hi sofa - thanks for your entries, they're great. i know where you're going with the tagging/graffiti angle. i think that half of my customer base might not "get" it. Longboards are at least half of our sales, probably more and if I throw in the parents, the tagging thing could be a problem for me.
I wonder if you'd be able to do a version of
#38 that had a regular skateboard in there as well, so that maybe there's a longboard on one side of the logo and a regular board - different colour maybe, sloping down the other side of the logo, signifying that we do regular skateboards & longboards. i don't know if that will stuff it up because it works now because it's clean and simple but it's an idea. or maybe there's two board together on the left or something.
another thought is a version of 38 that has slightly more colour into the "skateboard express" text. maybe a black outline with the orange/red fade that looks good in some of the other logos ? thanks !!