SkatePal
Roll With The Punches
2017
Personal work
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.
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, Nefarious Skate Crew, B’Tselem, Sam Dearden, Abdullah M., Minna Holm Khakar, Rhamsi Alkadi, Eqab Jawabreh
Printing ︎︎︎ Mixam
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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, Nefarious Skate Crew, B’Tselem, Sam Dearden, Abdullah M., Minna Holm Khakar, Rhamsi Alkadi, Eqab Jawabreh
Printing ︎︎︎ Mixam