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.

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

Powell Peralta Deck Graphics — Polar Skate Co deck graphics — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Powell Peralta Deck Graphics — Girl Skateboards, Mike Carroll deck — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Powell Peralta Deck Graphics — Skateboards collected by Perseo Medrano (Museo del Objeto del Objeto, MODO), 2011 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0
Polar Skate Co deck graphics — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 ／ Girl Skateboards, Mike Carroll deck — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 ／ Skateboards collected by Perseo Medrano (Museo del Objeto del Objeto, MODO), 2011 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

Dictionary entry

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
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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