Blackboard van press

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Blackboard Van Tour in Cooler Magazine

I was just having look through the Howies blog for some inspiration and came across a post that Scania had posted regarding an article in the urban sports and fashion magazine Cooler.

Click here to see more about the article. There is also a small film of the tour attached to the link.

Summer stunts 2007 revsited

David from howies phoned me last week to see how I was and ask whether I wanted to work on another stunt for them this summer. I of course said yes, so I was having a look at what I proposed last year. Click here to see more.

Blackboard van press packs

Just spotted on the Howies website that David and Claire have produced 50 Blackboard Van tour books for the press. Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on one.

Blackboard tour on the Howies website

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Howies catalogue.. and look whats featured

I was having a look at the Howies blog this evening and just downloaded their new catalogue. Some really nice stuff for winter and plenty of colourful layers to keep warm. The blackboard van was featured and David and Claire Hieatt have kindly credited me. Thanks guys.


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Howies Blackboard Van photos by Jamie Stoker

I was sent some photos of the van in the post on the weekend from Alison at Howies.

Here's Alison on the skate tour with the van in the background. I came up with the idea and Alison made it happen. I looked through all the photos and thought I'd post a couple of my favourites by Jamie Stoker. Really nice shots.





I'm going to submit the van in for next years D&AD awards and I'm thinking I might have to use a couple of these shots. Jamie Stoker if your reading this can I have your permission to use these? Thanks. Loving your work.

Last couple of scribbles

I went to meet my girlfriend the other at Westbourne park and got a phone call from Alison from Howies letting me know that they were doen at the XBOX skate park with the van so I popped down to check it out. It was on the last leg of the tour and it looked great with everyone's comments. Apparently Green Peace phoned Alison up to say how great the idea was. I was really chuffed. So from what was a sketch in my little note book had now turned into a physical living thing that people can interact with.

More scribbles

More pics of the howies van

Scribbles on the van

Just checked out the howies blog and people are scribbling away getting their voice heard on the van! Really excited about it, looks great.

Howies skate tour

I sent Alison from howies this wing mirror which my friend David had sprayed for me. I thought she would like it. The skate tour started at 6am this morning and is going to make its way around England over the weekend and early next week. I'm going to hopefully meet up with the howies team next week for dinner which they kindly invited me to. It'll also be the first time I will see the chalkboard van. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished article.
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Howies 10 summer stunts

This is an idea I came up with for howies the clothing brand. They wanted me to come up with a few ideas for 10 summer stunts to promote howies and to get peple to think (I will post the other ideas soon).

So I spoke to David and Claire Hieatt who own howies and they really liked my idea for a chalk board van, to capture the publics views on envronmental issues, which was brilliant as it was one of my favourite ideas from the ones I had come up with.

Originally I wanted to use a Camper Van but this proved to be too expensive and too much like fat face. Luckily howies had a van to use which was going to be large enough to transport there sponsored skaters and a photographer. So what was merely an idea on paper had turned into a Skate Tour to make people think about Nuclear Power, "So is it green, or is it dumb?".

So this is the final design. I'm waiting to see the final outcome as it all has to be completed by August the 13th so fingers crossed it looks good! Cant wait to see what people will write.

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