"Keepers of the Way" Posters
Written by MassBike
December 02, 2025
For the rest of 2025, we're offering a special limited-edition gift. The first 30 donations of $150 or more will receive a handmade poster designed and printed by Carlos Villamil.
REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WE’VE LOST - POSTER PROJECT
This collaboration project was born a couple of years ago as an idea from local designer Carlos Villamil to honor the memory of traffic crash victims while supporting the activist work of MassBike.
Carlos is an avid biker and, as anyone in the biking community, he is profoundly affected every time there are news of another fatality in traffic. Carlos wanted to highlight the huge labor that MassBike does by advocating to make our streets safer for pedestrians and bikers by supporting the organization's fundraising efforts with the design, printing and donation of these posters. The poster depicts a Ghost Bike, as the ones set up as roadside memorial sites of cyclist fatalities, under the title Keepers of the Way. It is a gesture of gratitude and remembrance of those whose tragic crashes have provided momentum for making riding in traffic safer for all of us.
Remembrance of Those We’ve Lost is an 18 in x 24 poster printed by hand in a limited edition of 30 posters. Each poster is numbered and signed, including the artist’s embossed stamp. The poster was designed using negative forms and color areas to highlight the profile of a winged white bicycle.
Carlos Villamil is a Boston-based designer and educator whose work spans product, graphic, and fashion design. Originally from Colombia, he has contributed to design and education initiatives in the United States, Italy, Spain, Germany, Türkiye and his home country. He earned a B.S. in Industrial Design from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá (1999), a Fashion Design Certificate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston (2012), and a master’s degree in Sustainability & Environmental Management from Harvard University (2018). Carlos currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Industrial Design program at Wentworth Institute of Technology. In addition to his Zero Waste clothing and sustainable design work, Carlos has been developing a body of handmade, limited-edition serigraphy posters. These pieces draw inspiration from design history, electronic music, and bicycles among other cultural influences.