SkatePal
Roll With The Punches
2017
Personal work
Roll With The Punches
2017
Personal work
A zine that explores how skateboarding is becoming a tool for profound change in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
I began working with the skateboarding organisation SkatePal in 2015 – visiting Palestine, to transport equipment and teach skate classes. This zine was created to raise funds for a proposed skatepark in the Palestinian village Jayyous. After selling all 500 copies of the zine, the total sales contributed nearly 10% of the funding for the skatepark construction (see image 5) . I returned in 2017 as part of the team to help build the park, which featured in the Viceland series Post Radical.
The publication was stocked across a number of EU and US skate shops & independent bookstores, and I recieved orders from over 20 different countries, as far as Lebanon, Russia and Japan.
You can reads interviews about the project with both i-D and STACK.
Concept ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Design & Art Direction ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Contributions ︎︎︎ Requiem For A Screen
Bryggeriet Gynasium (Malmö)
Nefarious Skate Crew (UK)
B’Tselem (Israel)
Sam Dearden
Rhamsi Alkadi
Abdullah Milhem
Minna Holm Khakar
Eqab Jawabreh
Printing ︎︎︎ Mixam
Launch venue ︎︎︎ SkateCafe (NL)
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I began working with the skateboarding organisation SkatePal in 2015 – visiting Palestine, to transport equipment and teach skate classes. This zine was created to raise funds for a proposed skatepark in the Palestinian village Jayyous. After selling all 500 copies of the zine, the total sales contributed nearly 10% of the funding for the skatepark construction (see image 5) . I returned in 2017 as part of the team to help build the park, which featured in the Viceland series Post Radical.
The publication was stocked across a number of EU and US skate shops & independent bookstores, and I recieved orders from over 20 different countries, as far as Lebanon, Russia and Japan.
You can reads interviews about the project with both i-D and STACK.
Concept ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Design & Art Direction ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Contributions ︎︎︎ Requiem For A Screen
Bryggeriet Gynasium (Malmö)
Nefarious Skate Crew (UK)
B’Tselem (Israel)
Sam Dearden
Rhamsi Alkadi
Abdullah Milhem
Minna Holm Khakar
Eqab Jawabreh
Printing ︎︎︎ Mixam
Launch venue ︎︎︎ SkateCafe (NL)