SkatePal
Roll With The Punches
2017
Personal work

A publication that explores how skateboarding is becoming a tool for profound change in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

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I began volunteering with the skateboarding NGO SkatePal in 2015, and created this independent zine to raise funds for a proposed skatepark in Jayyous, a Palestinian village in the West Bank (5). The sales contributed nearly 10% of funding for the park construction, which featured in the Viceland series Post Radical, and for which I was part of the team of builders. 

The publication was stocked in a number of skateboard stores & magazine outlets across Europe, and I recieved orders from as far as New York, Moscow & Beirut.

You can reads interviews about the project with both i-D and STACK.


(4) Photo credit: Tom Biddulph


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)