interview with
Mike Moreau
Art Print manufacturer
European skateboard
Here you have the awesome interview with Mike Moreau , that is not
only a French skater he’s one of the founders of one the most famous
european skateboards manufacturer. You have no excuses , if you are
on this page right now you must read the whole interview ;)
First of all could you tell us how ArtPrint started, a bit of the history ...
Well Loic and I were working for a tee shirts screenprinting company for a while
and one day of the early year 2001 we tried to print a board or two just to see
how it looked like as long time skateboarders and it was a dream to be able
to print some boards even just for us and friends at the start. Obviously the first
couple of boards were ruined and fucked up but we didn’t discourage :) !! So
we clung on that idea to print boards specially because at that time in 2001
nobody printed skateboards in Europe and we were really into skateboards
which was our main passion since we are 12 years old... It’s been first a long
hard work before we develop different kinds of process from very basic flexible
screens until our digital printing method that we set up in 2005 to produce
photo print boards even in small quantity! This was definitely something NEW in
the skateboard business and we started to be famous in Europe thanks to it! We
a lot have used that technic for different exhibitions and collabs with artists and
photographers, for skateshops and labels too.
All our boards are now screenprinted with no limitation on colors or even
photoprint from only 20 decks per design which is very flexible for anyone
interested to make his own boards.