PASADENA, CA.- The Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery presents 2025: Personal Mobility and B(yikes!): Eccentric Mobility, on view through August 31, 2006, co-curated by Dennis Crowley and Stephen Nowlin. Featuring work accomplished by students during a Spring-term studio led by Mark Ashcraft and Gaylord Eckles, 2025: Personal Mobility asked students to design a human/electric-powered personal vehicle for the year 2025. Students were challenged to think as futurists — searching for clues in today's technological, economic, environmental, and political trends that ignite their vision for shaping the future. The student work on display includes research and analysis, concept sketches, package layout and 3D sketch models, development and detail sketches, future scenario storyboards, exploded views, final renderings, and final models.

B(yikes!): Eccentric Mobility is housed in the Williamson Gallery's central space, and includes the admirably unconventional. Forgotten designs from the past and current feats of backyard engineering provide a glimpse into serious tinkerer/designers' creative depths, and pay homage to the ultimate simplicity of the bicycle as an icon of non-polluting sustainability. Objects in the exhibition range from antique bicycles employing innovative drive trains, to contemporary human-powered all-terrain machines.