Beautiful Handmade Wood Handlebars For Bicycles. Les Classiques by F&Y of Montreal.

Fredérique & Yannic are two Montreal based woodworkers who share a passion for design and biking. Together they've formed F&Y Classiques, a line of lovingly hand crafted wooden handle bars for bicycles. Available in bent or straight styles, the handlebars are made from such woods as ash, cherry, wenge, walnut and morado.



The polished woods are held together with brass rivets:

The curved handlebars have an aluminum inset:


Below is their complete line of products to date.

La Fleche - ash wood, aluminum and brass ($110):

La Doyenne - cherry wood, aluminum and brass ($110):

La Doyenne (straight) $70:

La Reine - Walnut wood, aluminum and brass ($110):

La Reine (straight) $70:

La Primavera - Wenge wood, aluminum and brass ($110):

La Primavera (straight) $70:



Milan Milan -Morado wood, aluminum and brass ($110):


Frederique and Yannic of F&Y:






You can purchase the F&Y Classiques handlebars here in their online store

Crazy Curvalinear Ski Resort in Iran Inspired By Snowdrifts and Igloos. The Barin Ski Resort.

While the exterior of the Barin Ski Resort was designed to blend into the snow covered landscape, the interior offers a modern igloo-like refuge. Designed by RYRA studio, the 60 square meter building with it's topographical like interior walls and ceilings, is nine stories tall and began in 2008 and was completed in 2011.

Without a right angle in sight, the interior is filled with skylights, curved halls and doorways, built-in seating and modern furnishings designed to match the interior surfaces.

The architects describe the project as follows:
"In the fall 2008 we started designing interior of Barin ski resort at the same time we were working on the exterior of the project. Firstly we chose a 60 m² unit, which is the most frequent one in complex, to design as a showcase room. Barin is located in the heart of mountain, in Shemsak ski resort (the second largest ski area in Iran) with such a unique nature that we decided to take this project as a demonstration one that investigates the interface between nature and architecture.




The dialogue between architecture and nature is as old as architecture itself, so it took different forms according to the concepts and paradigms ruling each period. In the traditional period, architecture was always linked with nature by the beginning of the modern movement, the relation between architecture and nature took a different form. This project aims to show new ideas that help in modifying the relation between

architecture and nature without blindly repeating vernacular models or copying imported historical styles .It aims to reach that the logic product of any architectural design process should be free and flexible formation responding to the surrounding forces. Natural forces here were Snow-covered landscapes as the characteristic feature of the region and the fluid lines of mountain embracing the building. In design process we were also inspired by Igloos, the shelters which are built by native arctic residents’, but here topographic layers instead of ice blocks are put on each other horizontally to make a domical form. Thereupon this was a Combined Metaphoric Design which used both natural and human-made objects as inspiration sources to achieve its final form."


Name : Barin Ski Resort
Location : Shemshak - Tehran - Iran
Architects : RYRA Studio
Abbas Riahi Fard , Farinaz Razavi Nikoo

Project team : Ashkan Bagheri Aghdam, Navid Nasrollahzadeh, Yaser Karimian, Hamed Tabesh, Soroush Alipour, Hesam Raoofpanah

Project area: 60 sqm
Project year: 2008-2011
Photographs: Persia Photography Centre

Exhibition Posters and TV Spot For Star Wars Identities Exhibit by Bleublancrouge.

For thirty-five years, audiences around the world have followed the adventures of Luke and Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi heroes of a galaxy far, far away. And now, a new exciting exhibition comes to our own galaxy with Star Wars Identities, a redefined modern exhibition experience in which we will rediscover the unforgettable characters of Star Wars in a whole new way.

Canadian agency Bleublancrouge has done a very nice job with promoting the exhibit. Their six illustrated exhibition posters, video teaser and now, a new tv spot are all nicely done (and all shown in this post).

First, the latest promotional tv spot for the exhibit, directed by Simon Olivier Fecteau:




Canadian ad agency Bleublancrouge also created the inkblot Vader image and video teaser for the exhibit:


The exhibit’s marquee image – the inkblot Darth Vader – quickly captivated the StarWars.com readers when it was first revealed last November (shown above), accompanied by this teaser spot for the exhibit:


Bleublancrouge is also one of three companies that make up X3 Productions (the exhibit’s licensee), has created several new character portraits for the campaign, which are showcased below.

The illustrations were inspired by the individuality of each character, by what makes them who they are; Yoda, Darth Vader, Amidala, C-3PO, Boba Fett and a Stormtrooper:



above: detail of Bleublanrouge's Amidala exhibition poster for Star Wars Identities

above: detail of Bleublanrouge's Vader exhibition poster for Star Wars Identities


above: detail of Bleublanrouge's Yoda exhibition poster for Star Wars Identities

above: detail of Bleublanrouge's C3PO exhibition poster for Star Wars Identities


above: details of Bleublanrouge's Stormtrooper exhibition posters for Star Wars Identities

above: detail of Bleublanrouge's Boba Fett exhibition poster for Star Wars Identities

This new innovative exhibition with interactive displays, original costumes, props and concept art, was made possible by Lucasfilm Ltd. and produced by Montreal's X3 Productions. It makes use of an extensive collection from the Lucasfilm Archives to explore the sciences of identity through the characters of Star Wars.

Some images from the exhibit:




Star Wars Identities: The Exhibition