Artist Feature: Scott Hansen

Well, I know this will ruffle a few feathers in the snowboard purist camps but today's artist feature is San Francisco native Scott Hansen, the man behind the Armada AR6 skis as well as the Forum Devun Walsh R.O.O.S.T. snowboard. So yes, we'll be including ski design, and why not when it's as good as this.

Scott is better known as ISO50 or ambient, electro genius Tycho. When touring as Tycho has held talks/tutorials going through his techniques for creating his largely Photoshop-based work. He's been working as a freelance designer in order to focus on his music and design, but has with collaborated with several agencies, including the software giant Adobe.

With a strong sense of type, coupled with his very own distinct and very intricate style, the AR6 skis are pretty sweet sticks (click the image for a closer look). Scott's designs were tweaked and finalised by Mackel Vaugn prior to production. Interestingly, they employ the same, split canvas approach we saw on the wakeboards just the other day, and they'd look almost as good on the wall as the mountain.

The Forum board is just as sweet (see below). It's a little more subtle, but with the same, distinctive ISO50 flair. You can win one of these too, just make a purchase at the ISO50 shop and you'll be entered. Move quick because you have until the 31st of January.


To learn more about Scott check out his blog here.
For some excellent music to ride to, check out Tycho on iTunes.