About Piers
Since leaving London back in 2000 I have been moving around wherever work has taken me.
Firstly, I moved to Italy to work for Alpinestars for three and a half years, designing and producing their website, a lot of their advertising, a few products, and riding MotoX as often as possible on my KTM125SX.
I was then offered the job of Interactive director at Fox racing and moved to California which had always been a childhood dream. After a year, a redesigned website, some fun micro sites, a load of adverts, creative direction on some catalogs and the design of the 80sq foot Fox booth at the San Diego ASR Tradeshow I was happy to move back to Europe.
Barcelona to be precise. Whilst there I worked as a freelance designer/producer for Hybrid studios in LA on some excellent projects including The Mr and Mrs Smith website, The Buffy the Vampire slayer portal and some other fun projects. I also designed and produced sites for top Formula Nippon/Japan GT driver Andre Lotterer, an Interior design company in Barcelona and a few others.
From out of the blue I then received a great offer to move to Leo Burnett in Frankfurt as Art director on the Marlboro racing/Marlboro after dark websites for Russia and Mexico. I stayed there for a couple of years before moving to Kiska where I have been for 4 years working as a senior designer on projects across 3d, Motion GFX, CTG, powerwear, print and web, mainly for KTM.
You can view an old selection of my work before I came to Kiska in 2008 here or an overview of more recent projects here.
Thanks for stopping by.
piers {at} derestricted {dot} com
+43 (0) 664 140 7009
Skype: pierssp
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Hi Piers,
quickly, what camera do you have it takes very cool pics.
Many thanks
Luce x
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Hi Lucy,
I just have a Canon powershot which was about 300 euro. Pretty basic but you can do a lot with it. I use photoshop usually to make the photos nicer too.
p
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Hi Piers
I am a regular to derestricted, always really interesting stuff. I am also an avid motocross fan and rider (of sorts). I just wanted to ask you how you managed to get to work for Alpinestars and Fox. I am currently working at Dyson (UK) as a senior digital media designer but would love a design job somewhere in the motocross world. Any advice, contacts you would be willing to pass my way?
Thanks
Chris
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Hi Piers,
nice bloggg.
manu
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Hey Its Laura from Italy….
how are you???
write me on sun76la@yahoo.com
lets keep in touch !
La`
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hey Piers,,,,,it’s phil (bucknall)….. liking the website and -273 range…looking very slick
take care mate u on facebook?
Phil.
easy
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Hey Piers, are you on Twitter?
G
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hey, na, no twitter for me.. Im on facebook though.
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Hi Piers-
Thanks for sharing your visually stunning website. Really like the astronomy photos. I was hoping that in your quest for knowledge you had included the Bible in your readings. The perfection and wonder of our body, our world and universe (see website photos) is evidence to something beyond our basic comprehension and the Bible is the link to that knowledge. It explains our life’s simple purpose, to avoid sin and live for Christ, so that when He returns He will raise us from the dead as He was raised, and allow us to live forever with Him. Yes, forever – this life is just the beginning my friend. I pray you discover this truth, for it will give you peace and happiness beyond your wildest dreams. May God bless you and yours…:)
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ptsp Reply:
November 20th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Happy you like the site. Yes, I have read the bible a few times, it has some great stories and reinterpretations of Ancient myths, but I find the earlier Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and Sumerian tales of the gods to be more revealing.
If you want to read more about Mesopotamian mythology and other related pre-history, there is a whole category here:
http://blog.derestricted.com/category/prehistory/
As an aside, my great Aunt spent decades researching our family tree and traced it all the way back to Hercules, who was a demi god. True story. At least that’s what she said.
I guess in that respect you could say I found traces of a god within me, and yes, that certainly made me happy : )
Overall though, I subscribe to the Epicurean view, that the original gods did and still do exist but no longer concern themselves at all with human beings.
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Hi Piers,
Great site and even better pictures. Really like the older selection of pictures from the X Games. Just came across you site looking for gallery widgets etc. What one did you use exactly on your following page?
http://blog.derestricted.com/2010/01/zauchensee-2/
Do you ride (snowboard) much in Cali? Did a couple of seasons out there working in Lake Tahoe a few years back.
Take it easy
Chris
http://www.chrisskinnerblog.com
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ptsp Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Cheers Chris, no more cali for me, I am over in Europe now, so ride all of the resorts in Salzburgland every weekend in Austria. I use Carousel Gallery (jQuery) for the photo slide-shows which works pretty good, although I see it is messed up right now since I updated it. doh.
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check this :
http://yourmeatismine.com/
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[...] design will earn its creator a -273 T-shirt so put your dream bikes together and send them to Piers.I guess it’s kind of the hip hop of bike design, he says, just sample whatever you like, remix it [...]
Schöne Website!!
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Found your website purely by chance today (they posted your photo’s on motoblog.it) I then spent the next hour going back through all the pages…. The selection of stuff is superb. Inspiring after yet another uninspiring day in the office! All the best Adrian P.S. Say hello to Gerald for me.
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Love your articles/pics fella! Espec the ones on MX (Im just getting back into MX after injury)
Loving the brand too (Im also a designer)
Might have to get myself some of your -273 t/shirts, stickers – I think they’ll look superb on the KXF.
Keep up the good work!
s
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Wow THX for those fabulous Images / Articles in your Blog!
I am an absolute KTM addicted Person (not at least because living inbetween Salzburg and Mattighofen) but also because I like to ride my 640 Duke in Salzburg and Upper Austria as well.
Go on with your (amazing) Job at Kiska and feed uns with more stuff like this!
- Christoph
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Hi peirs,
i just stumbled across your site whist looking for pics of flat track bikes. best collection of pics i have found! i think we share the same obsession of older style and minimalist simplicity in bikes-maybe you too feel a little jaded with our quickening lifestyles and hanker after more simple times. anyways- it looks like you have a fantastic life and passion for your interests. keep it up you lucky git!! Andy. wowandyonline@googlemail.com 07886353216
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hey Pierce. Love your site. Always great bike stuff on here. Thought you might dig this. Recent project I worked on. Let any friends you have in the states know about the contest. Thanks dude!
http://bbor622.blogspot.com/2011/05/sapporo-moped-summer.html
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Spelled your name wrong. Damn it!
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Awesome blog with some amazing photography. Well done!
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thank you all!
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Hi again!!
I just write you in another place in your website.
I’m Juan from Spain. We have a travel agency specialized in road / off road trips with cars and motorbikes.
I just see some of your photos from Iceland with a couple of KTM. We are looking now some of this kind of photos. Could you be interested in sell some of them to use in our website?
Thanks a lot!!!
You can contact me in campuzanodosal@yahoo.es
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Hello Piers,
My name is Djien Injo, live in Amsterdam and drive a KTM super duke R and a exc 400.
Since some time i’m following your blog which I like very much.
I would like to ask you if you know whether Kiska ever designed a under-the-belly exhaust like they did for the LC8 and your duke.
I like to have one made for my superduke, could I use one of the LC8-type?
(like they did on one of the bikensteins).
Thanks, Djien.
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admin Reply:
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:34 pm
@Djien sorry dont know about an under exhaust for super duke, im pretty sure we didnt make one at Kiska. Would look cool though!
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Thank you for your quick response.
I like your last ‘carenstein’ which resembles my super duke: all black with a white tail
and an orange R.
djien
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Hi Piers,
I’m a student at the University of New Hampshire (U.S.) and I love your blog; I hope someday I can lead half the lifestyle and career you do man. I’m an avid skier and motorcycle enthusiast and I was wondering if you have any advise about working in the kind field you do?
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Hi James, thanks, happy you like the site. The only advise i would give is just get really good at whatever it is you want to do within the field, and then just check the websites of all and any companies in the field you are into so see if there are any job openings and then just apply everywhere you can. If you have no luck, then get even better at what you do and try again. Rinse and repeat.
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hi there..
like ur site.. very much a ktm rider myself.. especially interested in the bikenstins stuff.. i also did a lil bikenstines myself… check it out!!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150351579204671.350870.783274670&type=1&l=64b5a125e0
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If I could have only one bike blog, this would be it.
It’s got everything I need.
Kind regards to you and your family.
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admin Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Thank you sir, very kind. COments like yours make it worth all the time I put into this. Cheers.
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very nice BLOG…
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http://vimeo.com/34941680 <-check this out
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Don’t know if you’ll be interested in this video, but sharing anyway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te0V71sGoxA&feature=player_embedded#!
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ptsp Reply:
January 15th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Thanks finally pushed play on it with your link. Very cool.
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hi, my name is luis and im from mexico & california (san diego) i really enjoy looking at your blog everyday.
i would like to have some stickers from your logo
and maybe i can take some photos racing my dirtbike with it and you can upload them to your blog.
it would be cool you answering my post.
thank you!
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ptsp Reply:
February 4th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Hi Luis thanks for the message. We actually didn’t make any stickers yet im afraid. Maybe at one point.
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