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Bikesploitation 3 Bike/Art/Film Festival

May 24th - 26th, 2013 at Crosstown Arts - Memphis, TN

Bikesploition is a one-of-a-kind festival that brings together film, music, and art from around the world to celebrates our love for bikes.

Bike films, bike art, music via bike, family activities, live demos, food, beverages, and SO MUCH MORE. If you love bicycles, you are bound to have a great time at Bikesloitation!

As a bicycle-lover and artist myself, I’ve been making and collaborating on tricked out bikes for sometime now. As the bicycle has risen in popularity, so have the numbers of people expressing their love the bike through custom creations, original bikes designs, polo wheel covers, bike sculptures, t-shirts, and more. It seemed only natural to celebrate this fusion of bicycles and art!" - Christopher Reyes, Co-Founder, Bikesploitation

This year, Bikesploitation has expanded to include the Bike Art Gallery - A collection of bicycle inspired posters, photography, sculpture, and other art installation pieces.  The Bike Art Gallery opening is Friday, May 24th at 5pm (it will also be open Saturday and Sunday Noon-5).

Hand printed poster designed and printed by local artist. Artists include: Michael Andrews (Five In One), Josh Breeden (Erf), Anthoney Carter (Harvest), Jay Crum (TaroPop), Derrick Dent, Maggie Exner, Michael Hildebrand (Harvest), Lauren Rae Holtermann (Erf), Chuck Howard (Erf), Ronnie Lewis (Erf), Kong Wee Pang (TaroPop), Christopher Reyes, and Daniel Wildberger.

Wheel Cover Art by Christopher Reyes, Lauren Rae Holterman, Ronie Lewis, and Josh Breeden

"Bike Portraits" Photography exhibit by Nathan Berry

Performance Sculpture by Yvonne Bobo and Eli Gold.

Light and Sound Sculpture - “Spinners” by Christopher Reyes and Sarah Fleming

Animated Art Activities utilizing bicycle parts and video by Sallie Sabbatini

Paint Me Bike Car Audience Participation.

Custom Bikes by Sarah Fleming, Christopher Reyes, the Metal Museum, and Revolutions Bicycle co-op.

Learn more about Bikesploitation Artists. Get the full Schedule of Events.

Typography Tuesday

Fowl Mouth Wings branding

typography by Ronnie Lewis / illustration by Lauren Rae Holtermann

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Typography Tuesday

Bikesploitation Logo

Check out the new Bikesploitation 3 website and stay tuned for more details about the upcoming event and poster show, featuring members of ERF design.

Featured Artist of the Week - ERF Design

ERF is a Memphis-based team of multi-talented designers, artists, and developers all driven by a desire to make you stand out with a sleek, crisp design to your very own website. Originally created as a vehicle to make show posters after being approached by the HiTone. It didn’t take long to figure out that ERFs sleek rock and roll aesthetics could make everything around look better. Thus, with a beer in one hand and a mouse in the other, ERF a campaign to take over the world.

We’ve come a long way from dabbling in metal posters, and we’re proud to offer a variety of cutting edge services. ERF-lings are from the dirty south, so we were raised being jacks-of-all-trades. This gives us the benefit of being able to do a wide array of things in-house. We’ve built sites from scratch. Designed all encompassing brands. Drawn the world’s most awesome logos. We even done GIFs for movie ads. We have aims to take over the world with awesome designs.

Our Mission:

Specializing in branding and advertising across multiple platforms – everything from print to online presence to merchandise, ERF’s goal is to make you stand out. From the mild to the wild, ERF can meet your needs in a highly professional way and work with many different budgets.

At ERF, we work on everything in terms of projects and goals. We take your goal and break it up into projects that our team of designers and developers can accomplish in steps. In order to do that, we need to hear from you about what you are looking for. Whether it be meeting us for lunch, chatting on the phone, or a whimsical jaunt through emails, drop us a line with as many details as you can shake a stick at.

Each of our team members has ample experience in their respective fields, and strong knowledge of the latest and greatest designs. All of these skills allows us to bring the perfect set of tools to the table when designing your printed or digital brand. With our help, you will have that sleek and modern edge you were looking for.

Typography Tuesday

Erf Ad in latest Issue of Memphis music magazine Don't Look.