Infectious Design A Skate Deck competition
The Infectious design community creates cool device skins, adhesive wall art, and car decals, using the talents of artists such as Dalek, Tara McPherson, Shag and Junko Mizuno, among many others. To celebrate their new status as the home for Skate Deck Design Community, Popdeck, they are currently holding a contest to design the first five decks to be added to the Infectious catalog. There’s no theme and first place prize wins a recession-friendly $1000. Sweet.
Tagged: Dalek, Infectious, Junko Mizuno, Popdeck, San Francisco, Shag, skateboards, Tara McPherson
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Andrew Lin said | 12 June, 2009
I would totally skate the Big Brawl one. And the bottom green sneaker one too…