News
02.03.10
Better Bikeways at GOOD
Good Magazine recently asked me to write a series of articles for their website about my Better Bikeways project and the future of bike planning for Los Angeles. You can read the first installment here which gives an overview of the BB proposal and a second installment talking about the potential of LA's 4th Street Bikeway was just posted here.
Thanks to the folks at Good for inviting me to write about such an important subject!
03.16.09
INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge
This past fall Louise Sandhaus and I served as faculty advisors for the CalArts entry in the 2008 INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge: Designing Water's Future. Under our guidance a team of six graduate and undergraduate students worked together to design a campaign that would address a local aspect of the global water crisis. This work resulted in a proposal for a campaign titled "Rethink Your Green" which encouraged Angelenos to replace water-hungry traditional lawns with landscaping that saved water and was more appropriate to Southern California's dry mediterranean climate.
The jury for the Challenge has just announced that the CalArts team was chosen as one of seven finalists (drawn from the more than 225 entries from 28 countries that they received) invited to refine their concepts and develop business plans at a meeting in Aspen, Colorado, this July and Copenhagen, Denmark this August. At that time, one of the finalists will also be selected to receive the INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge Prize, which, through the generous support of the JL Foundation, will include a $10,000 grant to implement the proposal.
You can read a press release about the contest here.
Congratulations to all the project participants!
03.12.09
Bikeway in the News
The 4th Street Bikeway Project, a proposed reform of standard bike route signage (& my graduate
thesis at CalArts), has been receiving some very nice notices from a variety of publications over
the past few months. Click on the links below to check out a few of the write ups:
• Monocle Magazine (must be a subscriber to access the full text of the article)
• The Montreal Gazette
• The Journal of Murketing
• Mammut Magazine
• StreetsBlog.org
The project also had the honor of being nominated for a People's Design Award (where it placed in the top 50 projects) as part of the Cooper Hewitt's 2008 National Design Award.
To learn more about the project in its current incarnation please visit bikewaysignage.org