I’m Joe Tamponi, and I’m not an Italian-American baseball player as my name can suggest. I’m a freelance illustrator from Sardinia (Italy), inspired by skateboarding, surfing, punk rock art from 80s/90s. I grew up skateboarding & surfing a little bit, inspired by the graphics from Zero Skateboards, Fallen Footwear, Mystery Skateboards, (basically all the Jamie Thomas kind of stuff) and of course Santa Cruz Skateboards and many of the NHS products. But I’ve always been fascinated by the psychedelic art from 60s-70s, the stunning Work of Wes Wilson and Stanley Mouse for example.