Some skateboarding obsessions never really leave your brain.
This skate art poster revisits a childhood memory I’ve carried for years. While spreading butter on toast during breakfast, I would accidentally shape the butter into little skateable transitions with the knife. Tiny halfpipes sitting on the table.
At some point, skateboarding stops being just physical and becomes a way of reading the world. Curbs become ledges. Shadows become gaps. Random architecture turns into possible lines. Even ordinary objects start carrying that same visual potential. I think many skaters develop this strange mental filter without even noticing it. This concept was created before AI, simply as a way to revisit and enjoy one of those small skateboarding memories that stay with you forever. It still makes me laugh. I honestly think many skaters share the same obsession.
Do you?
Hmmm… I honestly don’t know what came first: the need to use that cheesy brown Bookman Swash typography, or the need to visually capture this memory. It just felt so ordinary, domestic and completely out of place for a skateboarding poster.
Visually, the piece was also one of the easiest ways I had at that moment to recreate an everyday domestic scene. The poster takes inspiration from vintage American breakfast advertising, old packaging illustration and diner aesthetics. I liked the contrast between the warm nostalgic atmosphere and the internal obsession of constantly imagining skateable terrain everywhere around you.
The oversized typography and warm color palette intentionally push the poster closer to an old commercial ad than a traditional skate graphic. At first glance, it almost feels harmless and familiar. Then you notice the butter. That tension felt interesting to me.
Would you hang it on your wall?
