ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

BoardPusher Offers DIY Designer Skate Decks

Friday, December 5, 2008

A good many of the artists we write about on ToyCyte spent their formative years as punks, taggers and skaters--and now look at the them. True, many of them are still punks, taggers and skaters--but they make more money and get more respect. Maybe you want to get some respect? Maybe you've been looking at the decks we've been profiling by Dalek, Shepard Fairey and Alex Pardee, and you're thinking, I should be doing that. Enter BoardPusher--the premier website for designing and purchasing custom skate decks.

Hook-Ups Clockwork Orange Shirt and Skatedeck

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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With the recent spate of A Clockwork Orange-inspired figures (Ludwig Van busts, Michael Lau’s SK3…), I thought you might want some gear to go with it. Check out this Orange skatedeck and t-shirt from the anime-centric skate company Hook-ups. Pretty sweet graphics. JapanLA’s got ‘em both in stock right now. The shirt is $19.50 here. Related [...]

The Grind Underground Artists Skatedeck Auction

Monday, October 6, 2008

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You can view all the decks here. A few of the ToyCyte familiars and favorites who are contributing decks include: Amy Sol, D*Face, Mear One, Chris Ryniak, Tara McPherson, Buff Monster, N8 Van Dyke, Morning Breath, Paper Monster, David Flores, Indie/Cope2 and Mike Hyp.

Sket One Ripple x Bigboy Custom and Contest

Monday, October 6, 2008

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Sket One sends us this slice of street art x Americana as a preview of what’s to come at his artist-in-residence gig later this month at the ATP Festival. This is one of six customs that will be accompanied by matching canvases. During the events (October 30-31st in London and November 1st in Birmingham), Sket [...]

New Anatomy From MOIST

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

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Last week, Jason Freeny sent me a pic of his latest print, Medicine Man, and as I stared at it, I couldn’t help imagining what the main capsule design would look like on a skatedeck. The 13×17 signed and embossed print is available through his Moist Productions Website here for $59. (I’ve got his [...]

Shepard Fairey OBEY x ARTSPROJEKT

Friday, August 29, 2008

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Shepard Fairey has 8 new deck designs for ARTSPROJEKT, adding to the badass boards by Dalek and Alex Pardee I posted yesterday. OBEY is just one of many micro-brands participating in ARTSPROJEKS. A few of the others are: Crooks and Castles, Hellz Bellz and Blood is the New Black. “Skateboard graphics were one of the [...]

Alex Pardee Skatedecks

Thursday, August 28, 2008

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Alex Pardee, who just released his Sore Throat skateboard through Upper Playground, has 8 new deck designs for ARTSPROJEKT, including: Toxic Lazyface, Geek Love and Escape Convic(tion). Alex said that he was at first hesitant to consider a print-on-demand project, but “when Andy [Howell] and I met up I actually got to see first-hand this [...]

Dalek ARTSPROJEKT Skatedecks

Thursday, August 28, 2008

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Dalek has 9 new deck designs for ARTSPROJEKT: every single one of which has his signature Space Monkeys. Says Dalek: “The Space Monkeys are human representations for me. They are self-portraits in a lot of ways, and also portraits of humanity. They are floating in nothingness. I didn’t want it to be a cartoon [...]