CrossFit inspired Signage Be Awesome and Wake-up Kickass Repeat coffee mugs soon!

First round of samples came in this week. I am going to get the final batch silkscreened so I get the rich colors and handmade feel that I want. As a designer with a retail background and experience doing trade show graphics and point of purchase design I felt a need some welcome signage with some attitude. They will be available on my Badasskatemom.com website.

I have some mugs in the works too.

Pleasure Point Fair back to my roots

I was born and raised at this small house on Hawes Drive on Pleasure Point and then we moved to Aptos and then I moved back to Pleasure Point and then back to Aptos. Today it was great to spend the day at the fair seeing old friends and sharing space with Brian and Sabine of Eastside Industries. I lived off South Palisades for 15 years between 19-36 a huge part of my skate life and early graphic design career started on the Eastside. I use to love to do window displays in the Santa Cruz Surf Shop. I airbrushed surfboards at night while commuting to San Jose State studying illustration and design. My first t-shirt designs were for the Santa Cruz Surf Shop and NHS or Santa Cruz Skateboards. So now it is full circle to be selling my Crossfit inspired Badgirl Mermaid and my Badass Skatemom Skate shirts. I don't take anything for granted. You have to pay your dues and work hard to make things happen. I am forever grateful. I love what I do and feel lucky for all the support. Badass Skatemom was coined because all my friends and even people I didn't know would say your a Badass Skatemom after seeing me skateboard slalom race or if they heard that I skated and was a mom. Not something I would call myself. lol

Dolphin airbrush foam core and paper.

Surfboard Airbrush.

This design was a sticker and a tshirt. Type designed by Jim Phillips.

Badass Skatemom launched two months ago. I guess I've been talking about it for years because a few people came up to me today and said you finally did it after talking about it for so long. Yes, a mini line for myself to play with designs I like that for you, me, moms, women, girls that kickass. Some designs are inspired from working out with friends that I do Crossfit with. I"ve had many ideas brewing and there are more things coming down the pike. Thank you to people who have never met me and friends that support me always I thank you.

Crowd Fav of course Jimbo Phillips graphic t shirts. Nice to see Jenny and a few of Colby's pieces.

Skate contest a large crowd as always. TC always giving to the skate community.

Crossfit and my Graphic Design Passion Collided

Running at 6:00 am is not always fun, it pretty much sucks. I am the slowest and oldest at the Crossfit I go to in Aptos. One morning I was running and thinking about the early dump trucks that come around the corner and thought slow down or Warning runners or Crossfitters with medicine balls or Kettle Balls. That's the mom in me and the designer. Bubble, Hey what about CF inspired signage, thus the Handstand and the woman pushing the Sled. I have so many ideas all the time but I rarely actually pull the trigger and make something. Well I made these yellow Crossing graphics at 4" vinyl stickers that I am getting on Monday and will post on my Badassskatemom.com site. Something I started 6 weeks ago.

Pricing out the outside 18" x 18" yellow Xing signs. The more orders I get the lower the price. Same goes for the Heroes Restroom signage. Now that was process. I wanted to do Heroes and Girls for the WODS but got some flack. How do you show both Men and Women as Heroes. Well this was the result after a few Instagram and Facebook posts. I had other ideas like Murph and Fran... these will be available and I will post.

For retail in Santa Cruz where Crossfit originated they will be at Crossfit Aptos.