sport: surf

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Pretty Pictures

Xworks Design Portfolio Highlights 2010-11


As well as Event creation and management, we are also very skilled in print and web advertising and marketing.
Please click on the gallery below for a few highlights from the last 6 months, mainly print ads for Tiki, Hot Buttered and Resin8 surfboards.
The Tiki Feather Foil cross section diagram is entirely generated in photoshop based [...]

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Activists

Blimey O’reilly


Mitch Corbett continues his unbelievable return to form with another cover shot, just 3 months after the last one.
Mitch has spent the last winter roaming the British Isles looking for waves. First a trip to some Islands very far north turned up a new slab discovery, nicknamed Evies, and Cover shot number 1.
Then a trip [...]

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Activists

fresh talent


Xworks are stoked to welcome top surf model, Corinne Evans to our Activists team.
Corinne has been surfing and modelling for just 3 years but has made an impact already on the surfing community. Corinne has an extensive portfolio showcasing her surfing and modelling talents.

Early in 2010 Corinne signed with Fox Europe, propelling her into the [...]

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Activists

From Coma to Cover Shot


Exactly one year today Xworks activist,  Mitch Corbett was in a coma. He was stable, but in a serious condition with a potentially life threatening head injury. Even if it didn’t kill him no one knew how it would affect his life.
It was a shocking time. Mitch had been on a high after a really [...]

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News

Why Travel?


Apologies for the delay in blog posts. The lure of snow and swell and parties proved too much of a distraction through December.
A series of decent dumps made Cheltenham’s Mountainboard mecca; Cleeve Hill into a veritable Snowboard park. We also worked on a quad powered kicker session only to be shut down by the man.
Meanwhile [...]

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New Client

Museum of British Surfing


Through our design faction – philipbridgesdesign.com – we have just completed the Identity and Branding for the Museum of British Surfing.
This was a very complicated brief needing to be both authoritative and subversive, ’surfy’ but not cheesy, British but not too nationalistic, iconic but not egotistical, and at the same time appealing to surfers and [...]

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New activists

Xworks Surfers


Top quality images rely on top quality athletes. Our roster of surfers now includes the UK’s top surfers and the winner of WORLD SPORTS MODEL 2009.
Alan Stokes
Stokesy does the pro-surfer bit, like a pro. His competitive history has the kudos:
Alan was picked to represent his country at the European championships at only fourteen years old [...]

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client

White Air Extreme Sports Festival


Xworks first involvement with White Air was a wooden chipboard kicker on a grassy hav-a-go area nearly 10 years ago. It must have been a good kicker as 10 years later when the White Air festival launched into national awareness with a huge festival site on the Brighton sea front, Xworks, represented by Makin Trax, [...]

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Tiki Surfing Hardware


The UK’s largest and longest running purveyor of fine surfing equipment. Established in 1963 and still run by the same barefoot, salt encrusted directors.
Six years of art direction and PR has seen photo trips to the Maldives and Ireland, product innovation in heated wetsuit and carbon/EPS/epoxy composite surfboards, sponsorship of world class surfers and high [...]

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Resin8 Surfboards


Resin8 surfboards make some pretty damn fine boards. All hand shaped, hand made, exact replicas of models by Sam Egan and Wade Tokoro – (if you dont know the names just google them), made from a cutting edge technology.
A damn fine, cutting edge surfboard maker needs super sharp presentation. Click on the brochures below to [...]

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