on 25 July 2003
Skateboards by Tony Larson for Girl
This new(ish) edition of Creative Review’s 1997 survey of board art acknowledges that its once cultish subject has been mainstreamed by half a decade of Larry Clark movies, Jackass and extreme sports cable channels. But the latest designs are no less cutting-edge – they’re just slicker.
Almost any of the Burton 2001 range, art directed by Michael Jager, would look at home on a MacUser spread. Favoured themes have moved on from sex, sex, death, sex, sex and sex to, er, contemporary furniture (Tony Larson for Girl, pictured), though Eboy’s Peter Stemmler predictably reintroduces some hot chicks in vector form.
What remains constant is the infinite variety of styles represented. The only obvious omission is twee watercolours à la Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. There’s a gap in the market, dude.
adambanksdotcom @gbarl Bah, missed your Watchdog. Do they do it on iPlayer?