Want to impress your valentine? Make one of these at the dinner table. I know I would be more than a little aroused.

Directions for Origami Scooter

I don’t like riding b*tch. Makes me too nervous. But these silhouettes make riding cupcake seem so romantic. The 10″ melamine plate is $24. Visit the site to see the whole selection featuring these scooter silhouettes, including prints, cards, etc.

Thanks to Julie G. for this find!

lepapierstudio.com

This is a limited edition screen print of “The Weekenders,” taken from UK artist Pete McKee’s latest exhibition “Great Moments in Popular Music.” I just love the Northern Soulie aspect to this scene, all the red and white and the little heart on the girl’s helmet … (clearing throat) which makes it perfect as a gift for Valentine’s Day. These special prints are individually hand printed, and finished by the artist. Each is also signed and numbered. There will only be 75 copies made and the prints measure 60 cm x 60 cm. Cost? £345.00

therealmckee.co.uk

Don’t have your 2012 calendar yet? Oh good. Here’s a good choice. This way you’ll get your daily recommended allowance of two wheel goodness.
$13.95 – Size when opened: 23.5″ x 11.75″

calendars.com

Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian clothing designer during the time of Coco Chanel’s reign. But her real influence came from the Surrealists and Dadaists. Like a lot of Italians, she fell in love with the Vespa scooter and often featured them in her store windows. (That’s a 1954 Vespa 150 in the photo.) She also incorporated its logo into the silhouette of a pair of folding google-like eyeglasses which may or may not have been produced.
Personally, I’m not seeing the logo. Do you?

These can be found at some Barnes & Noble stores and possible online but I have struck out so far. Good luck!

discoverybaygames.com

Sorry for the bad pun but it couldn’t be contained. We featured Gnome Masters work here this past summer and now he has released a Santa gnome for the holiday season. The price is $40 for an outdoors painted gnome and $45 for an indoors version. He measures 11″ tall and weighs in at 13 lbs and his scooter is painted a metallic glitter red with gold trim.

gnomemaster.com

This scooter wall art was recently spotted at a “HomeGoods” store which I hear is part of the TJ Maxx/Marshalls chain stores here in the States. It’s priced at $19.99.

Thanks to Karen J. for this find.

homegoods.com

This letterpress printed scooter pop-up was used to promote “Los Vesparados” – a scooter themed art show in Minneapolis circa 2009. By folding it together, you could have your very own paper scooter to ride around on your desk. Must have cost a fortune to do but oh was it worth it.

The art work and design was created by illustrator/photographer/designer Sean Tubridy:

seantubridy.com

Letter press and design was created by Todd Thyberg of Angel Bomb Design:

angelbomb.com

Here’s one more thing to covet. The poster for the event:

Martin was kind enough to send me some more photos of his stupendous scooterswag collection.

And here’s a link to Scooterswag’s first post about his collection.

Enjoy!