no ando en patineta
October 5, 2009 
Roughly translates to "I don't ride a skateboard," the personal motto of Argentinean graphic designer Julio Cesar Battistelli, aka YAIA/YAIAGIFT. Dude has a colossal eye for the haggard pop of skate culture, co-opting early punk iconography (e.g. The Misfits' Crimson Ghost, the Circle Jerks crustie) with the depleted uranium of streetwear fash.
Small surprise that Battistelli currently designs for Argentina's CRIME.
From an interview with The Publics last year:
"If you wish you can call me a faker, but I’m honest, I don’t skate, but it´s just a part of this amazing cultural movement that skateboarding is. There is an amazing artwork movement linked to the activity and I love it. Is an anthropology point of view for me. If you look at skateboarding only for the joy of riding a board, you are almost insulting the experience. And if somebody thinks different, it’s fine by me, I will do my artwork as I please anyways."
More from dude's sicker than AIDs Flickr:
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