Archive for the “Design” Category

Travis Rice and Mike Parillo have launched an online art gallery called Asymbolgallery.com which offers iconic snow, surf and skate imagery, including limited edition paintings and photosthat will be available for people to order worldwide.

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Tags: Adam Haynes, Ari Marcopoulos, ASEC, Asymbolgallery.com, Claire Johnson, Danny Zapalac, Jackson Hole, Jamie Lynn, Jeff Curtes, Matt French, Mike Blabac, Mike Parillo, Nick Russian, Online Art Gallery Asymbol, POW, Scott Lenhardt, Tim Zimmerman, Travis Rice, Trent Mitchell, Wyoming

What’s the best way to get some free designs in and get a better feel of what riders want to see on their boards next winter? Throw a design competition!
Nidecker just launched their snowboard design competition, but in this case they are doing it the right way!
Not only have they partnered with Core77 - a recognized global online portal that provides a gathering point for designers - but they will be really rewarding the best designs and designers:

• The Top 5 designs will be applied to Nidecker snowboards and displayed at the international SIA Show in Denver and at the ISPO Tradeshow in Munich in February 2010, along with profiles of the winning designers.
• The Grand Prize winner will receive a $2500 cash award, and their design will be included in the 2010/11 Nidecker line. The 4 Runners Up will each be produced in a limited edition run.
• All top 5 Finalists will receive a Nidecker snowboard produced with their design, and the designer’s name will be featured on the side of their board.

This is pretty much a legit win-win deal for all you graphic shredesigners out there!
Check out this link to get all the details on how to enter and hurry up now, deadline is July, 12th.

Oh yeah and fuel your inspiration by clicking below and checking out this sweet video featuring Jonas Mattsson and his NDK board! BAM BAM!

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Tags: design competition, jonas mattsson, nidecker

The results for the 4th annual Volvo SportsDesign Awards are in!
More than 300 internationally renowned companies and designers had submitted their works for consideration for the most acclaimed international awards in sports design. This year’s edition focused on innovative ideas in the eco design sector.

The main criteria in judging sustainable design consisted of functionality, form, innovative step, ergonomics, shape and production, material, manufacturing, distribution, product life cycle, recyclability and usability.

Sick Stick by Salomon Snowboards wins the “Board Equipment” category!
I bet Arbor snowboards is really pissed about that!
Salomon used bamboo as material for their board cores and that is something Arbor does since a long time - 8 years to be precise - and is recognised for. They also felt the need to make it clear in a statement before the start of ISPO. So don’t get fulled by this “marketing” award earned by Salomon…

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UniQ Riding is only in it’s second year but they have big hopes and objectives for the future. Their mojo: customisation!
Customisation is THE big trend of these past couple of years and many different offers exist on the market. Board manufacturers like Burton with it’s series13 or Elan with it’s Blue print give you the possibility to custom design all or part of some of the boards from their range. On a more global level Apex snowboards, for example, offers the possibility to complete “shape” and design a personal board.
We also already presented you in the past some companies that do not produce their own boards but give you the possibility to have a personalised top sheet design on “virgin” boards from big brands like KaOrigin. And finally you have examples of companies offering simple customised top-sheet graphics to stick to your board (like Tattoo boards in Italy, or Original Snowboard Art in the US).

But let’s get back to UniQ BrOs!
Who could talk better about all of that than their star team rider and marketing manager, uhu? This is Franky Moissonnier presenting UniQ Riding and his own full custom board matching with his Vans wear and Sylass beanie! Pimp.

Guess Indigo figured out that there is a market niche for super wealthy people who go ride once a year in Gstaad, Cortina or Megève for example, and who want only what’s best and most stylish to fit their fur coats and SUV’s leather seats.
So the german brand developped a range of high end hand-made boards, protection gear and accessories to meet the needs of those VIPs and jet-setters!
The quality of the products is obvious and the care taken to produce every piece of their range is unique for sure.
If you meet anybody wearing or riding this stuff this winter, take a picture and send it to us.
We’ll start a gallery, ha ha!

Art, creativity, aesthetics, snowboarding. Find the mismatch.
Well, there is no.

Snowboarding is about expressing your own style and creativity in the natural terrain.
And a snowboard is also a perfect canvas to create art.
There are many examples, from Jamie Lynn to Jeremyville.

This year Burton has released a late limited edition board with Kidrobot. Next year, Rossignol snowboards will release the Retox designed by Jeremyville. The Retox is a pure jib board with a blunt shape and crazy graphics.

We met with Megan from Jeremyville and Arno from Rossignol snowboards during the Jeremyville expo vernissage in Artoyz to discover more about this very special board that we presented to you in exclusivity a couple of weeks ago.

Check out the video!

Tag team design contests have just been launched by two of the big players on the scene.

In the red corner, Burton and main sponsor Suzuki have announced their online-design-contest based on the Burton’s Series 13.
All contest submissions will be judged online by the public on a monthly basis. 5 monthly winners will make it to the finals at the end of the season. The best designs will be judged in the first week of March by a panel consisting of Burton team riders, product managers and Suzuki representatives. The best Series 13 design will receive a Suzuki Grand Vitara Freeride Edition in the design of the winning board-graphics as well as his personal Series 13 board!

Andin the blue corner, the challenger Artec Snowboards has teamed up with the generous folks at Sony Playstation, and is proud to announce the launch of the Artec Snowboards Design Contest 2008!
Unleash your imagination and design a snowboard topsheet graphic that ties in with Artec’s progressive design philosophy and technology. The winner of the Artec Snowboards Design Contest 2008, selected by a jury of Artec team riders and designers, will receive a money-can’t-buy Artec snowboard featuring the winning topsheet graphic design.
Plus, the top dog will also walk away with a Sony PSP set, including the PSP Slim & Lite, the futuristic racing game, WipEout Pulse and a tidy PSP accessory called the Sony Go!Cam.

I’m putting my money on Hulk Hogan.

Ok guys & girls, this is hot stuff, super exclusive! Almost tooo hot!
This is not today, it’s already tomorrow!
More than 2 months before the first trade shows where all the brands will present their 08/09 collection, we bring you in “avant-premiere” the 2008/09 RETOX from Rossignol snowboards!

Rossignol snowboards have been collaborating with the Australian vinyl toy designer/illustrator Jeremyville for the graphics of their RETOX boards model for next season. The result is nuts!
If you were thinking about getting a new board this year, my advice is to ride that old board one more season and get one of those babies!

Jeremyville will be exposing his art in the Artoyz Gallery in Paris from November 29th. The boards will be showcased so if you happen to be around Paris, it’s worst going to check it out.

OK! Once again… This is our third post in a month about KAORIGIN!
We already described the concept, had a BrOADER[view] with Christian Alary…
So if we are good bloggers you should know already everything about it !

But during the “mondial du snowboard”, we were invited to their après-ski party and had a short break to film this 2 minutes long interview with the big boss Jacques Lacroix .

So here are the words of the president….

If you are somewhere close to Barcelona next week, you should go to the first AAARGHtSHOW on Monday the 8th October! Pirates will show originals of the Book plus additional work at iKARA
Gallery!
Later that night everybody will change to Fellini, for the spanish premiere of WALK the PLANK! To add it up, La La Land of Runway films will be screened as well.

@BrOADER we love these small core brands which have an original philosophy/approach to snowboarding - and even more when they are from Europe!
So we got in touch with the Italian guys from Rough and asked them for info regarding their 0708 range.

Appreciate it! It’s only on snowbroader.eu!

Rough Snowboards winter 07/08 production includes a total of 8 models based on seven different shapes.
Directional boards are 4, in XS, S, M, and L sizes. The XS has been thought and designed for cool chicks that want to rip on the mountain, while the S deck sets aside sex distinctions and will be appreciated by all freestyle enthusiasts. The M and L are dedicated and thought for the most demanding riders.
Twin tip boards are 4 in S, M,and L sizes. To top it all the Rejdo Army M Twin Tip limited edition is designed by a Core Crew of Italian riders…

Check all the boards down here !!!

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Elan snowboards and Salomon snowboards have almost simultaneously launched their art contests: the Artec Project Art Contest 3rd Edition for Elan vs. the 4th annual artwork contest for Salomon!

There is prize money and/or custom-made snowboards for grab, so pick up a pencil and start getting creative!  ;)