DESIGN A SNOWBOARD!
We've teamed up with British handmade snowboard builders DOUK to get our snowsports community stoked for winter! Our Design A Snowboard competition will see one lucky winner have their design brought to life on DOUK snowboard, handmade right here in the UK! How's that for an early Christmas present!?
Let your imagination run wild and design the snowboard graphic of your dreams!
Download one of the blank template designs below, kids (or adults!) can colour it in, while those with computer design skills can get to work with the software of your choice.
As well as this incredible handmade snowboard (with your radical design atop) the winner will also receive a one month pass to sharpen your shred skills here at Graystone before hitting the snow. Free pass to be used once lockdown has finished.
All non-winning entrants will get 20% discount on a custom board with DOUK.
DESIGN INSTRUCTIONS
SIZE - When you do create your design make it bigger than the actual desired length (4 cm longer and at least 2 cm wider).
During printing and construction, we get a little shrinkage and movement so we want to make sure your design covers the whole board/ski and there are no blank bits.
You send your design in like this, bigger than it needs to be.
RESOLUTION - We highly recommend you get the image as high a resolution as possible 300dpi (dots per inch) we have had great results with a lesser resolution, but the higher the better.
​If the images are not as big as the overall size you want but have a high resolution e.g. 1200dpi can be stretched 4x bigger so it is then around 300dpi.
FILE FORMAT - We have had images sent in many formats and will do our best to work with what you send. Our preferred file format is Ai as we work mainly in CorelDraw and Photoshop. other formats we recommend are PDF's, TIFF's JPG's
IMAGE STYLE - There have been many different styles of images sent in but most popular is vector base images, we have had scans of hand drawings, photographs, paintings, images from stock photo websites.
COLOUR - We print in CMYK but what you see on a monitor is in RGB (looks brighter than CMYK) we will always try our best to match the colours of your design, this can not always be guaranteed as devise/programs/monitors, etc can alter colour so what we see might not be exactly the same as what you have at your end. If you have a specific colour you need please send a sample and we will do a test print and send it back to you.
HOW TO ENTER & T'S & C'S
UK residents only. Competition is in no way endorsed or sponsored by Instagram. Up for grabs is a custom made snowboard featuring the design of the winning entry as chosen by Graystone. Competition deadline is 23:59 December 13th, 2020. Graystone will announce the winner by 23:59 December 21st, 2020. To enter you must download the template, input your design (hand-drawn or computer illustrated) and post a photo or screen grab of the image to Instagram using the hashtag #DesignASnowDeck.