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crank out handmade skateboards


'crank out' handmade skate board featuring a graphic composed of the penrose triangle

'crank out' skateboards are designed by dante spagnuolo, santolo guarracino and annalisa avogadri from italy.
the skateboards act both as sculptural objects or to be ridden around. each board is unique and numbered.
the geometric graphic influences of the boards pull from drawings by M.C. escher, the penrose triangle and gestalt illusions,
creating, besides the drawing, a composition of colors using different wood essences.


hexagons of different dimensions shaped out from the background form a dotted image that when seen from the right distance, reveals a skull



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detail and full view from afar of the skull graphic


board details




on this board the graphic is made using wenge, maple, cherry and birch. the graphic is a composition of the penrose triangle arranged in a pattern which highlights the various woods used



graphic details of the penrose triangle composition




the cracked lines from the graphic forms a pattern that gives the board an illusory tridimesionality







the graphics on this board is made using cherry and maple, both essences fuse together forming a haunted fores


the making of the boards



application of the graphics




layering of the veneer to build up the boards





download the 'crank out' skatboards catalogue here



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Dante Camillo Spagnulo
06.13.11  
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