Mark Noble at Deluxe helped with tried and tested quality manufacturing, the design is simple and elegant in gloss black and gold with graphics created by typeface designer Seb Lester – also a BMX flatland rider – bringing the image of the Swift to life with beautiful hand drawn lettering and head badge, also available in gold and black print t-shirts here.

The bike is in prototype stages at the moment, and should be out hopefully by the end of the year.

The work is going to be stylistically diverse, with artists ranging from Jon Burgerman, I Love Dust, Sam Pierpoint, Lewes Harriot, Dan Westwood and members of The Outcrowd.  The exhibition will be showing initially in the Created In Birmingham store, opening May 6th; all prints will be available to buy from both the store and through the Facebook group here, although the designs are going to be kept secret until the day of the opening.

All artwork at the event will be for sale with all money going to the Save the Children – Haiti Earthquake appeal. The auction will begin at 7pm Friday 26th March and will end at 10pm Friday 9th April.

The website is here.

There are artists from around the world donating work, with more getting involved as this project snowballs every day. Some of the artists so far include; David Shrigley, Genevieve Gauckler, Bob Kronbauer, Simon Peplow, Alex Trochut and Rob Ryan with photographers Ye Rin Mok,  Cass Bird and Valerie Phillips recently getting involved.

The piece i’ve donated was created with Jonny Costello originally in a project with Digiki. We’ve also included a signed one-off print of the work on archival quality paper which will go into a live auction at the end of the project.

The first time we’ve done anything like this and a lot of fun, there will be more.

I read the other day they sell over 100,000 t-shirts a month!

The show at Analogue is gong to run all month until April 28th. I’m not sure where the next stop for the show will be, but if its anything like this one it’s going to be great. More pictures from the night on mine and Analogue’s Flickr pages

There’s a little more about the exhibition and the people behind it in something I wrote in October here.

The Joyful Bewilderment
28th March 2009 – 28th April 2009
Opening: Saturday 28th March, 7pm-9pm

Analogue Books
102 West Bow
Edinburgh
EH1 2HH
UK

“The idea is a simple one. That people who Do things, can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things too”.

Linked in part with the good people at Howies, the idea came from a conversation between two of it’s founders over the dining table one night about how to do something about the things we care about.

“They can be small Do’s or big Do’s or just plain amazing extraordinary Do’s. But when you listen to their stories, they just light a fire in your belly to go and Do your thing, your passion, the thing that sits in the back your head each day, just waiting, and waiting for you to follow your heart”.

Its an amazing project that took place in the middle of a forest in Cilgerran, Wales. You can subscribe to the podcast here, or go to the website where you can watch or download the lectures. Work your way through, read about the people, there’s a lot to learn and enjoy

Alastair McIntosh was one of the great speakers at the Do lectures, and it was actually a post on the Howies site about him that originally got me interested. It was a list taken from a book of his entiltled ‘rekindling the community’ from a page about how to build a community.

here it is:

• turn off your tv
• leave your house
• know your neighbours
• greet people
• look up when you’re walking
• sit on your stoop
• plant flowers
• use your library
• play together
• buy from local merchants
• share what you have
• help a lost dog
• take children to the park
• honour elders
• support neighbourhood schools
• fix it even if you didn’t break it
• have pot lucks
• garden together
• pick up litter
• read stories aloud
• dance in the street
• talk to your mail carrier
• lsiten to the birds
• put up a swing
• help carry something heavy
• barter for your goods
• start a tradition
• ask a question
• hire young people for odd jobs
• organise a block party
• bake extra and share
• ask for help when you need it
• open your shades
• sing together
• share your skills
• take back the night
• turn up the music
• turn down the music
• listen before you react to anger
• mediate a conflict
• seek to understand
• learn from new and uncomfortable angles
• know that no one is silent though many are not heard
• work to change this

The lecture by Andrew Whitley  ‘Why Bread Needs Time?’ is interesting and scary at the same time. I’d only just started making my own bread about 3 weeks before watching it, now i’m happy that I did.

All images © The Do Lectures

All of the plates are now up for auction with proceeds going to a very good cause, the Athlete Recovery Fund. Many of the auctions have already ended, with the rest ending in the next couple of days. You can go to the main page here, or a direct link to the auction pages here.