Greetings, Shredderz! Here’s an O’Neill ad from sometime in the 80s featuring Mike Cruikshank and Martin Potter. This ad, like so many others I’ve featured here, originally appeared on Davis Ballard’s amazing Dusty Ads site.
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Greetings, Shredderz! I’ll cut right to the chase here: I have zero clue what’s going on in this 80s Gotcha ad. It appears to be a slightly more subdued companion to another Gotcha ad that I featured way back. Head scratching poses aside, I do like the artwork and the aesthetics, and you…
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Greetings, Shredderz! For this evening’s Sagas of Shred entry we’ve got yet another Gotcha ad. I’ve featured more than a few Gotcha spots here on the blog, and for my money, Michael Tomson’s brand ran some of the best marketing campaigns in the history of surfing. Gotcha certainly owes part of its success…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I’ve written many — maybe too many — posts expressing my admiration for Gotcha’s boundary pushing ad campaigns during the Eighties and Nineties. The brand, led by the talented and troubled Michael Tomson, had an undeniable swagger and a distinct visual identity during its prime, not to mention a logo designed…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got an ad that originally appeared in the September 1989 issue of Surfer Magazine (Vol 30, No 9). We’ve featured Herbie Fletcher and his projects more than a few times here (and let’s not forget his wife Dibi, who I believe is instrumental in running Astrodeck.) Fletcher has always…
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Greetings, Shredderz! For today’s Sagas of Shred entry we’re featuring an advertisement for the Blue Hawaii Pottz Twinzer Model. (See here for an earlier entry on the same board.) The Blue Hawaii ad you see above originally ran in the February 1992 issue of Surfing Magazine (Vol 28, No 2). Potter is most…
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Greetings, Shredderz! For those of you who aren’t hip to the program, I scan a different vintage surf ad every Thursday evening and post it as part of the Sagas of Shred series. I’ve written up Gotcha’s groundbreaking advertisements many times here on the blog. If it’s still not clear, I’m a huge…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Look, I might be on vacation (no surfing for me over the next few weeks, I’m afraid), but Sagas of Shred continues, paid time off or not. I’m away from my trusty stash of vintage Surfer magazines, so I’ll mostly be plucking some choice scans from the internet. Pictured here is…
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If neon isn’t your thing, you’re probably gonna want to go ahead and close this tab immediately. Likewise, if you’re not into seeing a handful of all-time surf greats all in one photo, this one might not be up your alley. But if those two things are your kind of deal, then you…
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Before “More Core”, Gotcha was apparently focused on keeping the beat. Sagas of Shred has featured some Gotcha ads before, including this classic, and for good reason. I still think Gotcha’s contributions to surf culture are criminally overlooked. (On a related note, here’s an incredible Stussy thruster that belonged to Gotcha founder Michael…
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