Camper Bike

Yikes!! this amazing Bike - Caravan is prompting a redesign at Bownanza!!

Could our Bownanza prototype be a food bike & tiny restaurant all in one!!? Eek - back to the drawing board...

http://www.kevincyr.net/index.php?/project/camper-bike/

CAD version of Bownanza Bike

Here's a CAD version of our prototype food bike - following the meeting last week with Signs of Life

Here's a bigger version so you can read the text

Food Bike Think Tank @ Signs of Life

Our design think tank - Signs of Life - have been beavering away developing concepts for their food bikes . 

We went along and met them today and shared ideas and brainstormed!












We showed them our ideas:

 

(here's Dominic's idea for a Bownanza bike with a roof from Bromley by Bow's 3 mills)

...and then they showed us their ideas

ice cream was a familiar theme, though no 'ice cream helicopters' this time.  

Meanwhile various designs explored chocolate a possible food vehicle:

Surprisingly none of our think-tankers were interested in Bengali food because 'they get it at home'. But Mexican food on the other hand scored highly. There was some amazing exploration of Mexican graphics for bike decoration here:

and this bike was complete with cacti on the roof

Bromley Breakfast served breakfast including a bowl of steaming porridge

At the end Rick and Tamara explained ones that caught their eye

JJ's Feisty Fiesta had all the spaces mapped out for stools, cooler, cutlery and oven. 

And last but not least, week by week, with each Signs of Life group meeting,  a scale model prototype bike is gradually taking shape - constructed from papier mache






with the legend 'Fiesta Fiesta' just becoming  visible at the back...

Bownanza bike prototype - sketch designs

Here's some sketch designs we've done for our prototype Bownanza bike - in advance of our meeting tomorrow with our Design Think Tank - Signs of Life. 

The first one below was inspired by the roofs of Three Mills in Bromley by Bow. 

 This one (below) was inspired by The Bromley by Bow Centre (left)

and this one celebrates the Bownanza logo using supergraphics

Meanwhile this design draws on the particular food that's being sold by the bike and reuses Ahmed's crown from our original presentation:

(Ahmed's Crown)

Vendor Power

Some really beautiful graphic work here from New York explaining in a simple and clear way the dos and don'ts of being a street vendor. It was created by The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) - a nonprofit organisation that uses design and art to improve civic engagement. 

Download the full guide here:

http://welcometocup.org/file_columns/0000/0012/vp-mpp.pdf

Kitchenette

Here's a great idea for kick starting a mobile food revolution!

'London's first kitchen incubator' they offer advice and support for people wanting to start up small food businesses


http://www.wearekitchenette.com/