Dan Parry-Jones is a Bristol based illustrator. He is one of the artists showing this week-end at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea.

Car advertising at its worst. Branding cycling as what no sane person would do.

Matt Taylor is a Brighton based illustrator and designer. He has recently produced a nice set of “Tattoos and Bikes” drawings. We are a bit more conservative (small c) and prefer the image above

I don’t want to die in my sleep, by Chris Thornley, via Chicks and Bikes

As we said last year: The Graziella is the Italian equivalent of the Jopo: etched in the memory of most people who grew up in the 70’s is riding it with a girl standing on the back rack, her hands on one’s shoulder. The video shows a modern remake by Cigno. Via Curitiba Cycle Chic

Leah Buechley is a well-known expert in the field of electronic textiles (e-textiles), and her work in this area includes developing a method for creating cloth printed circuit boards (fabric PCBs) and designing the commercially available LilyPad Arduino toolkit. (Source: MIT). Here is her latest creation, using the Arduino: a jacket with user- controlled flashing lights on the back that can be operated as indicators or simply for visibility.

Valentines day is only a few days away. Here’s a little reminder of the romance of riding, and it goes beyond the nursery rhyme Daisy Daisy…