Martin Ander

Apart from designing skateboard graphics, Martin Ander got involved with other industries interested in his art and design in the 2000s. Since then, he has designed album covers (among others for Fever Ray which made the third place in the Best Art Vinyl award competition 2008), album art (for rapper KRS-ONE), posters (for example for Håkan Hellström and the Netflix series Stranger Things) as well as worked on different product designs, advertising campaigns and signature collaborations with, among others, clothing brand RVCA, watch brand CHPO, and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Furthermore, he has edited books such as children books about hip hop and sketch books, but also co-edited Sheraton Years – Stockholm Skateboarding 1991–1999 and a review of his own works, Ouff! Mander Selected Works.

When Martin Ander came back to Stockholm in the late 1990s after a period of moving between different cities he started to professionalize his graphic design work. As a designer of skateboard graphics, he has received major attention in the international skateboarding community when starting to design skateboard decks for the US-American company Flip Skateboards in 2012. During a period of four to five years, he designed about 150 graphics for them. He has also worked with European brands like Bellows Skateboards, Sweet Skateboards, and Sour skateboards.

It was in the Swedish capital that he started to get involved with the skateboarding scene and culture in the mid-1980s. That was when skateboarding became an influential trend in Northern Europe. As a teenager, he also experimented with graffiti and his later works draw significant inspiration from this scene. For a period from 1991 on, he participated actively in the Stockholm graffiti scene, but realized soon after that "[he] was never going to be a hard core train writer or bomber, so [he] stuck to just being in the culture, sketching, painting walls, partying, and hanging out with other writers".

Martin "Mander" Ander (born 6 April 1976) is a Swedish graphic designer, illustrator and artist known for his work in the skateboard and music industry.

Martin Ander grew up in the 1970s and 80s in a suburb of Stockholm. His mother was a journalist, while his father was a graphic designer and art director at an advertising agency.