Great design redressing scuzzy skate aesthetics for new totally rad boardsports mag

Date
2 September 2015

When you think of “boardsports” and design, it’s easy to jadedly slip into assumptions about cheesy ocean scenery or scuzzy skate culture graphics. A new Munich-born magazine looks to help change that though, showing that even people who might say “cowabunga” can have as keen an eye for great graphics as anyone. A Bigger Park was set up by Christian Hundertmark, creative director of the C100 agency, which also works with clients including Vans, Nudie Jeans and Red Bull. The mag, however, was founded purely as a labour of love, and a love of boardsport culture, art and design. Its layout is considered and playful, doing away with rough edges in favour of beautiful imagery and a simple turquoise and white colour palette.

A Bigger Park is not without its politics though, as the mag’s site explains. “We do not believe in featuring a combination of different lifestyles, but a lifestyle based on worshipping difference,” it reads. “We all live in a bigger park which we are cultivating as a community of designers, surfers, artists…citizens and outlaws, mountain people praising the sea and old spirits young at heart.” Well that’s us told. RIGHTEOUS!

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Christian Hundertmark: A Bigger Park
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Christian Hundertmark: A Bigger Park
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Christian Hundertmark: A Bigger Park
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Christian Hundertmark: A Bigger Park

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Emily Gosling

Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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