Filed under: snowboarding | Tags: , art, burton, contest, graphic design, snowboard
This week in snowboarders who think they are artists:
1. Burton’s Series 13 is teaming up with Suzuki to present the Freeride Design Competition. The Series 13 program allows you to design yer own board graphics for a burton deck. Log on to board-design.com and submit your design. In March 2008 submissions that made it through the prelims will be judged by burton riders, board designers, artists, and other contestants to determine a winner. If you win (you won’t…I will…), you will get your customized Series 13 board, and a brand-new Suzuki Grand Vitara Freeride. Here is the design currently in first place:
you kiddin’ me??? this looks like a gotcha tshirt I had in 3rd grade…picture me rollin’ in a suzuki decked out with some gang symbols in march….yadidamean?
2. Artec Snowboards wants you to design a board graphic that showcases Artec’s “progressive design philosophy and technology”…The winner of the Artec Design Contest 2008 will receive their customized board and a Sony PSP pack…hella nerdy…the deadline is January 7th, 2008 so it can be judged by the team riders and designers.
3. Erin Valverde was recently in town showing her new Float movie…she also showed off some of her artwork, take a gander.
4. Spacecraft and Smith collaborated on the Smith Exclusivo goggle and helmet line. If you have not been to the website yet, I highly recommend that you click yer way over there…it is out of hand. This is further evidence of a) anything that Stefan of Spacecraft does is amazing; and b) insanity can be cool, if you are Spacecraft. To encourage impressionable kids like yerself to explore the site, a full Exclusivo kit is being given away to the first person to find all of the hidden treasures on the exclusivo site. Here is one…
*UPDATE*
Burton is going crazy with all their collabs this year. Here, the fashionistas at Burton are again working with Andy Warhol…Burton: we don’t give a damn if yer dead. (via Highsnobiety)
