The Future Cycles is a multi disciplinary project that includes the design and creation of speculative vehicles, short films, and public deployments as a way to encourage public imagination in regard to transportation. Born from the realization that the American infrastructure will far outlive the practicality of our energy inefficient vehicles, Future Cycles encourages American car drivers to visualize an alternative reality of much smaller/lighter vehicles with much less energy consumption.
The vehicles themselves are explorations of new forms of mobility – fantasies of utility, fashion, energy efficiency, and low cost of ownership. They combine the efficiency of a bicycle or moped with the weather protection and carrying capacity of a car.
Our latest exploration “ORBIT” engages most directly the issue of personal agency in transportation and it is our hope to further refine and simplify the design so that it can be spread to others who have the ambition and skills to build it themselves.
ORBIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS on tour with the COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM http://fayjones.uark.edu/news-and-events/exhibitions/2017-2018/by-the-people.php
ORBIT AT THE COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/04/19/cooper-hewitt-to-present-by-the-people-designing-a-better-america/
ZEPPELIN VOTED TOP TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL BIKES OF 2015 by the BBC http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20150514-the-10-most-beautiful-bicycles-of-2015
FUTURE CYCLES at NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW
http://www.designboom.com/design/the-future-people-future-cycles-human-powered-vehicles-naias-2015-01-14-2015/
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041037/the-most-interesting-car-at-the-detroit-auto-show-is-actually-a-bike#2
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/01/14/zeppelin-human-powered-car-bicycle-hybrid-concept-vehicle-future-people/
The vehicles themselves are explorations of new forms of mobility – fantasies of utility, fashion, energy efficiency, and low cost of ownership. They combine the efficiency of a bicycle or moped with the weather protection and carrying capacity of a car.
Our latest exploration “ORBIT” engages most directly the issue of personal agency in transportation and it is our hope to further refine and simplify the design so that it can be spread to others who have the ambition and skills to build it themselves.
ORBIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS on tour with the COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM http://fayjones.uark.edu/news-and-events/exhibitions/2017-2018/by-the-people.php
ORBIT AT THE COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/04/19/cooper-hewitt-to-present-by-the-people-designing-a-better-america/
ZEPPELIN VOTED TOP TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL BIKES OF 2015 by the BBC http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20150514-the-10-most-beautiful-bicycles-of-2015
FUTURE CYCLES at NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW
http://www.designboom.com/design/the-future-people-future-cycles-human-powered-vehicles-naias-2015-01-14-2015/
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3041037/the-most-interesting-car-at-the-detroit-auto-show-is-actually-a-bike#2
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/01/14/zeppelin-human-powered-car-bicycle-hybrid-concept-vehicle-future-people/