PASS~PORT - Straight out of Sydney, Australia.
Pass~Port is another new brand from Australia that is sure to gain more and more attention in the coming years. The roots of the company are not hidden but openly incorporated into the design of the boards and clothing. Collaborations with Nike SB and Vans show that the guys from Sydney are currently doing everything right.
Trent Evans. With this name, a new era began for the Australian skate scene and beyond its own borders. In 2009, the trained graphic designer and former employee of the skate shop
Equipped with a VX1000 and a lot of motivation, Evans set out to bring the local scene back onto the world stage. With his team, including Dean Palmer, Keegan Walker, and Nik Stipanovic, he was able to export Passport from the initially small Australian shops across the seas to Europe, Japan, and the USA in a very short time. Today, Passport is one of the most well-known and popular brands.
Last but not least, Trent Evans & Passport impress with their artistic graphics and close cooperation with various artists. The graphics for the boards, shirts, or beanies were designed by Toby Zoates. The brand’s broad interest and support for the art and culture scene are also reflected in the featured artists: photographs by Sam Stephenson are represented here as well as those by The Agony & The Ecstacy.
Thus, Passport continually surprises with unusual and carefully designed graphics. Ultimately, it is Trent Evans’s multifaceted interests and the creative people like skaters around him that have made Passport what it is today: an indispensable fixture in the global skateboard scene.
