{"id":722,"date":"2008-04-14T06:11:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2008-04-14T07:20:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:20:33","slug":"benny-gold-in-the-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Benny Gold In The Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lv-skateboard23-054.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lv-skateboard23-054.jpg','popup','width=580,height=445,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lv-skateboard23-054-tm.jpg\" height=\"329\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lv Skateboard23 054\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we don&#8217;t really understand it, <strong>Benjamin &#8220;Benny Gold&#8221; Weiner<\/strong>, is building a design empire on his designs for Nike, Adidas, Stussy and Levis. Here he is profiled in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/04\/11\/LV4L101UVJ.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[It&#8217;s] about not losing sight of your youth,&#8221; Gold says about the derivation of his nickname. &#8220;It&#8217;s important for me to remain youthful as I grow. The reference to gold symbolizes success and achievement.&#8221;<br \/>\nGold&#8217;s big break came in 2002 when he was hired to create a logo for Huf, a string of streetwear boutiques opened by professional skateboarder Keith &#8220;Huf&#8221; Hufnagel. Shortly thereafter, he became the lead designer for Huf, creating urban-inspired sneakers and clothing in limited-editions that quickly became coveted items.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the rest of the Benny story, click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/04\/11\/LV4L101UVJ.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we don&#8217;t really understand it, Benjamin &#8220;Benny Gold&#8221; Weiner, is building a design empire on his designs for Nike, Adidas, Stussy and Levis. Here he is profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle. [It&#8217;s] about not losing sight of your youth,&#8221; Gold says about the derivation of his nickname. &#8220;It&#8217;s important for me to remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}