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Nutcase Helmets, of Portland Oregon, are multi-purpose cycle, skateboard, inline and scooter helmets aimed at providing unique designs and creative alternatives in the cycle and skate helmet market. Launched in the spring of 2005, Nutcase is sold throughout the United States in Sporting Goods and Outdoor Specialty stores. Their designs are original, unique and very imaginative. The objective of Nutcase helmets is to combine highly visual graphics with multi-purpose helmet designs that are popular among bicycle, skateboard, scooter and in-line skate enthusiasts.

"We recognized a gap in the marketplace for cycle and skate helmets, where they were either solid black or a licensed character. There was nothing 'cool' from a graphics standpoint for youth and adults," said Michael Morrow, the creator and founder of Nutcase Helmets. "We made Nutcase helmets for ourselves, our kids and our friends. The response has been tremendous."

Morrow, older brother of Rob Morrow of Morrow Snowboards fame, is a graphic designer in Portland, Oregon. The X-Nike Creative Director, World renowned for his passion for the design of Sport, Morrow came up with the idea for highly visual and expressive helmets in the fall of 2000, when he attended the Civil War football game between Oregon and Oregon State in a modified Oregon State multi-sport helmet. Morrow super-glued 4" screws onto the top of the orange and black helmet, and then twisted yellow rubber duckies onto the screws, symbolizing the impending doom of the rival Oregon Ducks.