Andy Jenkins sits down with The Nine Club to discuss wanting to leave Wyoming at the age of 13, meeting a young Spike Jonze, working for Rocco at World doing graphics including Jason Lee’s first graphic “The Cat In The Hat”, how much graphic artists gets paid now vs then, his comic Wrench Pilot, working as the art director for the newly formed Girl Skateboards, finding Evan Hecox, leaving Girl Skateboards then returning after 7 years, #3DecadesOfGirl and much more!
Bobshirt teams up with Eric Swisher from Chromeball for this special interview with Andy Jenkins. Andy talks about being the art director at Girl Skateboards, creating the first Girl series in 1993, getting his first job from a drawing contest, doing early skateboard graphics for bLind, World and 101, drawing crackpipes, Chocolate graphics, 3 decades of Girl skateboards and much more.
“While joining the Girl team in 1993 as an amateur, Tony missed out on the original round of what’s become known as the 93 Til graphics. When Fergs pro model was retired in 2004, Girl hadn’t yet adopted the tradition of revisiting the 93 Til’s each season. We found it extra special to give Tone the 93 Til board he almost missed.
A reissue for Tony Ferguson has long been in the works. With so many classic graphics, picking a favorite was more than half the holdup. When we finally zeroed in on the 1996, Art In America board by Andy Jenkins, we knew it was the one.”
Find the capsule at your local shop or at Crailstore.com.
On This Day in Crailtap History (Sept. 26, 2004), along for the ride of Girl Skateboards‘ “What Tour” of Australia were Art Dump members Andy Jenkins, Andy Mueller, Tony Larson, & Jeremy Carnahan. The boys had a demo of their own known as “What Logo”, showcasing hand-printed wooden dolls they had designed as well as dolls by Evan Hecox, Lori Damiano, Eric Anthony, and Rob Abeyta Jr.
Lakai is proud to partner with Girl Skateboards Art Director Andy Jenkins for our premiere Fall 2015 Echelon Collection.
The Andy Jenkins pack consists of 3 styles; the MJ in Dark Shadow Canvas, Camby in Port Canvas, and the Camby Mid in Black Canvas. Each of the silhouettes has his custom graphic and signature branding on the sock liner. The entire collection, as well as a corresponding Girl and Chocolate board series, can be found at Echelon dealers worldwide.
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Move over Hersh, Thrasher lets our Senior Designer, Andy Jenkins, pick his least favorite graphics of all time. Funny thing is that they seem like classics to me…well, except that Gator one.
Our guy, and Girl’s longest standing employee, Andy Jenkins talks Tom Waits and BMX over at Green Label.
