SANTA CRUZ "The Skateboard Art of Jim Phillips" Book

Santa Cruz
"The Skateboard Art of Jim Phillips"

Paperback Book

208 Colour Pages

Dimensions:

Height 305mm,  Width 229mm

Publication Year : 2007

Publisher : Schiffer Publishing LTD


This book has it all for the ld skool skateboard fan.  Hundreds of colour photgraphs of some of the most iconic skateboard decks, stickers, wheels, t-shirts and ads of the 1980s.  Jim Phillips art was 80s skateboarding!

This retropspective on Jim's skateboard art bombards the reader wtih colourful skateboard decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding from the urethane revolution up to the present. You are invited for a ride, an inside view of Phillips Studios, to observe the wacky world of his crazed studio artists, and examine their graphic assignments.  The story traces the roots of skateboarding with more than a half-century of Phillips' involvement.  It provides insight into the creative evolution of the sport and the worldwide interest and influence that has occurred from this California artist