| RIVINGTON LUDLOW skateboards is a culmination of a lifelong passion for art, skateboarding, New York City and Natural History, all mixed together to create an amalgam of my life and passions, passions my 4-year-old son Varg Ragnar has grown up around. |
| In 1989, as a 14-year-old fan of music, art and skateboarding, I was mesmerized by the album cover for Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. It became my all-time favourite album cover, and with NYC being my favourite city, and one of my biggest sources of inspiration, years later and after dozens of visits I realized that the intersection of RIVINGTON street and LUDLOW street on the Lower East Side was the location for the original album cover. |
| Both fish graphics are studies from the Natural History museums in Vienna and Paris. Both are done in a mixed media of ink and spray paint. The B&W top logo is a ink sketch from my sketchbook and a reflection of my style and most-used medium, ink. The portrait graphics are ballpoint pen and spraypaint studies |
| RIVINGTON LUDLOW skateboards Are designed in Oslo at our small studio and pressed and printed in Berlin at Quarter Distribution. |
Canadian Maple, produsert i Tyskland hos Quarter Distribution, med stained bottom og top wood.
Graphics/art av Ole Skedsmo.
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"Decks are made from 7 layers of individually compression-molded Canadian maple. The wood is obtained from gentle and sustainable forestry around the Great Lakes in Canada and the USA. Both the special adhesive and the paintwork are particularly durable and at the same time environmentally friendly." QUARTER DISTRIBUTION |
