Transworld Skate’s 11th annual SKATEboarding awards are tomorrow (fri. 6/11) in Hollywood and one of Globe’s most active veterans, Matt Mumford, has been nominated for “Best Transition” [skater of the year]. In his honor we thought it would be a cool idea to do some real grassroots kinda promo.. and why not? Everyone loves getting off the computer and getting their hands dirty every so often. Well, at least I do.
So what have I been up to that’s been keeping me so quiet lately? Well, one project that’s consumed the vast majority of my time has been the next Globe skateboard range. The image above is a little sneak of a board that was a last-minute addition and turned out to be one of my favorites in the line.
Wish I could show more, but leak all of that hard work too soon and potentially get bitten off. Not that they’re magic or anything, but a step in the right direction from last year’s line and the line before that.
Over the years I’ve used this t-shirt template to mock up concepts, to pitch clients and even to display tees from a future line in catalogs. I’ve gotten plenty of use out of it and now I only see fit to pass it on to others.
You might say, but GoMedia’s already provided designers with awesome t-shirt templates. Why would we want yours instead? Well, although they have multiple shirts and fronts and backs and yada yada yada.. this one’s completely FREE. All the paths are there. Changing colors is easy. Rerofitting the type and background to mesh with your t-shirt project is no sweat.
T-Shirt Presentation Template Layers
Like all good things on the internet worth paying for.. someone eventually comes along and bastardizes them and then gives it out for free. So all apologies to any other folks out there selling a similar item. I believe in a design community where people share and share alike. I think it’ll make us all better designers in the end. Though with that being said, if you need other garments or require more vivid lighting I do suggest you look into the GoMedia templates. For what you’ll get out of em the price isn’t bad.
I implore you to give this template a download and use it for any project that fits yer fancy. I ask nothing in return. If you need help figuring out how to use this, I suggest reading up you have a look here – though it’s my opinion that after playing around with it for just a couple minutes you’ll probably get it figured out. With that I wish you happy Photoshopping.
DOWNLOAD the Track6 T-Shirt Presentation Template by clicking HERE. (46mb)
Sick of having to strap on ridiculous clown-gear to roll at your local park and avoid tickets? Let’s get pad laws out of our skateparks dammit!
The following email (after the jump) came from John Bernards, the Executive Director of The International Association of Skateboard Companies. If you agree, do something about it. Send a letter. Re-post this shit on your own blog or email it out to whoever will listen. Let’s take some action.
Continue reading ‘Bill 874 – REMOVE PAD LAWS in CA Skateparks!’
Helped out a fellow designer with some styled out text for a quick project over the weekend. Nothing mind-blowing or incredibly different, but fit to share I think, nonetheless. If you like, have a look at uneekGrafix’s stuff here.
Folks, have you ever wanted a crack at designing ads for a skate company, yet you have no connections in the industry and have been waiting for a chance to get your foot in the door to just fall from the sky? Welp, it’s raining luck in SF these days. REAL skateboards is giving out that chance… right this very instant.
Head over to DLX to find out how to enter and get your creative on.
Just a matter of opinion, but they could use the help, ya know what I mean? REAL ads, not so awesome lately. GET TO IT!
Is GLOBE getting into the skateboard manufacturing biz? What seems a likely step at this critical juncture in time, where larger companies are looking to increase market share as well as hold on to what they’ve got, may in fact come to pass, and perhaps… maybe not. I guess we shall see. This was just one of the complete designs I’ve submitted to them.
I sometimes consider the decision I made nearly two years ago to leave the ad agency biz and dize into the world of freelance and action sports. Every once in a while I get a reminder as to why I’m so much happier doing what I’m doing now than when I was desiging for companies I feel nothing for. A recent dip back into the corporate realm sent just such a reminder my way.
Above you’ll notice a couple of the many logo marks I developed for a law (defense) firm. This was a design-by-committee project, so the client took the designs I came up with and forwarded them on to a group that decides which, if any of the logos they like.
We did some back and forth and after a couple of rounds and my unwillingness to pursue them, they didn’t feel strongly enough about any of the designs to go ahead and replace their current logo.
Client's Current Logo
Though, it can be frustrating not to see a design project through to fruition, I got the chance to work on a new style of lettering which I turned out to like the results of,
The Process of Custom Lettering
And I was reminded why I always require a 50% up front deposit, and why I love working for the surf and skate industry!
Got these tees done up by JOL in Hermosa Beach. They came out legit. I sent a buttload of them over to the troops who’ve finished their second tour in Iraq and are currently chilling in Germany. You think it’s cold here in the states during X-mas!? They should have showed up there right on or around good ‘ol St. Nick’s day.
A little more on the crew I did these shirts up for in the future, along with a little surprise*.
Just set up a music playlist with LAST.FM – If you wanna hear what I’m listening to, hit this link. No surprise… it’s pretty much all metal!
All derivations of the name Track 6 were already in use, so don’t be mislead by the random pseudo-name.
