Winning Design: Danny's Custom Bell Full 9

 i have the steve peat d3, its virtually identical

 an orange is not that close to a tangerine.

 lol

 lmao tld. really disappointed the rules didnt let us do a mspaint cock and balls helmet. I truly would've donated my next paycheck to a charity of the mspaint winners choosing.

 Not the best design or colors. Wish it had more black like Carpenters or Ratty. Really want to se Danny coming down the hill looking menacing. Now that would've been sick.

 it's not that difficult to paint a helmet all black. Even I could do it.

 Not all black...something like this, www.pinkbike.com/photo/12433349
Thanks though.

 my 1st thought! sikk!

 A free downloadable vector of a lion crest wins a design contest - "Sick!"

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Great job bell, you just printed stock art on your champions helmet.

 ahahah that tops all things that happened in this contest !

 I'm not fussed, the whole design is what's rad.

 not as sick as my poopy penis entry...

 Considering another popular option simply reproduced the text of some race commentary in a freely available font... This helmet looks fantastic...best of luck, Mr. Hart.

 @ny shred...its just a british lion...it looks like one and a brit chose to and is happy to wear it....so don't worry yourself

 Meh, there's not a lot of different ways to draw the Scottish lion without leaving the realms of traditional heraldic art.

 its not a Scottish lion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Arms_of_England

edit: ok looking into it the English and Scottish have very similar looking lions....so lets stick with it being british

 Heraldic art has a wartime purpose of being easily recognizable & distinguishable on the field of battle, so they're often very simililar, because they all wanted to use something fierce looking, but with different colors so that you could tell them apart on the field of battle. Red Lion is pretty stinkin Scottish, sir. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Standard_of_Scotland

 Did you guys see the other ones? Most were all just the same old pinstripe design, i actually voted for this one and i think it suites Danny well, but its a matter of opinion.

 @groghunter...thanks..you know your shizzle

 What's easier to create from scratch, a heraldic-style lion or an entire art typeface? You do the math @ecologist

 What's easier? Congratulate the winner or be a sore loser? At the end of the day there were a lot of sick designs, this is the one that Danny chose. If he's happy then so be it.

 @NickyVanLier -- I'd say in this case the appropriate question (and the point I was trying to make) would be "What's easier, to NOT create from scratch a heraldic-style lion or to NOT create an entire art typeface?" I'm not trying to rag on anyone's design, thought they all had merit in one form or another. Just that folks in this thread thought the winning helmet wasn't deserving because of the use of stock art, so I was pointing out that effort was probably comparable.

 @ecologist I don't know if you have any design experience background but fonts or typefaces are tools commonly used to make a message or even graphics, only depends the way you use them. A clipart lion is a drawing made by someone and if is used the very same way that is given free or not I can at least question originality on a design contest.. especially if is the main thing ... but I think the similarity to steve peats's troylee could have been more a concern for the people that run the contest or even DHart.

 I think the issue is using stock art, not how much it resembles Peaty's lid. And then submitting it into a design contest as your own original work and then actually winning - its ridiculous. It's something you just don't do as a professional designer. He could have downloaded it and put like 2 hours of his time into customizing it enough to change it and be his own. Congrats to the winner - I don't mean to be a naysayer or hater. I wish I would have won, it must feel awesome to hold your custom helmet in your hands... If anything, just take this as a lesson to be learned. Just like if you're an MC and you bite someones lyrics, another MC will eventually call you out on it. If your a designer and use peoples work as your own - expect to be called out on it by other designers.

 Lol mr negative!

 Would like to clarify @BeRudeNot2 that the last thing I want to come off as is a sore loser, and I'm not trying to dig on the winner either.
Merely pointing out that more effort went into my 'block of type' than people think – I made a 7x6 warp mesh to try and bend that sucker into shape! Coming up with designs is easy, making it happen is another story.

 danny's gay??

 42mins and no "that's what she said" comment? Pinkbike standards are dropping

 And still no comment...

 (Ahem... Cough, cough...)
That's what HE said!

 I didn't comment "that's what she said'" because I was busy banging your mother

 Except only Danny and the designer have them made. It's not like the Steve Peat edition D3 that anyone can buy.

 oh sorry i wasn't clear on that

 Rat boy just needs a hair net.

 Typical socal brocal douuche. Downhillers shouldn't give a fuuuu about their appearances. Go sign up for ballet. Danny shreds, if he cared about plastic surgery, I'm sure he would have taken care of that by now. And that helmet is sick.

 Umadberoh?

 Wow, Socalspeed. It takes some mini Socal balls to say something that stupidly mean, smh. You must ride street BMX.

 ^ what that guy said