One of the characteristic seen among shoe customizers is more often then not they have multiple creative outlets. One of those customizers who this past year has widened his product offering has been Jake of JBF Customs. Known for his decon-recon shoe customization skills, Jake puts them to work on your run of the mill…[Read More]
Have you wished you could take some sort of class on how to customize shoes with hands on help from a veteran shoe customizer? Now is your chance this October 22nd to 23rd in Los Angeles, California with customizer Jacob Patterson of JacobPattersonArt.com. Taking place at the ThinkTank Gallery this two day event will include…[Read More]
Remember the uproar that people had against the Jumpman logo taking place of the Nike Air logo on the backs of Air Jordans III, IV, V, and VI? Years later Jordan Brand has continued to separate their branding from the Swoosh any way possible. What do you do if you love the nostalgic look of…[Read More]
Looking for great advice in regards to coming up with your custom shoe designs? Watch this video with Los Angeles, California based shoe customizer Jacob Patterson about his “Allegro and Livid” Nike Dunks inspired by Fast and Furious movies and the modded car scene. These shoes were a customer order Jacob had full creative freedom…[Read More]
The sense of accomplishment after an idea comes to fruition is always a great feeling, even more so when others truly appreciate the finished product themselves. That feeling was probably shared by Lupe Fiasco with his latest album titled LASERS and how budding shoe customizer Th3rtyse7n felt after finishing and showing off this pair of…[Read More]
Hybrids are the Frankensteins or mutants of the shoe world and these custom Nike Air Max Lebron 8 V/2 “Monster Mash” custom shoes by emmanueLabor are of the ultimate Nike Air Max combination. These were inspired by the the mouthpiece with fangs worn by Lebron and the Monster Air Max 95 made with 4 separate…[Read More]
So did you buy the JGoods Sneaker Customization Kit and still needed a bit of guidance? Or maybe you’ve thought of buying the kit and needed to see it put to use first? Well either way you probably won’t be able to customize as good as JGoods himself right away but this video he put…[Read More]
The most important part for a durable painted custom shoe is prepping the leather. If you skip prepping, the leather is not fully able to absorb the paint. No prep and your left with a paint job that is more susceptible to scuffs, cracking, rubbing off and looking like crap after just one wear. But…[Read More]
Today was the 1st “Colour Remix: Sneaker Customizing 101″ workshop with SBTG for Vitamin Water. Taking place in Singapore at the Vitamin Water Pop-up store at ION Orchard Mark Ong aka SBTG instructed 12 participants on the basics of sneaker customizing in a 3 hour session. The group was broken into partners who each worked…[Read More]
Dorothy from Wizard of Oz meets Lady Gaga. Lauren Tennenbaum of (IN)DECOROUS TASTE was asked by a woman at Nike to create some sort of Nike sneaker slash heel platform hybrid, I’d say she delivered. Given a sample lot of about 5 Nike running shoes Lauren picked the all red pair and gave them a…[Read More]
