Profile for skaw - For those that snowboard...

skaw aka Jake Nickell is a 31.76 year old boy, has been a member since November 12, 2000, has scored 12,306 submissions, giving an average score of 2.29, helping 311 designs get printed.

URL: http://www.jakenickell.com/
AIM: sskkaaww

Jan 22 '12 by skaw
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For those that snowboard...

Back in 2005, my good friend Joe Suta came in and painted the walls in the first Threadless office. Here's a photo from then:

Joe finishing up some stuff on the floor

Since then, Joe has probably painted more than 30,000 square feet of Threadless stuff... be it display art for our store windows, offices walls, furniture, outdoor murals, etc. He still paints for us regularly today. Well, a couple years ago he moved out to Colorado and got started with a couple other guys creating a snowboard company. I joined on as an investor/advisor (and website builder.) They spent a good 2 seasons developing the perfect snowboard.

Just last week we launched the site and you can buy the boards online. These boards are literally the best. Get one if you are in the market.

Threadless will probably do a design challenge with them for some of next season's boards :) ... Fun fact: A couple of the boards were designed by Cole Blotcky, ex-threadless employee and designer of Rabbit Valley. See if you can figure out which ones =-O

Check it out: Nightmare Development (Facebook too)

ignzed on Jan 22 '12 at 9:13pm

YES! Thanks for the post. Have always thought Threadless designs would look good on snowboards. Truly makes me want a new one now.

monofunk on Jan 22 '12 at 9:36pm

another cool brand

xiv on Jan 22 '12 at 10:02pm

bookmarked.

jeffreyg on Jan 22 '12 at 10:50pm

the boards came out so sweet...

toopersent on Jan 23 '12 at 12:09am

I was expecting some $600+ boards, these are quite affordable and stylish. I need a new board for next year, too, as my jiblet has a base fracture.

dandingeroz on Jan 23 '12 at 12:23am

wow!

Andreas Mohacsy on Jan 23 '12 at 2:47am

not often enough, best fun to be had outside the ocean:)))

ISABOA on Jan 23 '12 at 12:41pm

did cole go to work there? I was wondering what happened to him

jeffreyg on Jan 23 '12 at 7:00pm

the upcoming design by cole looks great

i know what i want for christmas

skaw on Jan 23 '12 at 7:09pm

pretty amazing eh?

7 days later

stubby43 on Jan 31 '12 at 9:32am

So much love.

Bit of a long shot but could you guys make longboards? love the designs but it would be awesome to see them on a different type of board.

5 days later