock

My old boss Erick van Egeraat was on BBC Radio's show Culture Shock recently and on the same show was a talk about bike culture and fixed gear bikes in particular. Oh the irony. Slide projectors are also discussed in the segment between the two. Full show is about 26 minutes, so about 9 minutes for each topic.

"Why fixed-gear biking is taking over in San Francisco and becoming a cross-generation social movement."

"A Dutch architect is planning a huge artificial archipelago in the Black Sea, just off the southern city of Sochi, shaped the way Russia looks on a map, complete with miniature rivers and mountains."

Listen to the show here.

Byker Renderings

Here are a couple of images of work that I did while at EEA in London. The project was called Byker redevelopment and was part of Ralph Erskine's famous modern (re)development in the area. Can't remember if it was a competition or a project. Nevertheless, it never went anywhere.

"Byker was one of the first major attempts in Britain to create a dialogue between community and architecture. Erskine oversaw the development of this famous project allowing for tenant cooperation and architectural innovation on a large scale to provide housing protected from motorway noise and the rebuilding of a whole estate near the city centre."

— Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p351.

Formotion Design Dot Com Coming Soon

Initial homepage (under construction) graphic I did for formotiondesign.com before it was rerouted here until I can get it built

Stuff Downtown Raleigh Likes #1: Warehouses

When looking at the history and current state of downtown Raleigh, there is no doubt that it likes warehouses. It just can’t get enough of them. Downtown Raleigh even has a district called “The Warehouse District.” Then again, don’t most cities have “warehouse districts”? They do IF they haven’t torn all the warehouses down to make room for stucco laced condos or big box retail. Red clay makes up most of the soil in the midlands of North Carolina. Bricks are made of red clay. And what are warehouses made of? Yes, that’s right, brick. Warehouses embody history and we love history. Therefore, deductive logic states that Downtown Raleigh must celebrate its warehouses. Full Post

Everything Comes At A Price - A Living Eulogy For The Garland Jones Office Building

In Downtown Raleigh at the corner of Salisbury and Martin Streets resides the remarkable structure formerly known as the First Federal Bank Building. Renamed the Garland Jones Office Building, it houses Wake County’s Register of Deeds. The American Institute of Architects has identified it as one of the 88 most important 20th Century structures in Raleigh. The building has also been identified as a contributing structure in a study to designate the Fayetteville Street District as a Federal Historic District. Most remarkable is the fact that it is the last remaining example of High Modern Architecture in the downtown core. A myriad of other structures still populate the area --so much so that Raleigh resident George Smart has found no end in cataloging just the residential structures worthy of note. But after Wake County demolished its Social Services Building in 1998 it left the First Federal Building as the only well-dressed representative of that time. Continue reading HERE

The Florida Ballet Barre - 3 Options

Three options for a logo for an organization ran by Stacy's sister in Florida called The Florida Ballet Barre. Hopefully the logos are self-explanatory. (click for larger images)

Tir Na Nog February Local Beer, Local Band Flyer

Latest Flyer for Tir Na Nog's weekly Local Beer, Local Band rock 'n roll show. Working on a second version which will be up next week. DOMINO!