Episode 21 - Tim Baron

Tim Baron is an artist, illustrator, and skateboarder who resides in Indiana. He’s designed skateboards for companies like Tony Hawk, The Property Brothers, Birdhouse Skateboards, Plan B, Creature, H-Street, and Super 8 Skateboards. Tim designed a board for Tony Hawk that was released in the Spring of 2021 and sold out. One year later, Tim was asked to design the official “Hawk Vs. Wolf” podcast board for Tony Hawk and Jason Ellis which also sold out.Tim has designed several ReAction figures for SUPER7. His turn-around drawings and color ways were used to create such figures as They Live, Lost Boys, Anthrax, King Diamond, and Rancid. Tim also did the card art for the Phantom Star Killer “Red Baron Banshee” edition figure.In late 2022, Super7 released action figures of Tim’s “Astro Zombie” character as part of their ReAction figure toyline. The discovery of skateboarding and its accompanying subculture initiated the next phase of Tim‘s creative development. Within the pages of Thrasher magazine, Tim discovered the legendary Bones Brigade, the art of VC Johnson and Jim Phillips, the frantic scratchings of Pushead, and punk rock bands like the Misfits.