I don’t usually blog about fashion. The apparel industry is a whole other can of worms. And while fashion should in my opinion be considered alongside product and architecture as parallel subsets under the modern rubric of industrial design, it is not yet, and so I leave it at that and stay largely away. But [...]
Transportation
May 7, 2012
Citi Bike
By SinclairStreetsblog.org has announced that Citi Band will sponsor New York’s bike share program beginning in July. Those guys are no dopes. It’s a great lifestyle brand extension for them. Good for the city. Good for people and quality of life. Good for business. Ka’ching!!
September 3, 2011
Morgan three wheeler (in Celadon!)
By SinclairOk, yeah, yeah, the Morgan Motor Company three wheeler featured in this nytimes article is pretty cool, but can we just talk about how beautiful the color they painted it is? I mean come on!! It’s celadon! Also, I love how the English and many of their Northern European neighbors fight their gray skies and [...]
June 22, 2011
Comparative intersection design
By SinclairBike Delaware News has an interesting follow up to Ron Con Coca Cola’s SVA thesis video which made the rounds last month. In the Zen of Roundabout Engineering they compare Ron’s video to a typical Dutch roundabout. It’s unbearably civilized. Everyone is so careful and courteous… I can’t watch! Via KR
June 22, 2011
Modern track laying tech
By SinclairA friend passed along this incredible video of how mechanized railroad track laying occurs these days. Amazing. Watch the video here.
June 21, 2011
A proper english tailgate party
By SinclairAh, I do love a proper English picnic! Or is that a tailgate party? Anyway, lovely finishes and fittings. Via Gastronomista.
June 19, 2011
Old MTA lettering
By SinclairGreat old lettering at the exit stairs for South Oxford St at the Lafayette Ave C station.
June 19, 2011
Fire engines kick ass!!
By SinclairA lot of people think that firetrucks are just a colorful and loud way of getting really awesome people in amazing outfits around town to do their hero’s work. It’s not that simple. Inside every hose truck, not to be confused with ladder truck, is an extremely sophisticated water pump engine that controls the flow [...]
June 17, 2011
On teaching kids to ride a bike
By SinclairHenry Cutler, the Brooklyn transplant industrial designer/owner of Amsterdam based Workcycles has a great piece on the stages of teaching children to ride a bicycle. Read for yourself… (by the way, check out that badass cross frame Opa in the background of the photo above. Gorgeous.)