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For many of our clients, the fun part of designing their custom skis comes when it’s time to create a custom ski graphic. Here's our process.

Wagner Custom Skis' newest addition to their Artist Series collection is a literal rock star, someone who is on a first-name basis with Bob Dylan and John Denver. If you don't know his work, we're thrilled to introduce you to Roger Mason.

Derek DeYoung was born in Northern Michigan, and grew up on a bayou near the shores of Lake Michigan. It’s no wonder that fish were what captured his interest early on. We caught up with him at home in his studio to find out more about his art. Here’s what he had to say.

Chilean graphic artist Adolfo Correa has not always been a creator—he began by being an appreciator. As a young child, he collected other people’s graphics by way of stickers, albums, and other everyday artistic trinkets. Check out his collection for Wagner Custom Skis.

Minnesota-born and Aspen-based, a chance encounter with printmaking in a random college elective course put 27 year-old artist Lauren Poppie on a path she never expected, but somehow, always knew was coming. Did she see ski graphics coming?

Lava Glass After meeting in art school, artist Christine Robb and Lynden Over, an award-winning master glass artist, worked together to bring the creative vision that is Lava Glass to life. See how glass translate onto skis.

Hailing from the rollings hills of Pennsylvania, artist Anna Leigh Moore earned a degree in journalism and fine arts and promptly took a job as a railcar porter on a westbound train after graduating in 2013. From the moment she glimpsed the ragged mountains the trajectory of her life was forever changed.

Molly Scannell began her artistic life as a pencil illustrator, making painstaking drawings that were as realistic as photographs. But as time went on, she found herself feeling trapped by the tedious medium. Read on to find out how she broke out of her style.

James Niehues is the artist behind pretty much every ski resort map in North America. To find out more about the man behind the maps, we caught up with Niehues over the phone while he was vacationing on the Oregon coast. This is what he had to say.

There’s a wonderful irony in the fact that Christopher Warren built a successful career by making art out of topographic maps: When he started, that path was nowhere on his life map. Warren created 4 unique skis of maps of some of our favorite places.

“I want to create extreme, juxtaposing emotions,” Miranda Pissarides says. Her work has won awards, including the ArtSlant Showcase Winner award and, most notably, the Saatchi Gallery Young Artist Award in Fine Art in 2018. Check out her work with us.

Rikke Jørgensen is a Danish artist whose artistic journey began with graphic design, evolved with her study of architecture and design, and has now begun to solidify in the world of illustration. Check out her collaboration with Wagner Custom.

Sarah Kinn was born in Ohio in 1971 and has lived in Boulder for past 20 years. She has a dog walking business to support herself and her art.

A Colorado girl from the start, Lindee Zimmer is a public artist, painter, curator, collaborator and teacher living in Denver. A public artist for over 6 years, she loves collaboration, optical illusions, and is a teacher and forever student. We caught up with Lindee to talk about her work.

Reed Weily is fascinated with nostalgia, obsolete technology and ephemera from the late 20th century. An immigration lawyer by day, we caught up with him to talk about his "other" job.

Originally from N.Y. and San Francisco, CA, Danielle DeRoberts (onerary) is a full time artist and collaborator. We caught up with Danielle to talk about her newest collaboration with Wagner Custom.