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.
Nick Zegel, the artistic director of Girl Skateboards has undertaken to create this “Contemporary OG” series. Very disparate and unstructured graphics that revolve around the central image of the Girl logo in 3D. This image is actually not the same, since…
The contemporary artist and close friend of Spike Jonze, Jules de Balincourt realized this beautiful series of boards for Girl Skateboards. Accustomed to painting his works on wood, the artist easily transposed his world on boards. This first series of the…
As usual, Girl manages to divert her legendary logo. With the “Twisted OG”, the idea is to play on rounded shapes, with elegance and modernity. The choice of the apparent stained wood on the top of the board, taking one…
Take pictures of Renaissance and affixed it to boards as a framework; the idea is not unique and has already been made. For cons, the realization is very well thought! The Girl symbol is always set great, but the center…
Girl Skateboards strikes again hard with this new boards series. Directly inspired by the monumental sculptures carved on poles by indigenous peoples of the Northwest Pacific coast of North America, the mix with pop colors is very bubbly! The series…
GIRL and OPENING CERMONY presents a glimpse of Spike Jonze’s photographic work through a series of 5 boards. Spike Jonze, whose iconic work has influenced a generation, has selected its 5 favorites pics, taken in its infancy for this series. A beautiful gift…
Like me, you are not necessarily familiar with Marcel Dzama. It’s a painter, sculptor and draftsman from Canada doing quite strange drawings or collages. Between hanged, martians or a minotor in rut, he seems to have fun! And we can…
For this winter, Girl Skateboards just launch a brand new serie of graphic boards. This esthetic skateboards contain the legendary logo and a really graphic and detailled work that somehow remember the work of the painter Piet Mondrian. Boards are…
