About this Design

DGK’s brand and skateboard deck art is playful and heavily influenced by graffiti art and psychedelic design. The main commonalities I noticed between all deck designs is the ‘maximalist’ bold design style and use of bright highly saturated colours.

For this deck series, a bright and bold complimentary colour palette is used to fit with the existing brand’s decks while offering a new colour combination. The use of two different complimentary colours on each deck allows the decks to stand out individually but tie together as a series through intentional design elements. I pulled inspiration from the brand’s psychedelic designs through the use of a wavy sunburst, dripping elements, and a unique mushroom design for each deck. The cowboy frog element on the purple and yellow deck ties in the fun and playful identity of the brand’s designs. Finally, the logo is tied into the series with the addition of drips on both the top and bottom of the decks.