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Como fazer um video de como fazer shapes de skate

Henrique Monnerat — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:35:05 +0000

….se é que você me entendem. Foda esse video do processo de fabricação dos shapes de Skateboard Rekiem.

Skateboard Design Challenge: Laser-Cut Griptape Designs

Henrique Monnerat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:36:30 +0000

My favorite design blog Core77 just put up their new 1-HOUR Design Challenge: Design a laser-cut grip tape inlay for a Longboard. They teamed up with “Laser Cutting for the masses” company Ponoko and Bustin Boards and will be receiving entries until January 28. The best 3 designs will be made and sent to their respective creators. Too bad the Letsevo skateboards aren’t ready yet, this is totally something we would support! Anyway, great initiative! On your marks! go!

Letsevo ECOSK8 Artist Decks

Henrique Monnerat — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:43:56 +0000

Letsevo is addicted to Art, and the place where art meets product design is where the Ecosk8 Artist Series wants to be. It is with great pleasure that I review here the first collaborations of Artists for what Letsevo would love to have as a future series of skateboard decks. Letsevo wants to thank and congratulate all Artists for taking the time to participate and for there amazing designs! Want to know more about the these Artists, click on.

Click here to go to the gallery site

Aos artistas

Henrique Monnerat — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:59:48 +0000

Numa iniciativa de envolver artistas e de reunir desenhos para futuras artes dos shapes do projeto ecosk8 estou colocando disponível aqui no site um arquivo .PSD (photoshop) para servir de base para futuros gráficos dos decks ecosk8.

Se vc é um artista e quer participar:Leia mais

Novo Shape em Desenvolvimento

Henrique Monnerat — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:19:37 +0000

Letsevo and Fibra Design Sustentável at Volvo Sportsdesign Award

Henrique Monnerat — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:54:59 +0000

It took a while to believe but we were there! Our Ecosk8 project was nominated for the board category of this years Volvo Sportsdesign Award. Among names like Salomon Snowboards, Arbor Snowboards and amazing projects like the Ecomoana Surfboard, our “Folha Seca” skateboard was the only chosen product from the southern hemisphere.

I had the chance, together with Pedro Themoteo and Bruno Temer from Fibra Design Sustentável
to go to this years Design Forum at ISPO to represent our project. Our open development project was chosen to participate in the “Elevator Pitch” where some of the best projects had 90 seconds to tell what they were about. Bruno represented our team and did an amazing job, finishing our message right on the last second bring a wild applause from the crowd.

Checkout some of the Pictures of the Event!!

At the end, Salomon Snowboards was awarded with the final prize with their “Sickstick” Bamboo Board. We got to know David Farcot and Henri Rançon from Salomon and were amazed by David Farcot’s words of support to our project while he spoke on stage. That was awesome! congratulations David and Henri.

Another great thing about the award is that it happens in the same time as the Volvo Design Forum – with this years main theme – Eco Design. Among the several lectures the forum organizes workshops that are really interesting to take part. I got the chance to participate on the “Build a chariot from Bamboo” workshop, organized by Nick Lobnitz and Bob Giddens from Carry Freedom. They have a sweet open-source project on bicycle racks and share their knowledge with everyone planning to build a bike rack.

More news about the ecosk8 project can be seen in almost real time at ecosk8’s open development website.

The Volvo Sportsdesign Award website

World’s Biggest Skateboard

Henrique Monnerat — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:27:28 +0000

link to this video

There is something evo about record breakers and because of that I have put up this list of videos from the world’s biggest skateboards. If you wanna help built the next biggest board, lets chat, but there will be no open source in here, it’s going to be top secret for the sake of competiton.

Have fun watching them!

Links to videos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

EVO New School Skateboard

Henrique Monnerat — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:21 +0000

Its been a long time since I started working on this but like y’all know, everything has its time to come to life. I have been working hard the last weeks to finish EVO’s newest skateboard.

The deck is 83cm long and is a mix of an old school skateboard and a Longboard. It’s aimed for riding with ease around town but still allow some tricks here and there. It was build using 7 layers of 1,5 mm Canadian Ahorn Plywood pressed together at exactly 27,69 Tons/cm² using epoxy resin.

Its griptape design was inspired by the leaf’s Gestalt. After drawing the desired shape and printing it out, a lot of time was invested to cut and apply the separate peaces of the grip on the deck. I image how difficult it might be to produce this in large scale but until I find a engineer to come up with better solution I will be cutting and pasting the old school way.

Special thanks should be given to Teimaz from Azita Skateshop who kindly lent me wheels,trucks,bearings for the photos.

EVO Skateboard Project: Gluing Process

Henrique Monnerat — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:26:44 +0000

For those who don´t know yet how the curvature in a skateboard is achieved here is a brief example how a board comes to its shape.

Basically a skateboard is made from an uneven (7,9,11) number of wood layers laid between two CNC molds (Forms) that hold the positive and the negative side of the board’s curvature. When laying the wood layers, it is important to pay attention to the direction of the woodfibers making sure the they are always 90° in relationship to the top and bottom layers, this ensures a great deal of stability. Between each wood layer comes a small amount of epoxy resin evenly distributed. After giving them 18 hours of pressure we have strong skateboard curvature ready to be cut.