Berlinwood's Spandau Series turns Timo's home district into deck graphics

A Berlinwood graphic series named for Spandau, the district in Berlin's west. Blackriver TV's description sets the premise in three lines: "Early sessions. Endless missions through Spandau. Everyday surroundings turned into creative playgrounds." The series is credited as inspired by the places that shaped Timo's riding and designed by Sassu, and the brand says it is available now at Blackriver.

That is the whole of what has been stated publicly. The video description does not list how many graphics are in the series, which mold or shape they sit on, what widths are offered, what the layup is, or what any of it costs. Berlinwood's own listings are the place those answers will appear; at the time of writing they are not in the launch material.

The launch clip is on YouTube, posted by Blackriver TV. It sits at 641 views and no comments as of writing — a quiet rollout by the standards of a brand that usually lets a series announce itself.

Most deck series are keyed to a rider, a logo or a trick. This one is keyed to a place, and that changes what the artwork has to do. A pro graphic can be a portrait and a wordmark. A district graphic has to carry recognizable detail — the shape of a wall, the color of a specific piece of street furniture, the particular ugliness of a curb someone spent years riding — or it collapses into generic city scribble. Handing that job to a single illustrator rather than a house template is the decision worth watching here, and it is the one Blackriver chose to put in the description.

There is a nice, slightly cruel logic to a spot-map graphic on a fingerboard deck. Bottom graphics wear from slides and grinds; ride the series the way the video's premise suggests it was made to be ridden, on ledges and edges, and Sassu's drawing of Spandau gets scraped off by the ledges in front of you. Series graphics that live in a display case stay perfect. Ones that get used become the thing they depict.

The framing also puts an ordinary district on a deck instead of a landmark. Fingerboard spot hunting at home scale is exactly that: kitchen table edges, window sills, a step outside a shop. A series built from a rider's everyday surroundings is closer to how most people actually find spots than any plaza-hero graphic.

• Series: Berlinwood Spandau Series
• Artwork: designed by Sassu, inspired by the places that shaped Timo's riding
• Announced: September 1, 2026, via Blackriver TV on YouTube
• Availability: available now at Blackriver, per the brand
• Not confirmed: number of decks, shapes, widths, construction and price. The brand hasn't published them in the launch material.

Berlinwood decks turn up regularly on the Kingpin marketplace, so the Spandau graphics will likely show up there secondhand once the first run has been ridden — though nothing from this series has been listed as of writing.