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Connor Bruggeman’s kiosk poster design. “I drew my inspiration from cycling posters from the 20th century that are really wonderful design posters,” he said.
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Students in Associate Professor of Art Stacy Asher’s
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advanced Graphic Design III course last spring designed graphics for a Boulder, Colorado, bike sharing program. Bike sharing, provided by Boulder
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about their needs, they have so many
B-cycle, entails a large fleet of ready to
stories to tell about the new bikes
ride bicycles located at stations across
coming out. They want to promote
Boulder. The bicycles are publicly
that, but also the bike sharing system
available for shared use for a short
to find solutions to alleviate the heavy
period of time for a fee. Boulder’s fleet
problems they have with parking and
includes pedal-assisted electric ebikes.
traffic congestion. They’re really trying
It is similar to Lincoln’s BikeLNK bike
to push micro mobility. They wanted to
sharing program.
promote this, but didn’t have a budget
“I have some people that I’ve been
to hire graphic designers. I thought our
working with doing some commission
graphic design students could do a re-
design work and consulting on commu-
ally good job at making some graphics
nication strategies and visual systems,”
that could promote the electric bikes
Asher said. “So when they were talking
and also bike sharing in general.”
