Powell Peralta Deck Graphics
パウエル・ペラルタのデッキ図像 / 1980s / Style / Illustration Styles
Imagery that fills the whole underside of a deck with a single emblem. Bones, skulls and dragons in heavy outline, set on the board as a team's flag in full knowledge that grinding will wear them away.
At a glance
Visual cues
- One emblem filling the underside of the deck
- The figure held symmetrically at the center
- Heavy black outline over flat color
- A heraldry built from bones and skulls
Best used for
- Building an emblem that names who something belongs to and fills a tall surface
- Putting an image on an object that wears down in use, where the meaning has to outlast the wear
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- The name drawn by hand at the stroke weight of the art and built into the emblem
- Composition
- A symmetrical figure set on the tall center axis, one image filling the surface to its edges
- Material
- Flat color inside heavy black outline, printed in few screens, with knockouts of bare wood as part of the figure
- Caution
- Leaning into fine detail costs the emblem its reading the first time it grinds, so the more a board is ridden the less it names.
- Further study
- Jim Phillips and Santa Cruz / Vernon Courtlandt Johnson / the connection to Shepard Fairey
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- Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) (ローブロウ)Same Illustration Styles lineage.Compare Powell Peralta Deck Graphics and Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism)
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