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Reknown photographer Jeremy Cowart did a video reveal of his new print portfolio. The cool thing is we created his new hand-drawn logo which is debossed into the cover.

It’s always cool to see your work show up in print and in a fashion magazine is even sweeter.

Check out this trailer for The River, a cool novel by writer and musician Michael Neale that’s been in development for the better part of this year.

We’re happy to announce that in the last few weeks Burton released their Winter 2012 tees, some of which feature our art on the Women’s, Men’s, and boys lines. Check out the new stuff and get yours today.

In this episode from Off Book from PBS Arts designers Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jeones, Paula Scher, Eddie Opara and more discuss Typefaces, messaging, building identies and more.

Here’s artist D*Face and his crew inventing a sweet way to paint a freshly painted pool using skateboards and spray paint.

On June 8, 2011, I had the honor of speaking at Full Sail University as part of their DLXS series. It was a really fun night speaking to a packed house of students and staff about how to Make the Jump into art and design as a career.

Some new work for Jetty’s Spring/Summer 2011 line is hot off the press and available now. Look for Anchored, Hooked and Woodblock on Jettylife.com and in surf shops throughout the East Coast.

The new Brushed T for Burton is now available for Summer 2011. Get yours in one of 3 colorways, true black, green and red.

Our friend, Anna Bond, of Rifle Paper Co. has finally made her dream of opening a brick and mortar shop a reality. We were lucky enough to be invited to her Grand Opening Party. Enjoy the pics and be sure to visit Rifle if you’re ever in Winter Park, FL.

We were blown away by the amazing and intricate glass signs David A Smith is creating in the U.K. This is a must see.

This week we received a small package from VZ that included some of their sweet new shades and a wallet and tee we designed for them for their Spring 2011 line.

The crew at RipCurl and Timeslice Films (the people behind bullet time) have teamed up to make a sweet video for their new Mirage boardshorts. It’s the first time to our knowledge anyone’s used the bullet time to film surfing. Enjoy the behind the scenes video below as well.

We’ve been swamped here in the studio, but wanted to show you some images to recap our friend Brandon McLean’s solo show, Between You & Me, that opened at the Neon Forest Gallery on Sept 25. It was a great show featuring some cool installation work like a fishing tent that led across the space to [...]

A month ago we ran across this killer short film by the crew at Astray Films (Mickey Smith, Alastair Sopp, and Alan Wilson)

While out in some shops over the weekend, we spotted one of the graphics we drew up a while ago of a barracuda for the ocean-loving brand Salt Life.

On Saturday night, the 11th,  we headed down to Orlando’s newest gallery, Neon Forest to check out our friend Joshua M. Smith’s (Hydro74) Solo Show. Joshua is one of the hardest working illustrators I know who works well into the night most nights creating mind-blowing illustrations and type treatments for most of the well-known brands [...]

On Saturday we traveled down to the Surf Expo to see what’s new in he world of surf, skate, wake and see some of our clients and try to meet new ones. It seemed busier than the January show, which could mean good things for the industry. Most if the major brands were in attendance, but [...]

Friday the 3rd, we took in the The Giant Illustrators Picture & Process Show, at the UCF Emerging Arts Center downtown. The purpose of the show was to give viewers a glimpse into the illustrator’s process from concept to final product. Each artist had a different approach to showing their works-in-progress from very organized to [...]

Introducing the Splatterfest shoe, our last pair of one-of-a-kind custom shoes we created for Vans nationwide Custom Culture campaign. Here’s a look at how we created them and how we utilized our overspray and extra paint drips:

Here another pair of our one-of-a-kind custom shoes incorporating a painted version of our Kamikaze skull graphic. These were created for Vans nationwide Custom Culture campaign and will be living in a display in of their new stores around the country.

These Golden Cameraluv Vans were created exclusively for Vans nationwide Custom Culture campaign. They feature some of our favorite cameras from our ever-growing camera collection. More of our one-of-a-kind KENEDIK customs will be debuting soon.

Here’s a look at our West Coast Polaroid Vans on display in the Union Square Vans Store in San Francisco, California. They came out really nice and have a good placement at just above eye level in the store.

Here a look at our newest pair of custom painted shoes inspired by some of the local green and slimy wildlife we find here in Florida. It’s a lizard, it’s a gator, it’s that creature hiding at water’s edge. These were created exclusively for Vans nationwide Custom Culture campaign and will be living in one [...]