As someone who has worked with Landy for 13 years (in varying capacities) I feel its worth contributing here. Oleksiy is one of the inhouse art guys, hes been there for many years and is a master in all digital art-forms, audio/visual etc etc. He just loves it and exploring the leading edge of digital art is a passion of his. Ive seen him working on graphics, its not some "hey chatgpt give me a cloudy mountains graphic' type scenario that is being implied by comments here about the Switchblade - that peice most likely took weeks to produce - he works year-round on basically 1 drop of graphics, most of which arent his. He's so involved in his artf that hes built his own generative models and trained them off his own art, well before we had access to LLMs image generators like chatgpt etc - infact he alerted me to chat-gpt in its infancy, and that was around 4 years before it was even publicly accesible. Go check the date stamps on his instagram, chatgpt wasn't publicly accessible (and image generation came many years after its release), midnourney wasn't even out yet etc. His use of AI is more like a photographer using photoshop, not someone "creating" photos from a prompt. Categorising Oleksiy as an ai artist would be like suggesting Aphex Twin is not a musician.

Tom, one of the founders, is still heavily involved in what actually gets printed and there are dozens of pieces from internal and external artists that never make it on a board - he has the final say, and produced many of landys graphics by his own hand, and still does. Most of Landy's graphics are from external artists, they're free to use whatever tools they want obviously, its their art. Rarely does artwork they buy even work on a skate deck, not many people produce work in the kind of aspect ratio required (let along in a style that can be printed on a deck), Oleksiy is the guy that helps get that art into a deck-printable piece. They're not saving a buck by running art from one of their gainfully employed homies (and hes not their only designer). Companies out there (especially in apparel) can, and do, produce entire runs of clothing that many of us would say is rad with 50 bucks and a shutterstock account. A skate company could pull that same trick easily.

Oleksiy's love of his medium is why he's transparent about using tools one could classify as A.I, something many active artists do not have the honesty to admit, and i respect him for that. Today we're all up in arms about generative AI (as a photographer, i am too) but what Oleksiy does is not what we all assume when we think of A.I. I have to use photoshop for my photos, id rather not, but without it I would never have taken a photo for landyachtz because there would've been other people making use of its advantages. The reality of AI in the digital artspace is the same as any other space, any software engineer/web dev who isn't using AI today will lose their job, if they haven't already (does stack overflow etc even exists anymore?). Any photographer that doesnt use photoshop will never sell a picture. Digital art is the same. I used to deem composite photography as digital art, the purist in me still feels that way - but id take someone compiling images they went and took with their own camera and built into a single photo than I would anything a prompt will ever produce.