QUARTERSNACKS

Quartersnacks product graphics from roughly 2015 – current day.  Art direction by Kosta.

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These airbrushes were some of my favorite QS projects to work on.  This ‘Summer Airbrush’ was the first in the series – Kosta wanted to do something referencing the classic Spike Jonze skit from Girl Skateboards’ video Mouse, in which Rick Howard hits his head opening the trunk of his car and finds himself skating through the woods.

 This was followed by the Winter Airbrush shirt, depicting a grizzly campsite scene.

I sprayed this next one up for the annual Readers’ Poll and shot a photo in the eternal snowbank outside the local Ice Arena.

This was for Jenna Perry Hair Salon in Soho  .. an unusual collab that never really came to fruition, although both of these designs were sampled up on tees and hoodies and given out to JPH employees.

I met Kosta (the brain behind QS) skating in NYC when I briefly lived there in 2009-2010.  Over the years we’ve worked on lots of fun oddball projects together, in a back + forth brainstorm / sketch / iteration design approach.  They always come out reminding me of 90s skate graphics: slightly random, inside-joke heavy, wearable and collectible.

This was a direct reference to the Planet Earth logo:

Love it when sketches more or less directly translate to finished designs.  This is a fried Spring Break in Astoria concept; the QS logo is a flip on the ConEd lockup.

These were Instagram ads for the QS x Carhartt WIP capsule (I did not have a hand in the actual product here, just these promo flyers)

This one is special as it was a collab with Dana Ericson, one of my favorite skaters and fellow AQ After 5-era Boston downtown lurker.  I laid out the honey label and honey bottle snackman in illustrator, then Dana spun it around in a 3D render, which we used for the final back graphic.

 

 

 

 

Probably my most infamous QS design ever .. this one actually got bootlegged by American Eagle, who flipped it into something that said ‘Waiting For The Weekend’ with basically the same exact artwork.  No legal action was taken by Quartersnacks; bootlegging is just part of the skate graphic game.

 

This was the very first Quartersnacks tee I ever did.  I wanna say it was also one of the first QS t-shirts ever, period ?!

Always referencing Young Jeezy.  The snackman himself (designed by Kosta) is the Jeezy snowman seen here on the CD.

This one’s based on Skateboarder Magazine’s OG masthead design:

Here’s a reference for the finance bros ..

A flip on the 34th Street cleanup crew uniform.

This is actually the first design I ever did for QS — I think it only ever came out as a hat and stickers:

Spent a lot of time skating flatground here ..

Some Euro sportswear-inspired looks.