Livestrong Nara Newson Hirst - Yanko Design

Since Lance Armstrong with Livestrong put their finger in the low-cal socket that is the art globe, there's been wild electricity. This twelvemonth sort of got started with the Livestrong x Shepard Fairey collaboration. That was fire. These are definitely hot. Designer Marc Newson, the childlike artist Yoshitomo Nara, and the most expensive artist in the world Damien Hirst. I've got collywobbles!

Since these bikes are a niggling bit more than about the aesthetics than they are about the technicals, I'll give a nutshell bit of info about each of the artists involved.

Damien Hirst has bank. He'due south gained major notoriety for his dot paintings, his frighteningly alive dead animals frozen in their most exciting moment in formaldehyde, and of course, his butterflies. The Trek Madone bike Hirst has designed hither he covers with a collection of real butterflies accented with socking pink.

Marc Newson is the designer. He's worked with Nike, Ford, Dom Pérignon, Cappellini, Qantas, Samsonite, and Jaeger Le Coultre amongst many many others. His piece of furniture bit "Lockheed Lounge" is yet the most expensive slice of furniture ever sold at auction. His Expedition Speed Concept features a "Stroboscopic" rear cycle that "appears to pulse as it spins."

Yoshitomo Nara designed the giant dog that sits on the first flooring of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. That'due south the closest I've ever been to a piece of Nara. Nara loves hardcore rock'n'roll, and rocks the hardcore simplicity in cartoon characters who oft wield knives and other deadly weapons. Nara's Speec Concept bicycle features what you can come across in the pictures besides equally a phrase on the bike that can simply be viewed when Armstrong's caput is "deep in aerodynamic constrict:" Never Forget Your Beginner's Spirit.

*PS if you don't follow Lance Armstrong on twitter, do information technology. Information technology's so completely worth it just to see how often he gets at it. Cheque that out here: @lancearmstrong – the @ civilisation is strong!

Designer: Trek Bikes, Damien Hirst, Marc Newson, and Yoshitomo Nara