Why be bored in school? Go to a Skateboard School! This Toronto District School Board alternative school design program helps students earn high school credits and graduate by creating their own brand and running a skateboard business / professional design studio. OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY (OSF) "ON THE GRIND": TDSB's ART & ENTREPRENEURSHIP O.G.s since 2006!

Friday, April 30, 2021

REGISTRATION FOR SEPTEMBER IS NOW OPEN!

 


Want to join Team OSF? Registration for School stating in September, OSF Year 13, opens May 1st for future OSF SK8 Ratz age 16+... Email craig.morrison@tdsb.on.ca for an Application Package to become a member of our crew, earn high school credits and graduate by starting your own skate brand and running our skateboard business / design studio. 🐀♥️

 


Looking forward to this! OSF’s teacher Craig started this yearly art show 16 (!!!) years ago to provide a platform for the creativity flowing out of our family of 9 alt9 alternative high schools and the folks Xpace Cultural Centreare amazing in their commitment to supporting emerging artists/designers from Toronto District School Board alternative schools. Can’t wait till the website gallery and public window display (made with GelaSkins) launches May 12!

 



Awesome Anomaly Lunch & Learn by Tshai Thompson helping us think as designers about being inclusive and adapting our brands/products to people with disabilities and the importance of Universal Design, followed by a zoom class discussion around Adaptive Skateboarding today...

 



Skate over to Instagram to check out the rad brands our OSF student designers are working on...

 


Visualization by OSF designers of the @alt9schools window display up May 12 @xpacecc being manufactured with the help of @gelaskins to amplify the creative voices of alternative school students who identify as Black, Indigenous, racialized youth in our family of 9 TDSB schools.

 


Project Plan for Quad 4

 


Ending Quad 3 with some remote student brand sock production (thanks Peace and Cotton !)

 






Thursday, April 15, 2021

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

OSF STUDENTS: Now that we have pivoted again to remote learning, please be aware that an updated list of projects due by April 19 has been posted to the announcements on OSF SATELLITE STUDIOS and will be sent to you.

 


UPDATE FOR OSF STUDENTS: As of tomorrow April 7 we will move to learning online through OSF Satellite Studios (classroom is closed/no in-person learning)

 


Another product from the OSF screenprinting studio: Tee by ZULDUH SKATE for our online Pop Up Shop

 


New N3CTAR Tee screenprinted in-house at OSF


 

New Brat Board! (Instagram @bratskateboards)

 


A successful print day with our talented Crew 2 designers!

 


Started screenprinting student branded tees in the studio today....

 






Screenprinting our On the Land themed project for our collab with Kinngait youth in the studio this week...

 






Brat Skateboards is pulling some prints and working on getting the OSF screenprinting studio back up and running soon....


 



Peace & Cotton talking about Experiential Branding and leading a discussion with all crews in person and at home today, generating ideas for safe IRL activations of student online brands







 

Longboard for a client by Spartan Skateboards

 


First project completed back home in our studio by Magic Forte