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.
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…
It’s the artist and designer for the brand, Eric Gorvin aka Gordyland who was responsible for creating this new series ‘Jungle OG’. He did an impressive collage job (which you can see in the video below) to compose these 7…
Girl Skateboards really has a beautiful design culture! And she shows it with this series dedicated to the grand assizes of the twentieth century with of course the Eames Lounge Chair, the DSR or the RAR armchair. Former Art Dump…
Stef Mitchell is an Australian-born artist and photographer now based in Brooklyn. In her very spontaneous style, she made this series of 6 boards for Girl Skateboards which includes the first pro model of a rider like no other: Spike…
The new Girl logo series is once again a great discovery. Entitled ‘Folded’, it is simply inspired by the properties of paper, which can be cut and twisted to obtain shapes and shadows quite interesting. The clear color scheme on a dark…
After Alien Workshop, it is the turn of the Crailtap crew brand to collaborate with the brand Kodak, which takes advantage to release its new Super 8 camera. Here’s what Brian Cruz, the vice president and manager of Kodak Consumer…
On pourrait croire que Girl a fait le tour des déclinaisons de son logo mais non ! C’est Eric Gorvin aka Gordyland et designer pour Girl Skateboards qui s’y est collé cette fois. Intitulée ‘Constructivist’, cette excellente série joue habilement…
Without falling into the idol, you can see that I am particularly fan of the artistic direction of every series Girl put out, from the choice of the theme to the realization, going by the way they highlights the boards…
The photographer, screenwriter and art director Craig Abell-Champion was invited by Girl to customize 3 of the famous OG Dolls brand. To push the concept even further, these wooden dolls were staged in a short film called “The Devil Loves…
