Become a Snowboard Designer
Many artists dream of designing snowboards. Snowboard design is a competitive, but entering design contests or joining a snowboard design team are great ways to start.
Design for the Slopes: How to Become a Snowboard Designer
Imaging seeing your design on a snowboard that’s pulling crazy flips in the half pipe or rocking the moguls in the terrain park. Designing snowboards is one of the most specific, competitive fields of art, but it’s also one of the coolest. So how can you “clip in” to the world of snowboard designers? Here are a few ideas:
Snowboard Design Contests
Some snowboard companies have design contests– these contests are a good way to get practice designing boards, and to get free gear and lift tickets if you win. Companies offering contests include:
Prior Snowboards
Salomon Snowboards
Monson Snowboards, and many more.
Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop has a new snowboard design program that allows you to create graphics on a snowboard-size template. You can even see where the bindings will cover the design.
School
Some art schools and other colleges have snowboard design teams or clubs. For example, at the University of Toronto the snowboard design team does everything from designing and fabricating the boards to marketing and selling them. Cool.
Sources:
Adobe Photoshop
Monson Snowboards
Prior Snowboards
Salomon Snowboards
University of Toronto- Snowboard Design Team
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I have always loved the thought of snowboarding but was never given the chance as a child to actually experience it or get the chance to grow up in the scene.. earlier this year was the first time i have ever been to the slopes i was extremely stoked and picked it up quick.. Now that i sit and think about how i would like to further my education and career i really am thinking about what i would love to do. what dream to make reality next! and this is where i have landed. Snowboard design. i would be willing to take any opportunity to get there, join any design teams in the business with any part of the works, boots, bindings, boards, graphics, what have you.. all i need to know is what can i do to get there? i currently have an associates in CAD and either am looking to go back for graphic design or whatever else i need to take to aquire the knowledge. i do not only want to design the graphics but more along the lines of the physics and mechanics behind it. if anyone out there can help. please send me any information you can!
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