The kids those days.
Dustin had been riding for Stereo and Jim had been riding for Zero before Baker became an actual entity with products beyond a bootleg VHS tape of 100% raw street skateboarding. They both turned pro in 2001. Both are also still riding for the same company, although Greco is on sister brand, Deathwish. I picked this one because I like how simple, yet bold, the layout was.
Deathwish is making stickers of that first tape now:
Thrasher - May 2001 Volume 21 Number 5
3 comments:
The skating isn't in doubt but the Baker ads never were my thing...compare this to the Pappalardo one 2 post previous. The layout, the 3P detail, the picture all work together.
Fair point. A lot of Baker ads were just a lifestyle photo (no skating) and just Impact font. The ad featured here can be laid out in 2 minutes in Quark Xpress -- (my favorite layout program). If this is from the beginning days of Baker, I think J. Strickland would have been doing the ads.
Yes, this would have been from the early days of Baker. Most likely done in Quark since I don't think InDesign was a thing yet.
The Pops ad is a great bit of design.
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