“I was asked to produce a series of designs for Switch Skateboards in the UK. The ‘Freedom’ board was the first design that popped into my head. The whole vibe was meant to be pretty light-hearted on this. I tried to keep the colours down to a minimum, throwing a couple of Bomb-Tree’s in for [...]
Very original solution for griptape by Civilian Asylum.
Black Sheep is a skate shop in Charlotte NC that has been very supportive of my work since the beginning. I have enclosed pictures of my original design that I did not like, with several of the completed deck. The deck is set up like a puzzle, meaning [...]
GIVE + TAKE and Rescue are the artworks of the american artist Chris Koelle.
Extinction Series by Todd Francis for Element Skateboards. All the decks are sold out but still great!
The Extinction series came after seeing a series of children’s books called How Do Dinosaurs…by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. They’re these really upbeat kids books showing dinosaurs placed in different modern day social situations, where the dinosaurs [...]
A beautiful series by Emilio Garcia. So simple! So stylish!
“The story behind the board is it was created for Fifty Fifty in Bristol UK, The store is one of the best independent skate stores in the UK and has been going for over 10 years. Recently they moved premises to a new store which was formally a comic book shop on Park Street in [...]
Jart Skateboards asked me to create an unique design, aggressive and competitive differentiator.
The intention of this collection that was getting aggressive and making a shocking series but without using the usual resources such as skulls and other typical motifs.
Then I thought that using famous artworks and scrawled with a black marker could achieve the desired [...]
An impressive work by Swedish artist Roberth Johansson.
“Well, space is gigantic and so shall our skating be. But not normal, more out of the ordinary! That’s why I made Retro Space Vectors. Out of the ordinary in space.” – Roberth Johansson.
This is the new masterpiece by graphic designer Brett Wilkinson aslo known as Onesidezero.
When I was a kid my local skate store only stocked decks with brand names printed in huge letters across the board so I’d buy blanks instead and paint my own graphics on.
‘Overgrowth’ is the kind of board I’d have painted at [...]
“The deck is based on a French stop-animation called Chapi Chapo. It was named “Chapi Chapo” as a play-on-words with the French word “chapeaux”, which means “hats”. I enjoyed watching it when I was a kid and was inspired to use it within my design.” – said Jarod Gibson.