Product Concept.
Clear Longboard
AKQA gave my partner and me $1,000 to bring our passion project to life: Create the first-ever see-through longboard. We already had the acrylic boards cut and ready. The problem was an industrial oven (vital to heat and bend the acrylic) costs about $3,000. So we decided to build our own oven. From scratch. Three months later, the longboard was on the streets. And the oven is still in his backyard.
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