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Fishing pole, old car among bike rack winners

Posted by Geeky Swedes on July 27th, 2008

In the last hours of Ballard SeafoodFest, Sustainable Ballard announced the winners of the Ballard Bike Rack Design Contest.

Over 100 entries were submitted, many from middle school and high school students. The judges include architects, designers and the Chamber of Commerce. All are Ballard residents.

Sustainable Ballard’s Craig Benjamin (left) announced the six winners. They’ll get to see their designs built and placed around Ballard as early as September. Three of the locations are already determined, but the other three have yet to be approved. Click through below for the winning designs…

Typewriter keys form this bike rack designed by Henrietta Coffington, which will be placed right in front of the Ballard Library.

These poles with Native-American style orcas on top were designed by Linton Rowan. They’ll be positioned at the Ballard Locks.

Bicycles hang from this big fishing pole, which will also be placed at the Locks. Design by Marin Bork and Katie Bang.

Middle schooler Kaila Crosby designed this bike rack, which was a favorite among the judges. The proposed location is along Ballard Ave.

These circles by Carl Sanden give this bike rack a trendy, futuristic look. Also proposed for Ballard Ave.

And finally, the “Fossilmobile” is the shell of an old car, by Jason Hirst. The proposed location is Ballard Ave., but Sustainable Ballard admits it may be a little challenging to get buy-in to install it in Old Ballard.

No, the Googie design did not win. “The judges weren’t really into it,” Benjamin said. Some had hoped that it could be placed at Market St. and 15th Ave. in remembrance of the Manning’s Cafeteria.

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  • KUDOS TO ALL INVOLVED WITH THIS G R E A T NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT!! Now let's get our neighboring towns involved in organizing their own bike rack design contest: SCALLOPS! (Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound). www.scallopswa.org
  • CaffinatorX
    I think they could've added more bike slots to the googie design pretty easily. I kinda thought that coolness was a big point of the contest. Otherwise we could just put up the regular boring ones for cheap.
  • orinthe
    Doesn't the Googie design, though cool, strike anyone as being sort of inefficient for a bike rack? It seems like it would take up a lot of space, but make it difficult to affix many bicycles to it.

    The circles seem a bit boring, but functional, and the car seems a bit (faux) slummy. I like everything else, though.
  • CaffinatorX
    Man, no one liked Googie! C'mon! That design was mint.
    I'm worried that people aren't going to know they can use the decaying car design as a bike rack.
    The fish design is boring; Fremont brushed metal surplus.
    I like the kid's design. and the fishing pole is great.
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