Design Your Ride Submissions

Thanks for keep your eyes peeled. Not only is there one, but six submitted designs. These designs were submitted to the Design Your Ride contest on wakesites.com. The contest deadline is nearly up so if you have a design to submit yourself hurry and do so. Till then, hope you enjoy these and the bit of commentary for each.



"Dew Spirals," "Dew Stripes," & "Dew Splatters":

A series of three designs using water drops, or bubbles, or "dew-drops" in this case to create a unique design that magnifies and warps the underlying art.



"A-MAZE-ING":

There has always been a reserved amount of admiration for mazes. lots of creativity goes into mazes, both to please the artistic mind as well as the part of the mind that likes to solve puzzles. both sides of the board have a maze. Both mazes are solvable (the one on the back providing any challenge, click the picture to increase its size to solve it yourself.) and both lead to an 'aMAZEing' destination (pun intended).

"Flexible Truth":

Quite simply, this design is a dedication to flex technology in wakeboards. A collage of over 25 quotes and other references to the words, "flexible," "reflex," and "slingshot" cover the top and bottom of the board (click the picture to see closer). Scans of common, everyday materials, such as note paper, torn cardboard, pushpins, tape, and much more were used to create a different, messy but identifiable rhythm of creativity.

"Slingshot Dragon":

The name of this design is the translation of the Chinese characters used. The two characters on the top (read top to bottom) are pronounced "Dang Gong," meaning "Slingshot." Appropriately so, a Chinese style dragon is wrapped around the character for "Dragon," pronounced "Long." The bottom graphic was originally hand drawn and then scanned into the computer and modified a bit. The entire design is reminiscent of the artists respect for Chinese; language, people, and heritage.