All You Need Is Roll

Designer: Charly Arias

Exhibited during: Costa Rica Design Week 2024

In collaboration with: Alliance Française & Trajectorie Studio (France)

Description (English):

All You Need Is Roll is a sculptural and typographic intervention that fuses the raw energy of skateboarding with the emotional charge of cultural memory. Cast in bold pink and shaped from the silhouette of a skateboard, the piece evokes not only the rebellious spirit of skate culture but also the softness, comfort, and nostalgia of the everyday “pan de rollo” — a humble bread roll, reimagined as symbol.

This work celebrates the poetic tension between street culture and emotional heritage, between movement and pause. Skateboarding — long transcended from sport to symbol — becomes here a metaphor for resilience: you fall, you get up, and you roll on.

By blending materials, scale, and language, Charly Arias turns the mundane into a design icon — reminding us that sometimes, all you need is to keep rolling.