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About. Origin Story. Welcome was founded in 2010 by Jason Celaya, out of his home, with $2,000.00 on a credit card. Welcome started as a means of creating something different for a small group of friends - something that was non-conforming to what was popular at the time. Unable to afford a professional artist, Jason began illustrating for ...
Feb 4, 2014 · Published 2/4/2014 by Rob Meronek. Welcome Skateboards was started by Jason Celaya, Minister of Magic, and has managed to build up a pretty good following with their unique shapes and artwork. Jason's the skater behind it all. We're carrying Welcome in The Boardr Store, so I hit him up with a few bid'niss questions on his experience and ...
- Who Is Jason Celaya
- Small Talk
- Art & Skateboard Graphics
- Skateboarding Industry Chat
- Starting & Running Welcome Skateboards
I remember the first time I saw Welcome Skateboards deck in person. At first, I was dubious of the shape and how it would affect my skating. Slowly but surely, more and more of my friends would turn up at the spot with a Welcome deck. Claiming that it didn’t affect their skating in a negative way at all, in fact, these decks were encouraging them t...
Hi Jason, I hope you are well, and thank you very much for answering a few questions for us! I know you have touched on this before, but what made you start Welcome skateboards? I was bummed on the current state of skateboarding. I didn’t like that so much focus was on videos and not the product that you actually skate. Wanted to recreate the feeli...
You’ve said that you only draw for yourself, and no one else. Is that still true? Is there a person/brand that could get you to draw for them at all? Mostly true, I do have some higher standards now on what I will release. In terms of drawing for others, any band I am into I will draw for free of charge if I have the bandwidth and as for brands, if...
You said in a Jenkem interview that you don’t think humans have yet tapped into our ‘full potential power, mentally or physically’. Which people/companies in the skate industry do you think use the most of their potential? I think Pixar and Disney are locked into something special. I don’t really look to the skateboard industry for inspiration. As ...
When you started Welcome, in your own words, “it was the opposite of what was popular in every single way.” As it was a small company, with new untested graphics and not a single popsicle shape in sight. Did you expect to become such a staple brand in the industry, or were you intending to stay fairly underground? It started as trying to do somethi...
by Ryan. 14th February 2014. Jason Celaya, Welcome Skateboards’ self styled ‘Minister of Magic’, has sat down with The Boardr for a chat about setting up the company, his thoughts on the industry, the Welcome team and more. Click to read!
Sep 13, 2016 · September 13, 2016. Welcome Skateboards and its creator Jason Celaya, "officially" titled the Minister of Magic, has been one of most interesting stories in skateboarding in recent memory. From Welcome decks’ distinctive shapes to the pastel colors mixed with occult imagery on their decks and apparel, Welcome has been firmly doing whatever ...
Jan 18, 2016 · AN INSIDE LOOK AT WELCOME SKATEBOARDS. If you told me several years ago that Welcome Skateboards was going to be a successful board brand in 2016 I would have laughed at you. With graphics that look like they were taken out of a goth’s highschool notebook, a team of kids that were virtually unknown, and decks that come in all kinds of random ...
