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Flip Skateboards • adidas Spezial

An independent visual note on the Flip Skateboards and adidas Spezial collaboration, centred on Xavier Ryan and the public architecture of the ride.

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Xavier Ryan airborne over a skateboard in a Flip Skateboards and adidas Spezial campaign image

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A collaboration campaign built on open concrete, wide skies and the instant where the board leaves the ground.

Black-and-white Flip Skateboards and adidas Spezial campaign image of Xavier Ryan jumping over his skateboard
Xavier Ryan airborne in a monochrome campaign frame.
Colour Flip Skateboards and adidas Spezial campaign image of Xavier Ryan jumping over his skateboard
Xavier Ryan in colour against an open sky.
Black-and-white campaign image of Xavier Ryan flipping his skateboard over a stair set
A black-and-white stair-set sequence in the collaboration campaign.
Colour campaign image of Xavier Ryan flipping his skateboard over a stair set
The same stair-set moment in full colour.
Xavier Ryan skating a stone ledge in a Flip Skateboards pro model campaign image
Xavier Ryan’s Flip pro model campaign portrait.
Xavier Ryan performing an aerial skateboard trick in an urban plaza
Xavier Ryan clears an urban plaza in the final campaign frame.
Xavier Ryan performing a switch frontside feeble on a rail in Warsaw, Poland
Xavier Ryan’s switch frontside feeble in Warsaw, Poland.
Xavier Ryan performing a switch front overcrook on a rail in Warsaw, Poland
Xavier Ryan’s switch front overcrook in Warsaw, Poland.
Xavier Ryan performing a switch hardflip over a brick bank in an adidas Skateboarding campaign image
Xavier Ryan’s switch hardflip in the Flip Skateboards and adidas Spezial campaign.
Adidas Spezial and Flip Skateboards campaign poster showing Xavier Ryan with a skateboard
Built Different campaign artwork for the Spezial skate collaboration.
Xavier Ryan signing a skateboard for visitors at an adidas pop-up in London
Xavier Ryan signs boards at the London pop-up.
Xavier Ryan signing skateboards for visitors at an adidas pop-up in Brussels
The Brussels board-signing stop brings the campaign into the store.
Xavier Ryan at an adidas board-signing event in Beijing with Spezial collaboration skateboards
Beijing, China: a board signing with the collaboration decks on display.
Nighttime view of SoFi Stadium with fireworks and Flip Skateboards campaign billboards
Flip campaign billboards light the approach to SoFi Stadium.
Xavier Ryan skateboarding over a rail in a Flip footwear campaign poster
Built to Go Bigger: Xavier Ryan’s Flip footwear campaign frame.
Black-and-white Flip Skateboards promotional graphic featuring Xavier Ryan mid-air on a skateboard
Xavier Ryan in a black-and-white Flip Skateboards promotional graphic.
Black-and-white adidas Skateboarding image of a skateboarder performing a trick near trees
A grainy field frame: switch front big heel, 180 front Smith, impossible out.
Thrasher Magazine June 2024 cover featuring Xavier Ryan skateboarding a rail
Xavier Ryan on the June 2024 Thrasher Magazine cover.

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