VOL.ONE 2025 / 2026 GRAPHICS BY OWEN TOZER
The VOLUME ONE board, our flagship all-mountain deck, was our first shape and the board that started it all. It will always be at the heart of our range and is a firm favourite with Island riders everywhere.
As with all the boards in the Island range, graphics are very important, and we’re lucky to have some great like-minded artists as part of our extended family to work with. After the epic job he did defining the VOL.ONE boards’ look with his previous design that ran from 2023-2025, there was no choice for the re-design other than Owen Tozer.
Tozer’s work on the previous VOL.ONE range was such a success that it was a no-brainer to ask him to re-create the magic again. We asked him to come up with a new design, but also something that followed on from and connected to the look and aesthetic of the board he’d created previously.
The brief, if you like, was to come up with that most elusive thing: the difficult second album that doesn’t retread the same path but takes the successful core ideas and goes further...the VOL.11 splitboard, quite literally, takes the concept one further, but more of that later…
Using his skills as a photographer, designer, and artist, Tozer went to work.
The base of the new graphic is a photo just like the last one. While that was technically an x-ray of his skull after an old riding injury in the Alps, the new one was shot on his visit to Japan in 2020.
The original background photo (seen above) was shot with a low shutter speed from our car as we drove in heavy snow through the woods from Island co-owner Owain’s house to Hirafu for a nighter session to test the first VOL.ONE boards with the Dragon Lodge crew.
Adding some colour casts across the original image added a cosmic, psychedelic look which complemented the feeling of motion, like launching into hyperspace, of the image and perfectly represented the feeling of riding the VOL.ONE
Like the previous design, we used a single image as the background across the four board sizes in the line, ensuring each size had a unique slice of the artwork. Tozer then transitioned to analogue, creating an individual look for each size across the range. He hand-drew a different illustration for the four board lengths, each with a slightly different meaning, as well as the Ouroboros icon, the serpent eating it's own tail,on each, which all loosely linking to a theme of sustainability, the cycles of life, death, renewal, and the beauty in everything.
Not one to do things by half, and enthused by the project, Tozer also created a custom alphabet and numbers for this year’s range. These are used for the VOL:ONE (and VOL:ELV splitboard) logos and all written elements.
The final stages of design involved working on the layout and placement of the illustrations, graphic hits, and written elements on each size. This ensured that the graphic worked individually for each board as well as in a series, and that the final colour filters were perfectly represented on the die-sublimated top sheets.
We’re all super pleased with the final work and excited to get them pressed and out into the world for you to ride.
The new Vol:1 2025 is available now direct from Island, see the full lineup info and prices on the VOL:ONE online page here, and from some select core snowboard shops worldwide.
Hit us up to buy, for more information, or to let us know your thoughts: email contact@island-snowboards.com
