TIGHTS DESIGNER
Paperspokes was a brand we created in 2014 as a team of three women, designing urban bicycle accessories that combine practical solutions with playful design. Until 2021, we developed products including designer bicycle crates, reflective stickers and reflective shock cords. These archive posts look back at the story of Paperspokes, from our first ideas and product designs to prototyping, manufacturing, marketing and the challenges of building a design business together. They bring together memories and insights from a project that ran for seven years.
I’ve always been an entrepreneur, working across graphic design, retail, and creative businesses. I’ve been writing this blog since 2014, sharing my work, creative projects, and business journey.
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2019. For a while, we had been thinking about making a simple metal version of our wooden bicycle crates. After working with the heavy wooden crates, we knew one thing for sure: this time, we wanted to make something really lightweight. So we started thinking about aluminium. The first […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2017. After Spotty and ZigZag, our first wooden bicycle crates, we wanted to create something much lighter and easier to transport. So together with the Paperspokes team, we started working on a new bicycle crate design. Zsófi (Zsófia Bakó) designed the new crate, taking inspiration from Spotty. Everyone loved...
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 We suddenly got the opportunity to take part in Milan Design Week 2016 in Italy as exhibitors with PaperSpokes. This was a pretty big deal for us, because taking part in an event like this is very expensive. Being invited and getting to participate for free was an […]
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 Between March 18 and 20 2016 we took part in Berliner Fahrradschau in Berlin with PaperSpokes. It was one of the main events of Berlin Bicycle Week, and most of the big cycling brands were represented there. We had applied for the exhibition back in October last year […]
