Happy Hour Skateboards is the first ever skateboarding company to collaborate with Tom of Finland Foundation.
Tom of Finland is one of the world’s most influential artists. From the late 1950s onwards he produced an impressive body of work, depicting strong, proud gay men. He played a key part in gay liberation, is a pop culture fixture, admired and collected by artists like Robert Mapplethorpe.
The collaboration began when Happy Hour Skateboards founder and owner Jarkko Poropudas met Durk Dehner, President of Tom of Finland Foundation, at Mr. Leather contest in Helsinki in August 2016.