After many many years of collecting skateboard decks, I finally got around to getting them up on the wall. This was not an easy task… even with single-deck floating displays from Sk8tology. The problem hanging this many decks is that they all variate in size (width, specifically).
To make things easier, I took a wall measurement and created a document in Illustrator to scale. I laid out all the decks how I wanted them arranged, and measured them individually – creating a corresponding rectangle in Illustrator (also to scale). Once this was all done, I distributed spacing horizontally using the align palette. This gave me a precise figure to which I used a micrometer to translate spacing between decks as I hung them. Why go through all that trouble? Feng shui is important – especially when I spend over 90% of the time in my office. Besides, a peril of being a designer is such that if they weren’t perfectly spaced, it would drive me nuts. I still have about 12-15 more decks to hang on the opposing wall… so stay tuned for more!
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i wanna do this soooooooooo bad!.. but i'd be such a poser, I haven't boarded once in my life.
Here's my buddies board website, they've made some pretty nice designs http://www.knockonwoodskateboards.com/logblog/o…
Super sick Andy! Mannnn you need to teach me how to space/align all the red AE86 diecasts I have!!! hahaha
I noticed that we have the same glass tables… and I have some big ikea bookshelves for my magazines, but I guess I have way more magazines than my bookshelves allow!
I should send you some pix of the Cipher Garage office and see if you have some ideas, haha