Rachel Scott Design

Bike Badges

Collecting these would be a great hobby for someone interested in both type and bikes.

Self proclaimed ‘bike geek’ Jeffery Conner is certainly into the latter. A professor from Michigan, USA, Jeff’s been collecting bicycle head badges since 2000, starting with just three badges, his collection grew to over 800 in just 36 months. The slightly curved badges come from all over the world and Jeff has found almost every letter of the alphabet (he was just missing Q & X according to this article) 

“There are symbols of freedom and speed – with wings and birds abounding – and also a debt to heraldic animals (serpents, lions and eagles, in particular), with ideas of strength and precision also conveyed in the designs.”

Last year London design agency, Carter Wong, produced a book collecting some of their favourite badges as a self-initiated project.

Friday Freebies: Collection of Free Fonts:

Duma Font by Ish Adames - Download

Freschezza Typeface by Marco Oggian - Download

Cigarettes & Coffee by Fabian De Lange - Download

Fancy Me by Colours & Beyond - Download

Le Super Serif by Suuper Bruut - Download

London by Antonio Rodrigues - Download

Uni Sans by FontFabric - Download

Simplifica by Kaiwa - Download

Quasith by Egidio Filippetti - Download

Bosun by Kid Grandios - Download

Have / know a freebie that you want to share? - Feel free to send it!

From Typographica, a list of their favorite typefaces from 2013. As you’ll see, good type design is happening all over the globe.