2 Days Left: Blank Canvas: Design a Bell Full 9 Helmet and Win!

Jul 8, 2015
by Bell Bike Helmets  
Danny Hart and Bell Helmets want you to design the graphic for the helmet Danny is going to race at the Vallnord World Championships. The Bell Full-9 is the perfect blank canvas to show-off your design and color skills. If you create the winning design, you'll not only see it on the head of one of the fastest downhillers on the planet, but also on your own ugly mug as you'll be getting one as well. Chis Wood at Airtrix will be personally painting each Full-9 to ensure that your design gets the professional execution is deserves.

Enter Now: Blank Canvas Contest Details

When your masterpiece is finished, upload it into the Bell Blank Canvas photo category here on Pinkbike. The top five designs will be voted on by Pinkbike viewers and announced on July 17, 2015. (Submission deadline is July 10, 2015) All of the 5 finalists will get a Bell Full 9 for their efforts. From the five finalists, the grand prize winner will be chosen by Pinkbike viewers through a voting process. This winner will see their artwork worn by Danny Hart, and will also receive a custom painted helmet of their own. The helmets will be painted by Airtrix.

Danny Hart s new Fenwicks Bell Full 9 Helmet.

Danny's current custom Bell Full-9


PUBLICATION RIGHTS

BELL Helmets reserves the right to reproduce any design submissions and pertinent content in future BELL Helmets. In other words, we reserve the right to show off the winning design as often as possible.
*This means that BELL will be using the winning submission for the 2 helmets produced (one for Danny and one for the winner) as well as the photography of the helmet that will be used to promote the winning graphic and that BELL WILL NOT use it for an inline graphic without working with the artist first.

Enter Now: Blank Canvas Contest Details

The submission deadline for designs is July 10th, 2015.

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76 Comments
  • 228 8
 I'm going to design the shit outta that helmet. Literally, I'm going to draw poo all over it. Imagine the look on Danny's face when he has to wear it. PB you better vote for it or else the soul of MTBing is officially dead.
  • 217 1
 I was thinking about drawing penises everywhere. Cuz I am 12. Let's combine our forces!!
  • 48 0
 The Bell Full 9 Alaskan Pipeline edition... I like it.
  • 27 1
 If you guys were to form a graphic design coalition, you could create something truly iconic that encapsulates the very soul of our iconic and courageous movement. I'm thinking a helmet covered in penises... Made. Of. Poo.
  • 11 0
 Gross.. i like it. DO it. I'll vote it.
  • 4 1
 If William Hung can make it, so can Danny. I'm ready to vote.
  • 57 0
 if a shitty mspaint dick helmet wins the competition and danny has to wear it while he races I'll donate my next paycheck to a charity of the winners liking.
  • 16 0
 Breast cancer all the things!! Save the boobies!
  • 12 0
 I'm with WTH here. Save the boobies. (Good thing there is no Butt cancer, because Butt is better then boobies)
  • 4 1
 You drunk right now? I guess I do like big butt tho.
  • 18 0
 HELL no. I'm ALL about butts. Boobies are interesting, but a great butt means a fit chick!
  • 10 0
 SERIOUSLY, if this poodick lid was to be created and Danny had to rep that shit in a race run it would be fucking hilarious.
  • 9 1
 The contest rules don't allow any obscene imagery, unfortunately.
  • 7 0
 Lame.
  • 5 3
 One thing is constant in the universe… poop is funny!
  • 4 0
 I'm drawing brown roosters all over my helmet.

Ill call it the "F Word" cause"It's food not rude".
  • 5 0
 Dick Pooh is not offensive, so just make the design and Bell doesn't put it up, we all can collectively shame Bell for not having a sense of humor. #hashtag
  • 2 0
 I can see it now. Danny's whole head will be censored out as he rides down the mountain. That would be just as funny knowing whats really on his helmet.
  • 4 0
 Brule you send me the helmet I'll paint the best helmet version of Superbad Jonah hill dick drawings you ever did see. It'll be the best free design concept work bell helmets could ever hope to steal from this competition. Shit, we could even call the helmet the "Bell end". Genius. I'll expect a pm shortly.
  • 3 0
 Lets call it The Bell "Pooenis"
  • 1 0
 I'll vote for the dick helmet, lets do this!
  • 89 1
 Just give it to @WAKIdesigns, so I don't have to hear his opinion of all the other helmets...
  • 5 1
 Funny! Because it's true
  • 33 1
 I'm gonna draw a clock on it because I ain't got time for this shit
  • 20 0
 Why has his current lid got a beer can stuck on it?
  • 4 6
 isn't it a camera?
  • 1 0
 lol that was what I thought at first too
  • 1 0
 That's what happens when you're a protected racer.
  • 14 1
 It wouldn't win but I think a close up face shot of aaron gwin and other racers plastered on all sides would be really funny.
  • 12 2
 While I was originally going to go with the penis motif, I am now thinking a nice,
plain Arial font, black on a plain white background that says " Danny Hart's helmet ". Then he'll know which is his when he's busy racing bicycles.
  • 10 0
 Lame. Penis all things!
  • 5 1
 Well, it is a BELL HELMET after all...
  • 11 0
 I would draw a camera on it but UCI wouldn't let him wear it.
  • 7 0
 This type of competition rides a very fine line with creatives, glad to see this disclaimer at the end there...hopefully its true. "BELL WILL NOT use it for an inline graphic without working with the artist first." Disguising free work as a contest ain't cool, props to Bell for hopefully not going that route.
  • 6 1
 Bell has enough designers, they don't need to jack internet folks. This is a rider helmet. That's it.
  • 2 0
 @IsaacO Very true in most cases. I definitely frown on most 'competitions' as they are cheap ploys to exploit the workforce. But they typically get what they pay for (not much). Like you said, this is a bit different.

The MTB community, like the design community, is a passionate bunch. Combine the two and surely some awesome results will follow. At the end of the day, I submitted simply because it's a fun challenge outside the normal design work I do on a daily basis.

Cheers and good luck!
  • 12 4
 www.michaeljohnadams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/The_Trooper.jpg

if i was danny id just have this and no contest.
  • 6 1
 What program should we use? I want to enter.... but like... paint sucks and my colouring in the lines skills suck also.
  • 3 11
flag futureMarine0313 (Jun 9, 2015 at 23:56) (Below Threshold)
 You should really know how to design if you are doing this thinking you'll win... If you cant color inside lines probably wont win. Gimp is free... And works OK
  • 24 0
 ^ Aaand there’s the missed sarcasm.
  • 3 2
 Or is it irony? I'm American so I'm not quite sure which is which.
  • 4 1
 since the parameters aren't met by my ancient colored pencil techniques for the love of gawd, someone minimize logos and turn out a nice jungle foliage lid...maybe throw a little five fingered fern in there......
  • 2 0
 All I can say is that it's a real love/hate relationship trying to do something like this, like many things. First I absolutely love what I've done, and the world is an absolutely wonderful beautiful place, then VARIOUSSWEARINGBLATBLATBLATBLAT.
  • 1 0
 Crap. I know I could've blown this out of the water but my parents computer is slow as hell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D:
  • 1 0
 I'm painting it black, cause black is black! Not orange, cause that's not black, unless you're color blind. That would be bad. The light is red, but you see green. You go anyway. Camera's at the intersection goes off like it's a party!
  • 1 0
 hi guys do you know how to open correctly the file .ai ?
i have open it with photoshop but i can't see differents levels ecc...
  • 3 0
 .ai is Adobe Illustrator.....
  • 2 0
 can we use corel draw to design it? or it must be adobe illustrator?
  • 2 0
 should just keep it a blank canvas, alllll black erraythang
  • 8 6
 You guys didn't embed the fenwicks logo on the ai file. Just FYI.
  • 6 1
 All fixed before the article went live - thanks for the heads up.
  • 3 1
 Disclaimer says Mick. Copy up top says Danny Hart.
  • 5 0
 Last year's contest was a design for Mick Hannah...someone forgot to update the disclaimer!
  • 5 0
 Good eye - fixed.
  • 2 0
 10% of sales from my design?
  • 17 0
 sure. 10% of $0 should net you a nice pay day Smile
  • 3 0
 i guess i'll just have to sell a kidney to buy a new bike!
  • 1 0
 I have my own great ideas, but its too bad I have no fooking idea how to use Illustrator. Oh well..
  • 1 0
 Does anyone else have problems with downloading and getting the digital template?
  • 1 0
 Whenever I open this file in Illustrator, it is just a blank page....
  • 6 0
 Isn't the article called blank canvas?
  • 1 0
 LOL yes, I mean nothing shows up at all, no helmet outline or anything, just a blank sheet.
  • 2 0
 Ha, I know. Just lay an image of Hart's face on there and trace around it!
  • 3 2
 So much to win these days... I'm getting a dizzy spell!
  • 1 0
 What program do you guys use to design?
  • 2 0
 Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
  • 1 0
 Bell , who sprayed up that helmet?
  • 1 0
 Is it too late to Fiverr this thing?
  • 3 3
 Paint it Orange and put a Rebel flag on top........
  • 1 0
 'merica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • 5 7
 No thanks, don't even need for free. I don't like Bell helmets.
  • 10 2
 Well isn't that just special?
  • 4 7
 Tits
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