Just stumbled across a wonderful site filled with some amazing hand painted lettering and a great viseo on sign writing. check it out the site King George and the video

I am now a proud new owner of a old skool track frame hand built by Martrac a company that were based in my home town Middlesbrough till '93. The company was made up of brother & sister Martin & Tracy based on Florence St. This small frame builders and powder coaters were well known back in the day and i'm so chuffed to now be the owner of one. Its gonna be a labour of love restroing it back to its former glory.

So you've probably gathered by now that we're bicycle fanatics. Well if ever there was a company worth blogging about its gotta be Feather Cycles, based in York Rickies creativity & talent with steel is jaw dropping. Into only his second year of building professionally he's making a impact thick and fast. Head on over to Feather Cycles to see more of Rickies amazing work.

Nice video of H + Sons deep V rim production.
Music: Ancient Methods - Fourth Method side A1
H Plus Son rims are machine made in China
go check it out here 

Having bought a new Fuji Track Comp last summer I felt it was time to give it a face lift in the form of a custom 'waste' paint job and new rims. The process of stripping, prepping, undercoated, masking and painting was a joy from start to finish.

Brent Humphreys Tour de France photography certainly is mind blowing pop on over to his website Project tour and have a look its not only his great photography, the website is a great example of how a photography website should be. 

Stumbled across the old classic Steamboat Willie the other day. Cant believe it was released way back in 1928. Had forgotten how beautifully simple the animation was. I remember watching it as a kid and drawing steamboat willie over and over. click this link and feast your ears and eyes on the classic once again.

This video has so many amazing shots. A must see. Link Here

Love this video, really clever and simple. Wonder how long it will be till an advertising firm do a cheap rubbish spin off. Link Here

Im not quite sure how i came across this amazing video of signwriter David A Smith but im sure happy i did. This really is an inspirational video which i have enjoyed many times on our projector while working. Just check it out for yourselves. Link Here

Last weekend we made a trip over to the lovely Goathland (where heartbeat is filmed) and found some lovely sign writing along the railway tracks.

Spring is here! We went out for a long awaited ride last night and Rob got some awesome images.

Recently we hosted the 6th Floodit at the Nottingham Contemporary. It was an thoroughly enjoyable event everyone was loving the bands and the artwork. We had some really great names in the line up of Artists and Bands. For more info on the night visit Floodit here

Weve been invited to a print show in Lascoste's flagship store in Lonon by VNA with a bunch of other talented folks should be excellent! Then the day after is Wooden Toy Launch. Fun times.

Well our good Aussie friend Mr Timba Smits is having the London launch of his of his awesome publication Wooden Toy, Waste were lucky enough to collaborate with Timba on the packaging and an artist print for this special music edition. The Launch of the show is set for Thursday 2nd of December at Concrete Hermit we are sure to be there!

So Recently i purchased a brand new brothers frame and loads of other new bits for my bike. After riding it for about 2 weeks i can safely say its awesome. Check out Brothers Cycles here, ill have some pictures of it built up soon!

We recently visited the Gastrotypographicalassemblage show at Kemistry Gallery in London. It was really interesting to see the origins of Lou Dorfsmans ideas. Its a shame that the piece got into such a bad way and is now having to be restored.

111 Years of Graphic Design from GF Smith came to Nottingham Trent University last week.

The collaborative effort, showed how this 111 year old, privately owned paper merchant has kept graphic design alive and going strong with a stunning collection of their promotional print material. Collected over a span of 111 years it’s an amazing and inspirational collection, that encompasses both European and American promotions, with work from contributors such as Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Bill McKay and SEA Design.

Launched at the Edinburgh School of Art in October 2009, the tour will commence in ernest in January at The Glasgow School of Art, and continues to tour the countries leading Universities throughout 2010.

We went over to the wonderful Nottingham Contemporary to see their new exhibition 'Star City - The Future Under Communism'. The Collection explores how the future was imagined under Communism – and why that vision is so important to us today?'

It features the work of leading artists who grew up in the former Eastern Bloc and have emerged as international artists during the last decade – Althamer, Kusmirowski, Macuga, Mir. Star City also includes leading figures of the Eastern and Central European avant-garde from the 60s and 70s – Filko, Kabakov, Koller - together with other leading contemporary Western artists who have worked behind the former Iron Curtain – Jane and Louise Wilson, Otolith Group.

If your in or around Nottingham make sure you stop by to see this excellent collection you will not be disapointed.

We've joined forces with our friends Studio Output to bring together a special event for the London design festival. We're taking over the whole of The Queen of Hoxton in Shoreditc.

The event will start on the roof terrace for a BBQ and live screen printing of work from the participating artists.

As the sun sets the action moves downstairs to the basement bar where there will be talks and installations by a number of different creatives. Talks and showcases will come from the likes of:

Studio Output • Merlin Nation • Richard Paul • Waste • Bryony Birkbeck