Mark Foster

About Mark

• Growing up, his father always told him he should be a plumber or an electrician-something "practical."
• When he protested and said he was a creative person, his dad said he'd never make a living drawing monsters.
• Following this sentiment, Mark pushed harder than ever to make a career out of exactly that.
• He didn't do very well in school; he was always preoccupied by his love of skateboarding.
• When he started looking for graphic design jobs, he found that the majority of openings were looking for someone to structure corporate documents.
• He knew he needed to be creative on his own terms, so he and a friend started screen printing their designs onto t-shirts and selling them.
• From there, he followed a natural progression into drawing designs for skateboards, thus merging his two interests.
• Once he'd made enough contacts in the field, he started Heroin Skateboards, now one of the biggest skate brands in the U.K. and Japan.