These aren’t the first Devo skateboards, there was a possible bootleg as well as an official model from Globe circa 2008, although I never actually saw them for sale anywhere. It’s all moot now, as we dance the pool to these six new official Devo decks you can pre-order a the official Devo merch site. Five of the boards feature art based on the first 5 album covers I can see omitting Smooth Noodle Maps and even Total Devo but what about Shout! and definitely Something for Everyone? Oh yes, we have to mention the truly devolved Energy Dome model! All the boards feature different top graphics as well. These look great, and they should because they cost $120 (!) each except for the Energy Dome model, which is $150.
Turns out this project is somehow a collaboration with Steve Saiz! These are great looking decks to be sure, although the purist in me would have preferred that they were screen prints and not heat transfers, especially at this price point. I’m also glad these are not popsicle sticks. How was Devo not approached about having a licensed board in the 80’s??? They would have sold in the tens of thousands.
Let’s talk about the money bumps on the Energy Dome model! Maybe not super functional for flip tricks but think how (fatally) locked in you’ll be able to get your smith grinds!
In the Club DEVO post Zach Hollowell pointed out a Devo-themed enjoi model for Zack Wallin. I couldn’t find it anywhere except in a 2020 post at HeshDawgz, and I don’t speak Japanese so I have no idea when this actually came out. This is great looking deck for it to be so invisible on the internet, which makes me think there was possibly a cease and desist involved.
Thanks to Joseph Phillip Lister Sr for this pic of the Globe wheels from some years back. Had I ever seen these when they were available I definitely would have bought them.
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Steve Saiz
Hey SnA!! Stoked to see our DEVO Collab Perez with Saiz write up!! Thx!! Just to note, Gino Perez is my partner with the DEVO collab. Glad you like the fact that we did our own 80’s shape not popsicle shape!! I thought it needed to be a board shape closer to the 80’s and would be something fun to skate now, like a redesign/collab I did with the Bruce Lee Family and Powell of Ray Bones’ Skull & Sword graphic!! That Bruce Lee board was done on a 70’s (a shape he could’ve been on back then) and 80’s shape. Workin with Mothersbaugh, Casale and the DEVO family has been a mindblower!! DEVO was one of the 1st bands I heard as a little kook skater kid at Lakewood Skateboard, then seeing them on SNL…!!! That was the start of skateboarding, art, music…all of it!! – Saiz
Kilwag
Congrats on the well done collab, thanks for chiming in!
Joseph Phillip Lister Sr.
Hey! Those wheels actually came on a long board my kids gifted me for xmas about twenty years ago. The deck had a DEVO graphic on the bottom, along with those wheels. I pulled the wheels and installed something with a softer duro and a larger diameter and proceeded to bomb some hills. The original wheels were shrink-wrapped and put in storage. When I saw those new decks that just came out, I remembered those wheels and hunted around until I finally found them, still in pristine condition.
Kilwag
Wheels would be sweet set up on one of these decks!