Girl Skateboards is a skate brand created in 1993 by four riders: Megan Baltimore, Rick Howard, Spike Jonze and Mike Carroll. Actually, it’s one of the most creative brand out there and inevitably it comes from California. So with Chocolate Skateboards, Ruby Republic, Royal Trucks and Fourstar, it’s one of the brands of the distribution company Crailtap.
For instance, Rick Howard said for an interview in 2000: “Part of the reason we started Girl was so pro skateboarders would have a future. Take Royal, for instance. When Guy Mariano and Rudy Johnson’s legs don’t work anymore, at least what they’ve done for skateboarding and their ideas can continue with something they can fall back on. All the Girl Distribution companies are based around people who have helped Girl get to where it is today.”
The simple logo, the simple name and the fun direction of their graphics and videos make them to be one of the most famous skateboard brand of the industry. By the way, it was created by Andy Jenkins who was the in-house artist of the brand. He stayed a couple of years but left the company in 2017 to join Element Skateboards.
Some videos like Yeah Right! in 2003 are super renowned. Directed by Ty Evans and Spike Jonze, the video used never-before-seen effects and a quality soundtrack.
We don’t forget that Girl Skateboard is also at the origin of the creation of the brand Chocolate skateboards. Launched by Mike Carroll in 1994, he fulfilled his desire to expand the Girl Skateboards team by developing a new brand with a new vision of skateboarding.
American artist Caleb Gutierrez collaborated with Girl Skateboards to create this series called “The Blooming Series”. In an interview for the release of the series, he explains : “While Cory (Kennedy) has been incarcerated, we have keep in touch through letters…
Designer Eric Gorvin, aka Gordyland has created a new series for Girl Skateboards, inspired by legendary psychedelic artist Victor Moscoso. He says he was introduced to his work by Mike Carroll, who is a fan of “eye-popping” colors. That’s how…
Girl Skateboards presents a new variation of their emblematic logo with this series called Dot OG. It is the artistic director of the brand Eric Gorvin aka Gordyland who took care of it and explains to us that: “The original…
Legendary art director Sean Cliver continued his Skull of Fame series (premiered in 2015) for Girl Skateboards with 5 new boards. The brand explains that “Each skull started with a sketch in Cliver’s sketchbook. Sean then penciled the full-size artwork,…
After Element and its collaboration with National Geographic, it’s Girl Skateboards’s turn to raise awareness of nature with this series called ‘Ecol-OG’. The animals represented on the boards were hand-drawn by Eric Gorvin, aka Gordyland. In addition to the ultra-detailed…
We continue on the game of ply of colored wood. For this ‘Ombre OG’ series, a vertical gradient of 2, see 3 colors has been applied to the Girl Skateboards boards to give them a real texture. As we are on a…
For this new series ‘Oil Slick’, the artist Eric Gorvin worked on the concept of oil slick to integrate the famous logo of Girl Skateboards. The graphic game is really interesting since we see a number of different layers appear…
Designer Eric Gorvin aka Gordyland has just completed the latest ‘Shutter OG’ series for Girl Skateboards. The concept is based on a game of their wooden Girl figurines photographed, then presented in transparency with plys of colored wood. White strokes…
The illustrator, sign painter and owner of the New Zealand skate shop The Good Room collaborated again with Girl Skateboards for a series around the lighting. Gleen Smith chose to symbolize mythical lamps in a very structured way, while leaving…
It’s to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Subpop music label (which notably produced Nirvana at it’s beginning) that Girl Skateboards released this new series entitled ‘The Girl Sub Pop Series’. Illustrator Sasha Barr, close to the label, was responsible…
