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Salomon Sick Stick Wins Eco Design Award at ISPO

Salomon Sickstick

Salomon Snowboards accepted the Volvo SportsDesign Award for Eco Design in the boardsports category, in Munich, Germany yesterday.

The design award was presented to Salomon for the SickStick. The SickStick features Salomon’s new patented bamboo sandwich construction process, driven by the goal to improve the performance of Salomon products, while significantly reducing the ecological cost of snowboard production.

An international jury, consisting of design and ecological experts, chose the SickStick out of several well-respected nominees, including Arbor’s Wasteland, two surf products and a Brazilian skateboard. Over 300 products were submitted for consideration in 7different categories.

The SickStick is the result of a design collaboration with Wolle Nyvelt and Josh Dirksen. The new school powder board will be hard to miss on the hill. It is designed to spray a wicked ridgeline, straight-line a chute, butter 180 off a cornice and drop into pow. It will be available in three sizes: 156, 160 and 163. The suggested retail price will be $599.

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Read the jury statement for yourself.

I'd be interested to see how the bamboo sidewalls hold up.

By The_Wallbanger at Sat, 02/02/2008 - 9:22am | login or register to post comments

good job.............?

So Salomon basically copied a board design/ idea that Illuminati has already done, and pretends to be environmentally conscious about it? This is a company that produces many crappy fad products- remember the freestyle walking shoes- how can you claim to be helping to reduce when you over-produce at so many other levels? The only thing they did here was effective marketing.....the uber waster and producer of mirth...lame.
How about reducing the amount of plastic in your god-awful bindings.....

By pjf at Fri, 02/01/2008 - 4:44pm | login or register to post comments

RAD GRAPHiC

WE LOVE THE SCRiPT WORD MARK ON THE TAIL!!!
magical go-go

By magicalgogo.com at Wed, 01/30/2008 - 7:59pm | login or register to post comments

interesting

I recently filled out a salomon survey that asked the question - how can we make our products better? And my response was that they should look into designing their products with the cradle to cradle mindset - the elimination of the idea of waste.

This is a good start.

By dan the man at Wed, 01/30/2008 - 5:02pm | login or register to post comments