Collaboration, A Major Tribute

Last December I wrote about an artistic collaboration with my friend, artist and illustrator Chris Piascik; my contribution to the project was a narrative introduction that would reflect the sentiment of Chris’s work within the self-published zine, Daily Drawings.

Both Chris and I were hopeful about the prospect of future collaborations and in the months that followed, we were able to come together for a tribute to one Massachusetts’ favorite sons — Marshall Major Taylor, a velodrome world champion in the early 1900’s from Worcester, MA.

Chris’ latest zine entitled, Good Habits, Clean Living, captures the ethos of a world champion, using the very words penned by Major Taylor himself in his autobiography, The Fastest Bicycle Rider in The World — I am excited to have written an introduction for this tribute and Taylor’s rules are depicted with a typography flair that truly embody them as words to live by.

Good Habits, Clean Living

In the past few years living in Massachusetts, I have really gained a respect for the history of this place and the narratives of many of its historical figures.

One in particular is Marshall Major Taylor, a velodrome world champion in the early 1900’s from Worcester, MA.

My short piece about Taylor’s values on good habits for clean living recently published on the Freeman Transport blog — it is amazing how these notions can still be useful in todays modern society.