Santa Cruz Surf Shop Dolphin Window Display

Corner window display airbrushed on foam core and gator foam. Large scale 10 x 10 feet. Seaweed all hand cut foam core. Liked to work big. Thinking of pulling the old paints out once again. Open Studio 2010?

Praise the Board Skateboard Show Opening Night photos by Michael Chantry

Here are some photos of Friday nights open house at the Praise the Board Show September 4 th. Great fun. The show will be up until September 27 th at the MAH on Front Street in Santa Cruz across from Woodstock Pizza.


Keith Meek


Rick Blackhart, Keith Meek and Ray Stevens II


Keith Meek, Jennifer Phillips, Jimbo Phillips, Colby and friend


NHS's Paul Merrill and crowd


Kids checking out the Meekster Phillips art


Vintage skateboards from Bill Ackerman of Bill's Wheels


80's Santa Cruz Point of Purchase hanging piece I did precomputers. I like the photo behind matching inverts. Zach Wormhoudt printed those and donated them to the show. Thanks.


Beginning of the night crowd they say there were over 500 folks that attended which is awesome.


View from above. There is a great Santa Cruz history show up here and great art to be seen.

SANTA CRUZ BOARDROOM SKATE CONTEST

SANTA CRUZ BOARDROOM SKATE CONTEST
SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
from 11 - 3:00 pm
in conjunction with the “Praise the Board” event being held at The Museum of Art & History Santa Cruz. September 4 - 27
The contest is being held from 11-3 pm behind the shop in the parking lot.
The 16’ wide bank to wall ride and 16’ wide ¼ pipe with extension are just a few of the ramps to be featured.
CASH, PRIZES AND CUSTOM HANDMADE GLASS TROPHIES FOR THE WINNERS.
825 41st Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (831) 464-2500

Sponsors: The Museum of Art & History Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Design + Innovation Center, Maximum Impact Design, StudioCruz, Parachute Creative, BroPrints, and Jimbo Phillips

Praise the Board poster by Jimbo Phillips with sponsors

This is the poster that is going to be posted around town. The other one is the high end 3 color silkscreen version.

Thanks,

Judi O

Santa Cruz Design and Innovation interview

Thank you to the Santa Cruz Design and Innovation Center for asking me to be on the home page. Quite an honor with so many talented designers in Santa Cruz. I hope to encourage younger designers to follow their passion. Work hard and don't give up.

I've been creating action sports graphic design since before computer graphics. My dad was the one that told me in the mid 80's that the computer was the way to go and he helped me buy an Apple SI that at the time was around $4,500.00 with a 80 MB hard drive! Seriously. When I was working on the Beckmann's Bread packaging it would take 20 minutes to save.


I would read design magazines or dust my office while it saved. Needless to say my office was pretty spotless.



Never stop learning and don't try and coast. Stay in tune with design trends, colors, patterns, and do what you love. Stay on your path.

Think green, recycled, sustainability if it is affordable and aligns with your client it is a style direction that I feel is a win win. Do more than talk the talk. Walk the walk.

Ripper Art Show on sale today

Stoked to be part of this show. My art piece. All proceeds of this piece will go to Board Rescue.


Our mission: Board Rescue is a non-profit 501(c) (3) public benefit corporation dedicated to providing skateboards & safety equipment to children; targeting low-income children and at-risk youth

New links from that Powell show.

Ripper Art Show Reception
Ripper Art Show Art
Rip the Ripper Art show

Ripper Art Show Jimbo Phillips and Shepard Fairey

This is a great piece. Jimbo!
I am looking forward to seeing all of them. Thanks D.



Here is Shepard Fairey's piece.

I hear the show was a hit. I didn't go but have been getting emails and text messages from skate buds. Thanks Marcus you rule.