Designing a community for riding and wrenching.

Project

Cola Town Bike Collective

What started out in the owner’s garage in 2014 has grown to become an influential organization in South Carolina’s transportation and education. The Cola Town Bike Collective empowers the Midlands not only by donating hundreds of bikes annually to those in need of reliable transportation, but also by providing free repair services, tools, and installing a network of city-wide repair stations, CTBC continue to be a dedicated voice for cyclists in the Midlands, playing an active role in improving local infrastructure.

Deliverables

Learn more about Cola Town Bike Collective at colatownbikes.com

Cola Town Bike Collective Logo
Cola Town Bike Collective
CTBC - Cola Town Bike Collective Gear Logo
Cola Town Bike Collective Arch Submark Logo
CTBC Member Badge Graphic
CTBC Member Badge Graphic
10 Years of the Cola Town Bike Collective
CTBC - Open Community for Riding and Wrenching post
Woman fixing her bicycle on a CTBC repairi stand

Safety Yellow

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Safety Yellow

Blacktop

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Blacktop
CTBC Making an Impact Together

The Cola Town Bicycle Collective is a 501(c)(3) who's mission it is to empower people by providing affordable transportation to people whom may not have any other alternative. CTBC works with everyone from neighborhood kids, to those that are transitioning, to the working poor to ensure a way to get where they need to go.

Cola Town Bike Collective Eagle Tshirt
Cola Town Bike Collective Eagle Tshirt
10 Years of the Cola Town Bike Collective

Ten years of ctbc

To commemorate the 10-year anniversary of CTBC, founded in 2014, we designed a custom milestone identity celebrating a decade of riding and wrenching in Columbia.

We showcased this decade-long achievement across their website and brought the celebration off-screen with custom artwork for limited-edition anniversary shirts and hoodies.

CTBC 10 Year Anniversary Hoodie
CTBC SOS - Save Our Shop logo

To support CTBC’s Save Our Shop campaign, a fundraising initiative aimed at purchasing their building and making critical facility repairs, we created a logo and a suite of campaign graphics to help drive donations.

The campaign helped secure a permanent, restored home  to CTBC, guaranteeing that the co-op can continue providing free repairs, tools, and reliable transportation to Columbia residents for years to come.

Sprocket logo by Cola Town Bike Collective

An app to navigate the Midlands.

Built to empower Columbia’s cycling community, Sprocket is a free web app by the Cola Town Bike Collective that helps riders discover safe, bike-friendly routes throughout the Midlands.

Click worked with CTBC to lead the project’s visual identity and art direction from initial concept up to launch, providing a complete creative suite, including naming, branding, animated logos, social assets, wireframes, and UI design to be handed off to the app developers.

Screens of the Sprocket app by CTBC
Columbia is better by bicycle
Riverfront to Main Street Social Post
Hand holding phone with Sprocket app open
CTBC Bikepacking Brew Coffee Logo design

Illustrated by the talented Cait Maloney Creative / @caitmacncheese, Bikepacking Brew is a limited-edition coffee collaboration between CTBC and Indah Coffee.

With Cait's art we designed the Bikepacking Brew logo and prepared the labels for production.

Every bag sold supports CTBC’s mission to make biking accessible across the Midlands, featuring sustainable beans sourced from Finca La Unica, a female-owned Honduran farm run by 5th-generation coffee farmer Leticia.

CTBC Bikepacking Brew Coffee Label Design

Bike!Bike! Conference

In 2018, Cola Town Bike Collective hosted Bike!Bike! Southeast, an annual gathering organized by and for community bicycle projects.

The conference is a space for participants from shops and related advocacy groups to converge in a different city each year over a 4 day period to have workshops and strengthen their social network.

Bike!Bike! Tshirts
Cola Town Bike Collective - Bike Bike
Only 7 more days until Bike!Bike!
Only 5 more days until Bike!Bike!
Only 3 more days until Bike!Bike!
Grand Opening Event Aframe Sign for Cola Town Bike Collective
Sprocket banner
Road sign for Cola Town Bike Collective
Sprocket banner