sketchythedawg is a footwear designer, skateboard footwear historian, and amateur vintage archivist, with a penchant for illustration and antics.
The sketchythedawg aesthetic can be roughly defined as ‘playfully elevated core street’. His roots in skateboarding, interest in high fashion, and love for rave aesthetics, are blended together with elements of 90’s childhood nostalgia - resulting in a perspective intended to be toyetically sublime, garish, and highly stylized, while retaining stringent rules of taste.
Sketchythedawg was born and raised in the Chicago-land area, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, from which he received a bachelors of design in industrial design.
In his free time, he enjoys skateboarding, tropical destinations, horror movies, and browsing second-hand markets in search of the artifacts which inform his vision. Check out the Archive of sketchythedawg for a deeper insight into his inspirations and hoarding habits.
Fun Facts:
DOB: 08/15/1994
Shoe size: 7 US
Stance: Goofy
Words to live by: “Snack free, or crunch hard.”
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