Skate Graphics
スケートデッキ・グラフィック / 1980s– / Style / Illustration Styles
Graphics evolved for the deck's underside — a tall canvas destined to be ground away. Phillips's Screaming Hand typifies the bold outlines and horror-laced exaggeration that built street heraldry.
Tall deck-bottom composition / Bold-outlined characters / Horror mixed with humor / Grace about being worn away
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Jim Phillips and Santa Cruz / Vernon Courtlandt Johnson / the connection to Shepard Fairey