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You voted for the 2026 Wagner Custom Graphics Fan Favorite Awards and here are the results! Thank you for helping us celebrate the creativity, vision, and craftsmanship behind our boldest custom graphics.

Tips from Wagner's In-House Design Team When it comes to building custom skis, half of the fun is choosing your graphics. Seeing your ski designs c...

Artist and mountain guide Peggy Flavin brings animal-inspired storytelling to Wagner ski topsheets, merging creativity, resilience, and mountain culture.

Photographer Pete McBride teams up with Wagner Skis to turn Colorado River imagery into skis that raise awareness and support river conservation.

Discover how artist Charlotte Coughlin turns nature, color, and playful pattern-making into bold ski topsheets for Wagner Custom.

The new House graphics are here! This year we’re doing things a little differently: instead of dropping all twelve designs at once, we’ll be releasing six new House Graphics now, and six more through the season.

Drum roll, please… The 2025 Wagner Custom Fan Favorite Graphics results are here! We asked you to vote for in our Fan Favorite Graphics contest, and, wow, did you ever! We tallied almost 1,000 votes this year, and we're thrilled to announce the winners. See if your favorite graphic made it to the No. 1 spot!

There are some people in this world who inexplicably sparkle, like they toddled through a cloud of magic dust in some fairy forest along the way, and everything they touch sparkles, too. Artist Shannon Foley Henn, who designed our latest topsheet graphics, is one such person. We caught up with her to see what she had to say.

Kylee Firlit is a rarity, as she’s both an artist and a graphic designer—and she’s insanely talented at both. She’s also a passionate skier, climber, mountain biker, and runner, which is why her resume is packed with brands like Black Diamond, Mountain Hardwear, Kühl, and now, we’re honored to say, Wagner Custom.

Cecelia Leddy, who goes by the artist name Teeny Botanist, has a bio on her website that describes her work as focusing on “connections between people, places, and nature.” We caught up with Leddy recently to ask her about the fun animal graphics she created for our Artist Series skis. Here’s what she had to say.​

You’ve never seen skis like these before. Artist Cie Hoover, who lives in Ouray, Colo., has transformed our wood veneer topsheets into custom pieces of art that will turn heads in every lift line. We sit down with Cie to learn more about him.

We've been hard at work over the summer working out new House graphics for your consideration. From an update and expansion of a perennial favorite (Local Redux), to subtle color tones or high contrast, we have got you covered in 2025! Take a look at the our 2025 collection.

August? New wood veneers already? We're moving up our release dates for all of our graphics this year, and we're starting with a couple of wood veneers for your consideration.

Artist Danny Starr’s work ranges from pastoral landscapes soaked in sunlight to... dragons, skulls, and people with melting faces that delve into the murky waters of existentialism. We caught up with him recently to find out more about his art and what makes him tick. Read what he has to say.