Condor cleaner skate sculpture by Julien Deniau
Julien Deniau aka Unavista is a French expatriate in sunny Barcelona. Photographer, painter and skateboarder, he mixes his last two passions since 2005 by creating beautiful sculptures from skateboards. Entitled ‘Condor Cleaner’, his last work is a majestic bird of…
Hey you & Who me custom skateboards by Kid Nowe
The founder of Biribi, Kid Nowe has agreed to create this diptych of boards for INKING BOARD. Passionate about cartoons and traditional tattooing, he has on one side painted a Jiang Shi, Chinese vampire found in old cartoons. On the…
Ghetto Blaster en skate par Spotwaste
The French brand Spotwaste put a lot of effort into creating this enormous 240W ghetto blaster from skateboards. Pieces of skateboard recovered from all over France have been used to create this huge and unique Bluetooth speaker. To get to…
Limited edition skateboard by P.H.A.S.E 2 x Harold Hunter Foundation
PHASE2, the precursor of the “style writing” (now know as graffiti) has designed a board to support the Harold Hunter Foundation. He started creating art on boards in the 80’s. For this deck, he use his collage technique (which we already…
Dichrotomie custom skateboards by Laurent Claveau
Le diptyque s’est vendu lors d’une vente aux enchères sur la gastronomie. The former Artistic Director of Antiz Skateboard, Laurent Claveau is now an illustrator/tattoo artist on his own. As part of the exhibition INKING BOARD, he created an artwork…
Too Late series by Timber x Element Skateboards
Chad Eaton aka Timber hit again! With this new series ‘Too Late’, he created for Element Skateboards, fine graphics, as usual, in shades of dark colors and sepia. His emblematic character of Big Foot is as always present, as the…
Disposable custom skateboards by Hozho
The tattoo artist Pierre Berruyer aka Hozho wanted to pay homage to the emblematic logos of the 80s, mixing them with his passion for Japanese prints and irezumi. So, on one side, he mixed Vernon Courland Johnson’s ripper with a…
Recycled decks by Iris Skateboards
From his San Francisco studio, George Rocha created new boards from old recycled boards under his brand Iris Skateboards. A simple and effective concept of upcycling where as a creator say : ‘The whole point is to take something that would…
Interview with Romain Hurdequint at the European Custom Board Collective Show # 2 in Darwin
I was interviewed by @clemribe and @duriflea, the two talented videographers from the Chalk Custom Board Project. They asked me to introduce myself and tell them what I was doing at the European Custom Board Collective Show. An interview in…
Pin up series by Jimmie Tatts x Cafe Skateboard
The English brand Cafe Skateboard, created in 2012 by Rick Smith, has just launched a series of boards in collaboration with tattoo artist Jimmie Tatts. Named ‘Pin up series’, it is based on pin-up illustrations made by the tattoo artist…