Custom Skateboard

1. About the Design
2. Pattern Play Freestyle

I created a custom skate deck for the Ruston Skatepark / Deck the Halls fundraiser event in December 2022. All raised funds from my board went directly to the skatepark fundraising effort. I had a lot of fun creating this board and experimenting with new materials and methods.

I created this design with layers of hand cut felt and adhered them directly to the raw skateboard deck. I was very inspired by Piet Mondrian’s work (especially Broadway Boogie-Woogie) when creating this piece. I stuck with a constrained palette of black, red, blue, and yellow, and thought of the raw skatedeck as the “white.” All of the felt is cut from 4 inch squares of the material as the starting base point.

When laying out the design I initially thought that I would design the pattern within the computer. However, I quickly realized that it may be best to take a freestyle approach with the pattern to fit the form of the board and keep the design looser. I thought of this freestyle approach being similar to how a skater would explore the urban environment while skating around on their board: they might have an idea of how they want their run to turn out but are always open to new possibilities when skating and performing tricks. The design itself also begins to resemble a city grid from a bird’s eye view, tying the theme even more closely with freely skating and exploring an urban environment.

Pattern Play Freestyle
December 2022
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Pattern Play Freestyle
December 2022