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  • During Moving Design's Call to Action on bicycle safety our work's central goal was to awaken the public to issues surrounding bike safety and awareness through design. Immediately we recognized a disconnection and even a dislike across the three communities in transit, drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians. These icon system and installation was a response celebrating the symbiotic relationship that connects each group. Through decorating the boulevard with the 90 miniatures we playfully alluminate the likeness that falls across each walker, bicyclist, and driver... it's the universal truth that we are all going somewhere.

    Every day in Chicagoland there are more than 800 traffic crashes. Of those, about 150 drivers will flee the scene. On average, Chicagoland has more than one traffic fatality every day, another 24 people are seriously injured every day. Most of these crashes are cars crashing into other cars, but these car crashes are not isolated events - many happen on streets filled with innocent passersby, pedestrians and bicyclists. These passersby are the people most vulnerable to serious injury and death.

    This was a Moving Design project that was only possible trough a team effort. The icon system was design by Nick Adam, the installation concept and work was conducted by Greg Pilon, Cody Hudson and Lyndon Valicenti's outdoor team: Pete Cuba, Craig Stover, Shannon Delaney, Nicole Warren, Hendrika Makilya and Annie Ranttila.
  • One of the 90 ornaments installed across Logan Boulevard in Chicago Logan Square.
  • Morning preparation for installation. These wooden miniatures were produced by a CAD rendering and a water-jet saw. 
  • The icon system behind the signage. It's Swiss International with a twist of irreverent attitude.  
  • Within three days all of the ornaments had disappeared from Logan Boulevard.
  • Over the past year I've been delighted to find them appearing as decorations in homes and apart of art collections.
  • This work was apart of Moving Design's call to action around bicycle safety in Chicago. The focus was to transform the Logan Square neighborhood into Chicago's first hub for safe, active mobility, where pedestrians and bikers are respected on their streets. Moving Design is focused on bringing together the brightest designers to shed light on issues that remain unseen and unheard.

    Moving Design's intervention on Bicycle Safety was lead by myself along side Cody Hudson, John Pobojewski , Gregory Pilon, Scott Reinhard, Bud Rodecker, and our fearless leader Rick Valicenti. We built a force of 52 of Chicago's most talented and passionate designers, artists, and educators. Together we created public interventions that engaged and activated discourse on bicycle safety through converting design/art/communication into tangible and real experiences in efforts toward improving our neighbors' and our own lives.

    This means designing a pamphlet was completely out of the question. Collectively we worked to shape and design experiences that move beyond our unsustainable peril.