Vans X Fairdale (and kind of X Taj too)
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I had the wonderful pleasure of working with both Vans and Fairdale Bikes on a colab package. We took one of my signature bikes, the Taj 27.5" cruiser, and covered it in some special decals I drew. My character Giraffe is the star. He also appears on two Vans shoes they let me design (all veggie) and a water bottle and shirt from Fairdale . Pretty darned sweet project to get to work on. Oh yeah! They also had me bring Giraffe to life in an animated short (that was not that short to make). I packed in a bunch of my bad giraffe jokes, sneaked in a Monty appearance, Steve Van Doren too and had a right ol' laugh making the thing. My buddy Niall Byrne of Redneck Manifesto fame allowed us to use his Bill Blood song as well.