No, seriously. It’s paper.
For as long as we’ve been doing bike poster shows, our artists have been printing their work on Neenah Paper stocks. For the past three years, we’ve worked with Neenah to offer special discounts to our...
View ArticleGoin’ Back to Cali: Poster Artists Wanted for SFO + LAX Shows
Northern California and Southern California don’t agree on much. In fact, bikes, art and ARTCRANK may be the entire list. This fall, we’ll be staging our fifth show in San Francisco, and our second...
View ArticleWorld Bicycle Relief: Empowerment On Two Wheels
Since its founding in 2005, World Bicycle Relief has delivered more than 163,000 purpose-designed, ultra-durable bikes to people in areas where a bicycle serves as a profoundly impactful tool of...
View ArticlePaper & Ink: San Francisco
Paper & Ink is a series highlighting ARTCRANK posters printed on Neenah Paper and the artists who created them. Our last installment from our 2013 show calendar features six designers from ARTCRANK...
View ArticleOregon Manifest & ARTCRANK Artists Team Up to Create Custom Helmets Inspired...
ARTCRANK is joining forces with Oregon Manifest to create one-of-a-kind helmet designs as part of The Bike Design Project. This pioneering competition pairs top design firms from Chicago, New York,...
View ArticleWant Your Favorite Poster on a Messenger Bag? Vote #timbuk2artcrank!
Since 2007, ARTCRANK has been a showcase for brilliantly designed, bike-inspired posters. Thanks to a new partnership with Timbuk2, ARTCRANK fans will have a chance to vote two of this year’s favorite...
View ArticlePoster Backstory: Will Ecke — San Francisco 2014
Comic Chinchillas and Design Smiles Like many designers, Will Ecke’s relationship with the visual started early on, the product of a love of comic strips. In fact, he used to draw his own comic strips....
View ArticlePoster Backstory: Jessica Henry — San Francisco 2014
Making Friends With the Overlooked and Untamed As a child, Jessica Henry always felt bad for the crayons in the box that never got used and wondered how it felt to be a grape that had fallen to the...
View ArticlePoster Backstory: Gritchelle Fallesgon — San Francisco 2014
Driven to Do It Her Way Gritchelle Fallesgon is a driven woman, working as a freelance designer and photographer in San Francisco. As anyone that works in the freelance world knows, making it means...
View ArticlePoster Backstory: Chad Kriz — San Francisco 2014
Bike to the Bone A broken tibia and fibula suffered in a mountain biking crash weren’t enough to keep Chad Kriz from doing an interview about his poster for ARTCRANK’s 2014 San Francisco show. Despite...
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