Snowboard Review received an email from our friends at Salomon about a snowboard graphic design competition run at the Metro Ski & Snowboard Show at Kensignton Olympia, late last year. They’re pretty proud of the winning designs, and so they should be. We love them too…
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Continue reading Salomon find design talent of the future
There’s no doubt that having decent graphics on a Snowboard is always a significant selling point; I don’t care how product driven you think you are, we all know that a pants board design will almost always put you off buying it! Every year board manufacturers change the graphics on their boards just like a football team changes its strip and every year we browse through the brand catalogues and websites looking for the slickest graphics, no doubt contemplating forgoing the right board length for the colour scheme that will match our jacket.
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Continue reading Endeavor back in-touch with their Roots!
SB-R bumped into Nick Atkins from Grenade UK at Slide in Manchester last month. Nick was super excited about showing us some of Grenades offerings for 2009/10. Yeah…yeah…I know, we’re a snowboard review site, and strictly speaking apparel and gloves do not classify as snowboards. Tough, I run this joint and I like Grenades new gear, so will you…
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Continue reading Grenade Apparel and Glove Preview for 2009/10
Ride’s freestyle range has two new faces in 2010 to join the now legendary Kink and DH, both classic boards that have been dominating parks and hand rail sessions the world over for the last 5 years. Say hello to the Machete & DH2.
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Continue reading Ride freestyle offering beefed-up for 2010
Option? Oh yes…Option have really pushed the limits of visual sanity for the coming season. Bananas and Pickles were so last season!
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Continue reading Wackiest Graphics Award of 2010 goes to…