That’s an Award-Winning Logo Up on Top
The team at Smart Creative, who created the BikeLakeland logo, were awarded the prestigious Judge’s Award as the favorite piece at the Polk ADDY’s:
Second, the concept was both clever and thoughtful. (And I get to brag on my designer because it was all his idea.) Lakeland has the iconic swan, and Tymn found a way to make this very subtle illustration where the saddle of the bike was also a swan. You don’t necessarily catch it on the first look, but once you see it, you won’t miss it again. He executed the concept well, with a great color palette, good typography and interesting juxtapositions of the other elements. We were creative. — How Little Projects Win Big Awards
Thanks Fred, Tymn and Smart Creative. You rock. And the judges agree.
Tiger Brad Penny Notices Bike Friendly Lakeland
Look what we found over at MLB.com:
Tigers starter and notable Twitter presence Brad Penny usually sends a good-morning tweet every morning after he wakes up. On Wednesday, he greeted everyone with a different tweet.
“Nice 8-mile bike ride to the stadium today,” he wrote.
He confirmed it later: Before a day of workouts in Spring Training, he worked out by riding his bicycle to Tigertown, a 40-minute ride by his estimate. He enjoys the bicycle as a cross-training exercise some days, and Lakeland has made a point in recent years to become more bike-friendly with bicycle lanes on several main roads.
He’s not the only one. Magglio Ordonez won’t commute to the park on his mountain bike, but he said he’ll ride a couple days a week, including near Joker Marchant Stadium along Lake Parker. It’s a good exercise for him, he said, and a good way to gather his thoughts.
Thanks for noticing Brad. We’re also working on adding bike racks and improving our bike paths.
Photo CC by Tom Hagerty for LakelandLocal.com. Used by permission.
Lake-to-Lake Greenway and Bikeway Network
We’ve put the city’s Lake-to-Lake Greenway and Bikeway Network map online at http://bit.ly/Lake2Lake. It came from the city as a PDF, and isn’t the easiest to read, but until we have the time to create something interactive, it’ll have to do.