I was on a little nostalgia trip earlier, hunting out old skateboard graphics. They're surprisingly hard to find. I guess they vanish quite quickly because they're typically displayed as little thumbnails for online shops and not as nice big images. Anyway, I made it my mission to find the first pro-model deck I ever bought... and I did, kinda.The above image is my recreation of the Modern Chair series of graphics by Girl Skateboards. I had Jeron Wilson's (I didn't know who he was at the time, just that his board was the size I wanted). The decks are of course a beautiful tribute to classic Eames furniture and are apparently a bit of a collector's item nowadays. It's hard to call but I think I must've bought mine around about 1999. Does that sound right? It got well and truly destroyed.
It's weird to think that I bought something so 'designy' as my first skateboard, long before I had any interest or idea that I'd study design and become involved in illustration. Weird not because it was some mystical prophecy of things to come, more that at the time an angsty slogan or dumb cartoon would've been way more appropriate to where my head was.
I stitched these together using this graphic and this collection of thumbnails. The typeface was hard to match and is a little off. Still, I think they work pretty well. Click the image for a bigger version.
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Girl Skateboards (like Chocolate skateboards) made few of the best graphics ever ... that's why they are so much collectionnable
ReplyDeleteAnd collectionnated ;-)
THX for the link David
I'm the designer responsible for that deck series and they were released in 2001 I believe. I still get emails from collectors around the world, skaters and non-skaters, who are looking for the complete set. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteAwesome, I have the Howard deck, its stickered up a bit unfortunately but let me know if you want images.
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