During the summer Scott and Franklin’s Paine, a non-profit organization, put on a fundraiser to build a skatepark in West Philadelphia. Videographer, Erik Durkin, put together a great video for the event. Check it out below and for more information about the skatepark visit http://www.franklinspaine.com.
McCreesh Skatepark Project from Eric Durkin on Vimeo.
The best part of being in the creative field is, simply, creating things. A good example is the Alter Street Arts and Cultural Society aka the warehouse. Over some drinks, Scott, Matt Yula, and Brannon John decided to look for a warehouse and build a skatepark in it for them and their friends. A year later, it happened and not only did they make it, it’s awesome. They turned a 3,000 square ft. meat locker into a wall to wall skateramp. I’m fortunate to have a key to the place and sometimes when I have people visiting from out of town who don’t skateboard and show them how impressive it is. Well, the skateboard world has caught on to and skateboard teams from all over the nation travel to skate it.
Skatedaily.com just recently did a great article on it. Amazing photos from Philadelphia’s and good friend of the studio, Bryan Lathrop. If you’re ever in town and you know someone who might have a key to the place, you should come check it out. Maybe it’ll inspire you to create something.
Scott and I have been busy working on a bunch of different stuff for all different clients these days. So busy we haven’t been able to update the blog as much as we would like. We’d like to thank our new clients illumaguard, PA Preferred, Cafe Zezze, and Shift Design for helping us stay busy and continue to do the work that we love.
In the midst of being busy, we always find some time to have a little fun. Last week, Scott and I took a trip to the exclusive House of Van in Willimasburg, Brooklyn where we got to skate their new facility. You can check out pictures and some video of Scott skating the bowl here and here.
Also, came across this interesting article on the 99% blog about the “Exposure Economy”.
Scott and I had the chance to work with Coppertone for some in-store signage. The challenge was to take Coppertone’s existing branding and create something to appeal to a surf/skate culture between the ages of 16-30. This is our twist.
The fundraiser was extremely successful. Congratulations to Scott and Franklin’s Paine for throwing a successful event. Details and photos of the event can be found at Haveboard.com.
On August 14th we’re having our first fundraising event for the McCreesh Skatepark Project. I’ve personally organized this first fundraising event to bring attention to the project and get the ball rolling with fundraising. I’m excited to announce that we have both 5boro and Totally coming out to skate. We’ll be building some ramps for the demo and the community organizers have given us permission to leave the ramps behind for the kids to skate. DJ Illumadel will be spinning reggae all day and Chuck Treece is gonna close out the day with a live performance from McRad! And all kinds of great food will be provided from the local community. I’ve been very involved in this project and this is a terrific opportunity to build a great public skatepark for this neighborhood. Please come out and show your support for what is sure to be an amazing day and the beginning of Philly’s next great skatepark. Thanks! – Scott
Thanks to Sole Technologies, they printed these vinyl flags with our design for the skateshop.
Really interesting article from PSFK about removing the clutter of web banners from the internet and focusing more on branded materials around the web. Personally, I believe in the effectiveness of branded material and culture creation versus random solicitation of products via web clutter (banners). Check out on PSFK
