People's impromptu sketches of bicycles have been turned into a series of absurd-looking digital renderings in the Velocipedia project (+ slideshow).
This bike design features a frame that leans backward unnaturally
The renderings are the result of a seven-year-long project by Italian American designer Gianluca Gimini, who approached family, friends and strangers with a pen and paper, and asked them to draw a men's bicycle from memory.
The sketches feature all kinds of erroneous details, including strangely shaped frames, bulbous tires, misplaced mudguards and a seat that tilts away awkwardly from the handlebars.
The design was based on a sketch by a person recorded only as Leonardo
Gimini developed a process combining photographic post-production and digital painting to turn these garbled illustrations into a set of renderings. This bicycle misses some vital frame components
Many of the fictional bicycles' components are lifted from photographs then digitally manipulated to resemble the frames in the sketches.
While they appear three dimensional, they are technically ultra-realistic digital drawings and not 3D rendered wireframe models.
The bike design was based on a sketch by Anna Rite
Velocipedia began as a conversation in a bar between Gimini and a friend. He challenged his friend to draw a bicycle on a napkin, but the resulting image was of a bike that was neither structurally sound nor functional. This sketch became the first of 376 flawed designs collected by th...