Collection of Personalised Skateboard Designs

The purpose of his diploma thesis entitled 'Collection of Personalised Skateboard Designs' is to present the skateboard as an expressive tool of skateboarding subculture. Skateboarding art has not been treated as true art throughout history and has only recently been more widely recognised as art. Through the research and execution of his diploma thesis, I wish to demonstrate the significance of the skateboarding movement in art and to explore the Slovenian skateboarding environment.

Problem

The purpose of his diploma thesis entitled 'Collection of Personalised Skateboard Designs' is to present the skateboard as an expressive tool of skateboarding subculture. Skateboarding art has not been treated as true art throughout history and has only recently been more widely recognised as art.

Solution and Method

Through the research and execution of his diploma thesis, I wish to demonstrate the significance of the skateboarding movement in art and to explore the Slovenian skateboarding environment. Throughout the thesis, she will explore the historical significance of the skateboarding movement in the cultural field and how skateboarding art has developed. She will highlight several key artists who have contributed to the development of this art form.

Through research, she will present how skateboards were personalised in the past and which techniques were used. The research will also present how skateboard personalisation takes place today, whilst also touching upon the topic of mass industrial skateboard design. She will present the process of personalising the selected object, the optimal approach to this, and what skateboard personalisation means to its users.

She will compile a questionnaire on the topic of personalisation, through which she will obtain detailed responses from the client, with which she will attempt to further realise the client's personal vision through design. In the diploma thesis, she will also explore the possibilities of personalisation with the help of artificial intelligence – so-called art generators, which have become very popular online in recent years. She will present artificial intelligence as a tool for everyone who has access to the internet, regardless of whether they are artists or not.

She will also examine the legal and ethical aspects of using artificial intelligence generators and how this affects the art market. The key point in the diploma thesis will be a comparison between the resulting products, that is, between the product that I will make and the product that will be created by artificial intelligence. She will carry out the comparison by having selected individuals express their opinion as to which product better expresses their personal vision.