Artist Series: Eagle Barber
Eagle Barber - a longtime friend of Freeman - is the Art Director and Brand Manager at Madrid Skateboards. A former resident of Seattle with a background in filmmaking and graphic design, he’s spent years combining art with passion through skateboarding, music and graphic design.

At Madrid, Eagle leads the brand’s visual direction. He’s the mind behind board graphics, apparel, and artist collabs. His style blends hand-drawn illustration with graphic precision, pulling from skate culture, tattoo tradition and West Coast iconography resulting in an aesthetic uniquely his own.

Madrid Skateboards has built skateboards in the United States since the 1970s. Based in Huntington Beach, they’re one of the last U.S. manufacturers still doing everything in-house and by hand. Madrid has maintained their focus on craft through decades of change, and this has cemented them in skate history (along with supplying Marty McFly’s board in Back to the Future).