When did the first exhibitions of skate art and skate culture begin to take place? I don’t proclaim to have the answer to that — though it would be interesting to research it. However, one thing that can be said for certain is that it was at least as early as the autumn of 1995 …
Grind: The Graphics and Culture of Skateboarding (1995) Read More »
One of the things I have said about skate art before — or if I didn’t say it, I certainly meant to — is that the industry was so prolific art-wise that you can seemingly look at historical board art everyday and still, even after years of doing this, expect to run into something you’ve …
Felix Culpa: Vision, Sean Goff, Bernie Tostenson and the Unknown Deck Read More »
Bernie Tostenson’s most widely known bit of skateboard art is almost certainly his Sims Christian Hosoi Street Flag design but he did many other iconic decks for others brands, including Vision, Kryptonics, Toxic and his own company, Brand X
As a follow-up to our last post on the skateboard art of Bernie Tostenson, I wanted to share a little variant on the superb Triple X team deck. Essentially it’s the same graphic, but in a different colourway and with the Brand X labelling — instead of “Triple X.” I cannot overstate how superb I …
Bernie Tostenson Follow-up: Brand X Team Deck Variant Read More »