Custom Graphics Guidance

Your Artwork:

Step 1: Complete a Get Started form and finalize your board specs with our engineers via email.

Step 2: Request a Graphic Template for your exact board specs from the engineer you worked with or our graphic designer

Step 3: Design your graphics and follow all requirements listed below. See video tutorials at the end of the page for further assistance.

Step 4: Submit your completed artwork files to tmyrick@donek.com for approval

Step 5: Once your files are saved and approved, place your order online and choose custom graphics from the drop down menu

Our Artist:

Step 1: Complete a Get Started form and finalize your board specs with our engineers via email.

Step 2: Consult with our in-house designer and provide the images, ideas, colors, and description of your vision, hand sketches of layouts are helpful. Video meetings can be scheduled to discuss ideas and look at images together with the artist

Step 3: Our artist creates your vision and sends you the image for approval, or you can request changes. Cost includes 2 hours of design time, additional time for complicated designs or extensive change requests is $30/hr.

Step 4: Approve the final design of your board and place your order online. Select “Donek helped me create my artwork” from the drop down menu

Printed Graphics Requirements

• Acceptable File Types: Illustrator, SVG, or JPG or TIF file that is 150dpi in RGB color. NO Photoshop files.
• All artwork must be submitted as a vertical rectangle, with the tip of the board at the top and the tail at the bottom
• Artwork must be the full extent of the outer rectangle of the template – DO NOT TRIM THE ARTWORK TO THE SHAPE OF THE SNOWBOARD
• For Illustrator files and SVGs:

– All text must be converted to outlines to avoid missing fonts

– All Linked images must be embedded to avoid missing links

– The board outline template must be on a separate layer labeled “Board Outline”

Topsheets are available in carbonium or gloss texture
Photographic or illustrative artwork is fine
Unfortunately we cannot do Metallic or dayglow colors

Base Graphics Tips

Artwork Positioning and Centering

Due to the limitations of our printing process, we cannot guarantee perfect placement of artwork on your snowboard. The position accuracy is within ±1/4 inch side to side and ±1/2 inch from tip to tail. This means that artwork could be slightly off-center by up to 1/4 inch in either direction, which may result in a total visible shift of up to 1/2 inch when measured across the board’s width.

If your design relies heavily on precise centering, this shift could significantly affect how the artwork appears. For example, a 1/4 inch offset can look like a 1/2 inch misalignment when viewed across the width of the board.

For this reason, we strongly discourage submitting designs that will appear incorrect if they are not perfectly centered. We will not provide refunds or replacements for issues related to artwork positioning, especially when designs are sensitive to these slight shifts.

Graphics Submission Example

Board Shape Templates

Download one or more of the available templates to help get you started.

• Phoenix
• Junior
• Park Twin
• Voyager

Graphic Editors

There are many choices of graphic editors which can produce your image in one of the accepted formats. There are free and low-cost options, as well as, full-featured commercial products. An internet search for “Vector Graphics Editors” will give you an exhaustive list, however, the following Wikipedia page lists many of the available editors.

Vector Graphics Editor Comparison