Welcome To Southbound Design
Welcome to our world...
Southbound Designs is a graphic design company started by Anthony "ACE" Cox while in high school in 1999. The company was founded on a drive to help support his traveling and love of art while competing in wakeboard tournaments through out the Southern United States. He started with one simple wakeboard graphic t-shirt design, which sold very well at events. From that point the realization of his love of the water and his passion for art would mold together to create Southbound Designs. The name Southbound Designs came about from one of many long nights of traveling from a wakeboard tournament out of state back home to the Baton Rouge, LA area. No matter how many miles the next wakeboard events would be away from home, he always found his self-traveling back to South Louisiana. Many days and nights of being Southbound for home with his family to make it to class on Monday caused for the natural name of Southbound Designs.
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Listen to the Music...Our second year of being apart of the Valley of the Vapors music festival has come. We had the opportunity to work with all the great people from Low Key Arts on this years VOV print media needs. We printed promotional flyers, event posters, festival shirts, and Low Key Arts supporter shirts. VOV is a 7 day music festival with 30+ bands from all over the world that takes place here in the Spa City only blocks from our design studio downtown. Check out the event and more about Low Key Arts on the links below:
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3.18.12
Sticking it to EPIC...We have recently been working with EPIC wakeboats on designing the 2011/2012 - 21v Boat Graphics. Look for this design on the water this summer and in the video's and magazines. We are excited to be working with EPIC on many different design projects including boat graphics all the way down to print media design. Check out EPIC Wakeboats at
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4.5.11
Ink & Cotton…After working with many screen printing shops over the years we have decided to bring the screen printing process in house at our design studio and continue with the quality production we stand for in all projects we produce. This allows us to see the project from start to finish with design to printing to packaging. Contact us for details on prices and printing options. 225.610.6707 |
11.10.10
Painting at the studio…Ace took some time to video a painting session recently and had our friend speed up the real time video plus add some music to it. Check the clip out and look for more to come from Southbound's studio. |
10.5.10
Listen to the music …Southbound Design has teamed up with the crew from Big Dumb fun Show to offer the official BDFS gear. You listen to these guys on the radio and party with them around Hot Springs, so now you can be part of the show and get one of these limited prints. You can get your shirt order online at the Southbound Design store or at Crosswalks on Central Ave. this friday night Sep. 24th. Find the Big Dumb Fun Show crew on Facebook. |
9.22.10
Pump up the jams…The top podium placement at the Boomer Blast wakeboard tournament, that took place on Boomer Lake in Boomer, OK, walked away with an iKick from Kicker Audio that was covered with a wrap design from Southbound Design. This tournament was put on by the Oklahoma Wakeboard Series, which also had event shirts we at Southbound designed and printed for the July 4th event. You can find more information about OK Wake Series at www.oklahomawakeseries.com |
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6.28.10
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On the water with Ryan Dodd…We recently had the opportunity to work with Ryan Dodd and Dolphin Wetsuits on some design projects for this season. We developed Ryan Dodd's new personal logo and also carried that over to a jumpsuit design that Dolphin Wetsuits will produce for him this season. Good luck to Ryan Dodd at the 51st Masters and LA Night Jam III... |
5.20.10
Post it…With the summer time knocking on the door it's time for events all over the place. We have recently been busy with event poster for everything from music shows to boat demo days. Click on the images to the right for some of our latest poster design jobs we have done.
Some of the companies we have worked with are:
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5.10.10
Wrap it Up…We are very proud to be working with Diamond Lakes Water Sports on a few projects this summer. One of the latest works is a full boat wrap, which was designed by us at Southbound. The boat will be featured as Diamond Lakes Water Sports 2010 season demo and promotional boat. You will find this boat at all the wake events around Arkansas pulling riders. You can find out more about the Diamond Lakes crew at www.diamondlakeswatersports.com More photos can be found on our FaceBook site or WakeWorld.com |
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One of our own...Margo Clark one of Southbound's own team has now branched off to offer her skill set as a makeup artist to the public. With the launch of her new company logo she is now on the move. For your next event or makeup needs feel free to contact Margo by e-mail at MakeupRouge@gmail.com or follow her on her blog site. |
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10.20.09
Wrap It Up...We are working with All Pro Tint (Zachary, LA) on a design project for the Louisiana High Technology Crime Unit vehicle. Southbound did the design work and All Pro will be doing the print and install of this vehicle wrap. Just another example of the variety of design work we at Southbound Design can bring to the table for you and you company. |
9.9.09
8.19.09
Straight Line SportsWe just finished a project with Straight Line Sports designing the end cap graphics for one of the 2010 slalom handles to debut at Surf Expo in Orlando, FL next month. The end cap will come in three-color ways depending on the handle diameter and size. You can check out more information about Straight Line Sports and see the full line up of wakeboard and slalom lines and handles on Straight Line's website. Straight Line Sports Website |
7.27.09
Loss of a FriendThis past weekend a friend of us here at Southbound passed away after being involved in a car accident in Zachary. Kevin Langston Shimek, of San Marcos, Texas passed away at the scene of the wreck Sunday morning. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those feeling the loss of a great friend and irreplaceable personality in the water ski community. We would like to remember Kevin with a design of a helmet with wings for his passion for water ski sports and water ski jump. Please feel free to contact us for decals free of charge and carry Kevin's helmet and wings with you on your board, ski, car, or any place you can. You can find more information about the accident at the link below. Also you can click the image to copy and paste the image to your facebook or myspace page. We wish a fast and speedy recovery to our other friends, "Tomo" and Ryan "Fitzy", involved in the accident who are in ICU at Our Lady of the Lake, Baton Rouge, LA. More... |
7.11.09
SamuraiWith some new Japanese influence from our friend Kohey we are going to be running some new shirts with the word Southbound in Japanese incorporated in the design. Check them out and look for them to be out soon. |
7.4.09
LA Night Jam 2009The lights have gone off and the sun has come up and another great event under the belts of the staff at Bennett's. LA Night Jam this year proved to be bigger and better than last year. We at Southbound Design want to say thanks to everyone that put the event together and a personal thanks to the Bennett's Family for giving Southbound Design the opportunity to work for such a great event. Southbound Design covered the graphic design needs for all the print media design from VIP Badges, Event Program, Sponsorship Folders, to Event Posters. We will have more images of the print media up soon in the portfolio section.
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6.15.09
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Louisiana Spring Fling 2009We are once again working on the Louisiana Spring Fling event and getting event shirts, promotional items, and decals out the door. Southbound Design has been involved with Louisiana Spring Fling since 1999. We have been designing the official event shirts since 2006. LSF, Louisiana Spring Fling has been Louisiana's longest running wakeboard festival taking place over a span of three days in the spring. LSF will be held again in Henderson, LA in the southern swamps with gators and all on May 14-17th. Come out for the fun and hang with all the wakeboards from the Southern States. |
4.13.09
We work in the dark...Southbound has been in partner with Bennett's Waterski & Wakeboard school again working on the second year of the LA Night Jam event that will take place on June 6th, 2009. This is one of the most extreme events under the lights and on the water you will ever see in the US. Southbound has created a logo and concept for the event and covered all the print media you will be seeing in your local Baton Rouge publications. In 2008 we created a concept to "Think Darkness" and used it to shed light on the entire campaign from sponsorship packets to pizza box covers. If you would like to know more about this event please feel free to check out the website at www.LAnightjam.com |
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Services of Southbound
- Graphic Design
- Abstract Painting
- Screen Printing
- Custom Vinyl Graphics
- Logo Design
- Print Media Design
- Corporate Branding
- Marketing
- Design Consulting
- Trade Show Booth Design
- Trade Show Booth Consulting
- Trade Show Booth Management
- Retail Space Design
- Retail Space Merchandising