With the NOZZLE CLOG series, Kevin Long, aka Spanky, has created three new designs for Baker Skateboards. True to his raw and spontaneous visual style, the pro offers a triptych saturated with images, as if spray paint had literally spilled over the surface of the wood.
The title Nozzle Clog announces the intention. The visuals appear without any apparent hierarchy. Distorted faces, animals, hybrid creatures, and smileys overlap in a dense accumulation. Each board becomes a surface invaded by drawings where excess acts as a language. The aesthetic evokes underground fanzines as much as punk culture and instinctive drawing.
The central board, covered with intertwined faces, creates an almost suffocating sensation. On the left, the composition is reminiscent of a flash tattoo board with strange and aggressive fauna. On the right, the repetition of smileys subverts the naive imagery to make it more ambiguous.
With NOZZLE CLOG, Spanky confirms that at Baker, graphic design remains a field of free, direct, and deliberately imperfect expression, in perfect continuity with the brand’s artistic direction.
