One Block Down and Vans' new collaborative project - Featuring a limited edition hand-decorated Vans Slip-On

For its latest project, One Block Down explored Vans' impact on the history of skateboarding. Entitled "Dog Days," the project celebrates the California brand's checkerboard slip-on, a ubiquitous icon of the skate scene since the 1970s, when skateboarding became hyper-popular along with the entire world of California surfers who, after a severe drought hit the region, snuck into suburban backyards to practice their tricks in drained swimming pools. As the discipline spread, Vans became part of the skateboarders' uniform - and especially those decorated with the checkerboard pattern, which grew out of the way young skateboarders colored their white sneakers with marker.