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Summer, summer, summer! For us the first summer’s day is the day we wear a pair of shorts, and that day is today!

If you are registered at the bastard store for our newsletter, we offer a 20% OFF on our collection of shorts.

Insert the coupon code you received by email during the checkout.

The promotion is also available on our flagship store in Milano, you just need to tell the promotion code to shop assistants.

This promotion is valid until Friday June 15.

We are glad to introduce to you the result of a collaboration with bastard and one of its favourite artists: the Sanseb t-shirt designed by Jim Houser.

We met Jim during “The Tip of the Sword”, his solo exhibition at Patricia Armocida’s gallery in Milan. Jim paid a visit to the bastard bowl and we fell in love with his work, intense, striking and colourful but calm at the same time.

Jim Houser is an american artist, skateboarder and musician grow up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. He is one of the founding artists of Space 1026 and one of the most prolific artists at Toy Machine skateboards. Houser’s works have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Brazil. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Harry up the t-shirt Sanseb is available online now in black or white.

Our friend Jacopo aka 2501 just came to the bastard store to get some boardshorts Waved he designed for the bastard spring summer 2012 collection.

He is always smiling, busy to paint huge walls around the world. Despite his busy schedule, 2501 promised to get around to decorate some new products soon.

Follow Jacopo and his black and white stripes world here and here.

A great piece of the _italian skateboarding history_ narrated directly by Zampa and Paolo Nelzi of Graw Skateboards. Enjoy [italian language only].

Good news in Jart Skateboards.

After more than three years a new full length video is coming. “All you need” is the name of the video, edited by Jesús Gómez and featuring all the Jart team riders, from Ivan Rivado to Bastien Salabanzi. Enjoi the trailer.

On team side, Bastien Salabanzi got the 2nd place in the first stop of 2012 street league, Kansas City. He is the newcomer in Street League, but he’s not afraid of competition.

bastard‘s next back to school project was selected, along with projects from 14 other brands in the design industry, to take part in a nice venture promoted by Camera di Commercio di Milano and Provincia in collaboration with Material ConneXion Italia, Domus Academy, IED, NABA and Politecnico di Milano.

Pick a hundred students, coordinated by prominent teachers from the best design schools in Milan, the biggest center in the world for research and consulting on materials and productive processes and 15 Milan based brands that are into developing and bringing innovative products to the market; this is the basic recipe of Un Designer per le Imprese 2012.

We have already started working on it and in the next few days we will meet, at their schools, all the students interested in working with us.

Strane creature verdi che studiano i riti dei celti e dei longobardi Non parlan la lingua italiana non sanno chi fosse il poeta leopardi ma
Odiano il kebab, maometto i senza tetto e anche la pizza chiacchere da bar, si mischia la polenta con la razza.
Inventan qualche balla attirano la folla col rito dell’ampolla e l’offerta al dio Po.
Ricordo gli esordi degli uomini verdi eran contro i terroni i pugliesi e anche i sardi, i finocchi gli zingari, i negri bastardi, il tricolore e garibaldi.
Odiano il kebab, Maometto i senzatetto e anche la pizza chiacchere da bar si mischia la polenta con la razza.
Cantando il va pensiero ci credono davvero fedeli a un condottiero un druido fatto un pò così non parla neanche bene si esprime solo a gesti se lo incontri per la strada proprio non diresti che
Lui crede di far parte della razza superiore si può fermare solo con l’aiuto del dottore ma se la scienza medica si mostra pessimista ci vuole l’esorcista.
Ma tu senti che puzza scappano anche i cani stanno arrivando i napoletani. Napoli merda Napoli colera tu sei la rovina dell’Italia intera. Ma vorrei che fosse chiaro che tra i napoletani ce ne son tantissimi per bene e anche di più, non siamo non siamo quelli che pure ci chiamano zulu. Odiano il kebab, maometto i senza tetto e anche la pizza chiacchere da bar, si mischia la polenta con la razza.
Cantando il va pensiero ci credono davvero fedeli a un condottiero un druido fatto un pò così non parla neanche bene si esprime solo a gesti se lo incontri per la strada proprio non diresti che
Lui crede di far parte della razza superiore si può fermare solo con l’aiuto del dottore. Ha un posto fisso in villa si sente lusingato ma poi la vera festa inizia quando se ne è andato.
Lui crede di far parte della razza superiore si può fermare solo con laiuto del dottore. Il vero risultato del miracolo padano l’ndrangheta a Milano.

The Marcin Day 2012 will take place on sunday, May 20th at the Cineskatepark in Rome. Skate, music and friends, the best way to remember our friend Marcin Solecki, who left us too soon.

The More the Merrier.

Cineskatepark, via Pasquale Stabilini 1, Rome.
May 20th from 11,30 AM

Check the Marcin Day 2012 official facebook page for further information.

About a year ago, while skating the bastard bowl, Daniele Galli got injured.

An average person would require physical therapy for the recovery process. He would there find physical therapists, nurses and advanced machinery to do the job.
We can safely say that Daniele Galli is not your average person since what you see here was his way to recover from a nasty injury.

Enjoy.

We are happy to introduce the first bastard school line that is distributed in the best stationery shops throughout Italy and sold online in the School section of the bastard store.

Production and distribution are handled by Biembi S.p.A. of Milan.