Adam Weiss / Landscape Studio for Burton
Some great design work for the current line up of Burton Snowboard packaging conceptualized and designed by Adam Weiss of Landscape Studio, with Illustrations done by Travis Millard. The packaging redesign encompassed Burton’s entire product offering: boot/binding boxes, board labels, outerwear hangtags and accessory boxes. The aesthetic was later carried over into all communications for the brand.

Image source: Landscape Studio

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“Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright”
As with every season, Burton doesn’t fail to sprinkle exciting collaborations among its already impressive array of shreds. We’ve seen official collaborations with the Warhol estate, Futura, Ducati, and most recently for 2011, legendary singer and cultural icon Bob Marley. The Marley Whammy board was made possible with a blessing from the Marley Estate and it should give you some good vibes and easy feelings on the mountain for sure. Available at Burton Flagship stores next season.

Image source: Rad Collector

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Get your design on!
Forsnowboarding and Grafik Armor are proud to announce their first collaborative project together: Snowboard Graphic Design Contest. Beginning February 15th, 2010, we invite all snowboarders and designers to create their best original snowboard topsheet graphics using our supplied templates and submit them to our official gallery to be judged by a panel of artists, designers and industry professionals. Guest judge for this competition is none other than Mike Orduña AKA Fatoe.

Grand prize is a custom one-of-a-kind Grafik Armor Snowboard Decal Wrap with the winners graphic. Second place gets a Grafik Armor Snowboard Decal of their choice from Grafik Armors current line-up.

More information on our contest page.

Image source: Forsnowboarding

Beastin’
For its 20th anniversary this year, Timorous Beasties, a design studio from Glasgow Scotland, has collaborated with Nike ACG to create a capsule collection of jackets and soft-goods featuring their signature style of visual imagery in a limited run.

For this collection, Timorous Beasties have merged traditional 19th century motifs with designs of the day to create an interesting pattern that compliments itself well. This graphic has been applied to a Nike ACG TB Vertical Shell BK Jacket, in both black and blue colorways, and feature fully taped seams and a wind and waterproof lightweight shell that utilizes the ACG Storm-Fit technology.

Image source: Freshness Mag

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Now Available Online
King Snow, the snowboard magazine from the makers of King Shit, can now be found online for those who are not fortunate enough to live in Canada where this print magazine could be picked up in person. It’s the same deal only digital, read the latest issue here.

Image source: King Snow

Olympic Series
With the 2010 Winter Olympic Games only a week away, there’s still time to pick up some gear to show your support for your country while they’re competing. Oakleyis making it easy for you to put together some support with their custom Crowbar goggles, complete with country flags of your choice on the goggle straps. Get your support on at Oakley.com.

Image source: South of the North

Get Laced
In other collaboration, get-together, and teaming-up news from the SIA, we see an interesting one that makes a whole lotta sense, coming straight from the Burton booth this year. Burton makes great boots. Starks Laces makes great laces. For 2011, they got together to collaborate on a special model of the Burton Hail boot, featuring Starks laces. The boot takes cues from hunting with it’s real-tree camouflage, quilted panels and safety orange accents. Look for this model next season!

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Get your fade on
With Spring around the corner it’s time to get stocked up and ready for the warmer weather. Oakley will be releasing five new models of the Oakley Frogskins with a new “fade” aspect to the. The first to be released is a rootbeer-to-cyan colorway with Blue Iridium® lenses. Keep your eyes out for these soon.

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New Kicks
With SIA this past weekend, there was an opportunity to see much of what is coming down the pipes gear-wise for next year’s riding season. This current season saw the introduction of this technical boot from Nike Snowboarding, released with an ACG inspired colorway as a throwback from the archives of Nike. What we see coming in 2011 for the Zoom Air Kaiju is no different, as Nike likes to use their resources to add to the aesthetics of these boots. This time around there is an obvious poke at the tech challenge tennis sneakers from the Agassi days, as well as one that touches more on the color palette made famous by late 80’s Jordans. For snowboarders that are also sneaker heads, and for those with taste, next season is looking good to pick up a pair of Kaijus.

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Live Series Boards & Bindings
We gave you a first look at Endeavor Snowboard Design’s 2011 lineup the other day, now we have a better look at the Live Series, done up by Bristol artist Mr. Jago. The Live Series has always been a show piece for Endeavor. In keeping with this style, they chose to use the Live as Mr. Jago’s canvas for 2011. Having worked with such brands as Addict and Rossignol, and having exhibited his work around the world, it’s clear that his collaboration with Endeavor is a great match. Going to his studio in Bristol, Endeavor selected nine pieces of work from Mr. Jago’s portfolio and photographed them to be used as the graphics for this series of boards and also as the inaugural graphics for the forthcoming Live Series binding.

Image source: Endeavor Snowboard Design

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