Skateboard Deck for MARK Skateboards by Marc English Design

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CLIENT

MARK, for discriminating skaters and collectors, makes limited-edition skateboard decks, hand silk-screened in the USA, on the finest laminated North American maple. MARK decks are not designed for a target audience, except for the ones in our collective heads. Which means they are steeped in art, culture, literature, and film.

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BRIEF

The president of MARK, educator Mark Gobble, was deaf and a leader in the deaf community. For the 2nd deck in the series: 002^LOUD DEAF.

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APPROACH

We wanted to acknowledge the deaf community by referencing old-time “deaf-mute" fundraising cards and be “loud & proud."

PRODUCTION LESSONSWe’d never worked with a company that screens on curved woods. Or that, in spite of their specializing in skateboards, did not have templates.