To begin my drafting stages, I took my favourite designs from my initial ideas and created them as these board and wheel designs. The first I experimented with was the 4 suits design, I like the simplistic design for the board and the minimalist style on the wheel, which was mostly made up of negative… Continue reading Drafts – Skateboard

When I finished my initial idea generation, I realised that the designs that I created where largely different from my initial research, this is because I didn’t really have a clear idea of what I wanted to create. Once I started creating ideas though, I began to gain a clear idea of what I wanted… Continue reading Further Design Research

When trying to decide on my target audience, I realised that there were two different demographics to take with this. The first being 14 – 21 year old Punk/Pop-punk styled young teenagers and adults. The reason I initially when for this audience was because this was the main group of people during the 70’s, 80’s… Continue reading Target Audience Analysis

When looking at my research I tried to collect an eclectic selection of research items, varying from skateboard designs, t-shirts, hats, shoes, jumpers/hoodies and skateboard wheels. When looking at all of these different items I had no real idea of what I was looking for and so everything in my research is different from each… Continue reading How My Research Has Impacted My Work

The first typography artist I looked at was a tumblr blogger who simply goes by the name ‘Snevi’. His real name isn’t posted anywhere however I actually added one of pictures to my research on Pinterest when I was looking into designs and researching skateboard prints. I think his images are stylish and clean, and considering… Continue reading Artist Research and Analysis

When looking at skater clothes, I have to consider all the types of clothing I want to create designs for. So far I have decided that I want to create a t-shirt, jumper/hoodie and hat design. Therefor all of those will be covered below, however I have also included shoe designs, this is because I… Continue reading Initial Skater Clothes Research

When looking at wheel designs, it’s important to remember that the wheel has to match or at least synergise with the actual board design so they don’t clash and so they can be sold as a pair. So while it is important to look at designs and how they incorporate the shape of the wheel… Continue reading Initial Skateboard Wheel Research

To begin with my initial research, I went onto Pinterest and began to look at an eclectic range of designs in order to cover every basis of what kind of skateboard I want to create. To start with I do not know what I want to make at all. I know I want to create… Continue reading Initial Skateboard Research