Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Today we are airing one of the panel sessions that we held this past February at our inaugural

blister summit, and this is a great conversation.

We brought together for very accomplished artists and designers to discuss the intersection

of art and the ski and snowboard worlds, as well as the broader outdoor

industry. And as one of our panelists notes here in the conversation, this is a lineup of heavy

hitters in the art and design world. On the panel, we've got Yorgo Talupus, who, among many

other things, is the co-founder of Black Crow's skis.

We've got Jeff McFetridge, who has worked with brands like Patagonia and Nike,

and he was actually tapped to design artwork for the Apple Watch.

And I believe he was the first and only designer

whose art appears on the Apple Watch, which is pretty wild.

And actually, maybe even more wild than that,

Jeff is also my personal telemark coach.

And he is still claiming that he is going to come out to Crested Butte when we finally

film our telemark ski video. So I can't wait for that. Okay. The third member of our panel is

the artist John Fellows. John lives right here in Crested Butte. He actually designed our

Blister Summit logo. and you can find John's

artwork displayed all around the outdoor industry.

Finally, the fourth member of our panel today is the co-founder of Icelandic skis, Travis

Parr, who not only co-founded Icelandic, but he is responsible for Icelandic's very distinctive artwork,

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