Design your dream surfboard.
Before it ever touches foam.
A workbook for surfers, shapers, and anyone obsessed with surf culture.
This is where your next surfboard begins.
Find your place in the lineup.
Whether you're riding it, shaping it, glassing it, or painting it — there's a book built for how you work.
Surfers
Design the board you’ve always wanted to ride.
Shapers
A working notebook for custom surfboard design.
Glassers
Your final board matches the original vision.
Artists
A surfboard becomes your moving canvas.
Surfers
Design your dream board. Work directly with your shaper. Surf it the way it was meant to be surfed.
This is where the idea of “your board” stops being abstract and becomes something you can actually build. For surfers, Board Art Art Boards is a space to design the surfboard you have always wanted, matched to your wave, your style, your progression, and your local break. Instead of relying on guesswork or off-the-rack compromises, you get to visually map your ideal board before it exists.
More importantly, it becomes a collaboration tool between you and your shaper. You can communicate outlines, dimensions, fin setups, rocker preferences, and even visual direction in a way that actually translates. No more lost ideas between conversation and glassing room. What you imagine becomes something your shaper can interpret with precision.
Over time, your books become your personal surfboard archive. A visual record of progression, experiments, dream boards, and refinements. It is not just design. It is ownership of your surf journey.
Shapers
Turn conversation into clarity. Turn ideas into boards. Build your evolving surfboard catalog.
For shapers, this is a communication and design system disguised as a workbook. It bridges the gap between surfer intention and physical execution. Every outline, dimension, fin placement, and rocker note becomes structured, visual, and repeatable, reducing ambiguity and elevating collaboration.
It also creates a shared language between all parts of the build, including surfer, shaper, and glasser. From airbrush direction to glass schedule notes, artwork placement to rail profiles, everything can be mapped before foam is cut. That means fewer misinterpretations and more intentional boards.
Over time, each completed book becomes a living catalog of your shaping identity. A physical portfolio of designs, refinements, and collaborations that can be used for client presentation, marketing, and shaping lineage. It becomes less about single boards and more about a body of work.
Glassers
Bring design intent into the glassing room. Make every finish consistent, intentional, and dialed.
For glassers, consistency is everything and this workbook gives you a visual blueprint before resin ever hits the board. Instead of interpreting loose descriptions, you get clear direction on color placement, swirl patterns, pinlines, fades, and finish expectations.
It helps translate creative intent into repeatable execution. Whether it is a single custom board or a full batch run, you can align with the surfer and shaper on exactly how the final product should look and feel. No guesswork. No miscommunication between shaping bay and glassing room.
It also acts as a visual safeguard for design integrity. The board that leaves the glassing bay matches what was imagined in the design phase for both the surfer buying it and the shaper who shaped it. Clean execution starts with clear intent.
Artists
A canvas built for surfboards, but open to anything you imagine.
For artists, this is not just a surf tool. It is a structured canvas system for long, narrow, sculptural design. The books are printed on high-quality paper designed to support multiple media, including pencil, ink, markers, gouache, collage, and mixed media exploration.
You do not need to be a surfer to use it. You just need to see surfboards as a form, an object that carries art into motion. These pages allow artists to explore proportion, flow, and narrative in a unique format that exists between design and fine art.
For some, this becomes the first step into surfboard collaboration itself, transitioning from page to physical board, working with shapers to bring artwork into resin, foam, and fiberglass.
The stoke is real.
Don't take our word for it. Here's what the surf community is saying.
The Monday M.A.S.S. With Chris Coté and Todd Richards
"The books are more fun and useful than I thought. Stoked."
"We got ours and it is awesome kids love it!"
"Your idea and product look awesome... I plan to learn surf shaping and your booklet is brilliant."
"Yes it made it yesterday! Super cool. Love the paper/pages "
The stoke starts with you! Please follow us @boardartartboards
Inside the books:
No rules. Just ideas.
- Fish, shortboards, mid-lengths, and longboards
- Precision grid for dialing in dimensions
- Paper that takes anything: pencil, marker, paint
Get it on your shelves.
For the shops, schools, and spaces where surf culture lives. Wholesale pricing and bulk rates available.
Surf Shops
A product your customers pick up and don't put down.
Surf Schools, Camps & Retreats
Give your students and guests something to take home besides saltwater.
Wave Pools & Surf Parks
Where the next generation of surfers is being made.
Galleries & Concept Shops
A product that lives at the intersection of surf and art.
Surf Shops
A product your customers pick up and don't put down.
Board Art Art Boards is the kind of impulse buy that sells itself. It lives naturally next to wax, fins, and leashes. Low footprint, high margin, and immediately understood by anyone who surfs. Customers pick it up, flip through it, and picture their next board. That's when it sells.
It also drives conversation on the floor. Ask a surfer what their next board should be and you won't get a short answer. This is the product that starts that conversation and closes it at the register.
Available in four shape-specific editions: Fish, Shortboard, Mid Length, and Longboard, or the All Boards edition that covers everything. Easy to merchandise, easy to reorder, and something your regulars will come back for again and again.
Wholesale pricing and reorder programs available. Contact us to get started.
Surf Schools, Events, and Camps
Give your students and guests something to take home besides saltwater.
Board Art Art Boards adds a creative dimension to surf education that goes beyond the water. When students, especially younger ones, can draw, design, and dream about boards between lessons, you deepen their connection to surf culture and to your program.
Use them in shaping workshops, beginner clinics, and surf camps, or as part of a welcome kit for new students and arriving guests. The All Boards edition covers every shape they'll learn to ride, making it a natural fit for any curriculum or camp activity.
On rest days, rainy afternoons, or evening wind-downs, designing a dream board is a surprisingly deep conversation starter about waves, style, progression, and what surfing means to each person. It's the kind of souvenir guests actually use long after they've left.
Bulk pricing available for events, classes, programs, seasonal camps, and multi-week retreats. Contact us for school and program pricing.
Wave Pools & Surf Parks
Where the next generation of surfers is being made.
Wave pools are changing everything about how people discover surfing. The athletes are more dedicated, the sessions are more intentional, and the culture around surf parks is growing fast. Board Art Art Boards fits naturally into that world.
Stock them in your pro shop as a companion to lessons and coaching programs. Include them in membership welcome kits. Use them as a creative activity in your lounge or rest areas between sessions. For a surfer who just rode their best wave ever, sitting down to design their next board is the most natural thing in the world.
Wave park guests tend to be passionate, progression-minded, and deeply invested in surf culture. This is exactly the kind of product they pick up, flip through, and take home.
Bulk pricing available for pro shops, membership programs, and surf park retail. Contact us to talk about what works for your space.
Galleries & Concept Shops
A product that lives at the intersection of surf and art.
For stores and galleries that curate around surf culture, craft, and coastal living, Board Art Art Boards fits naturally. Designed with intention, printed in the U.S.A., and made with recycled materials, it's built around the idea that a surfboard is as much an art object as it is sports equipment.
It appeals to collectors, artists, designers, and anyone who sees surf culture as something more than a sport. The books work as standalone retail, as part of a curated surf lifestyle display, or as a companion piece alongside surfboard art, photography, and handmade goods.
Your customers are already drawn to things made with care and purpose. This is one of them.
Apply for wholesale access below and tell us about your space.
