The third Vans Custom Culture Contest is already upon us. High school students from across America will be able to begin registering for Vans’ yearly shoe customization contest on February 1st, 2012 at Vans.com/CustomCulture. The first 1,000 schools to sign up will be sent 4 pairs of Vans all white shoes to customize by March….[Read More]
Not many customizers would be willing to give their shot at recreating by hand a geometric pattern usually seen as a machine printed fabric. If you’ve seen any of his previous work, Swaves would be one of the top customizers for a request with one of those prints such as “houndstooth.” Though recreating like a…[Read More]
Given the history of signature shoes by Dallas Cowboys players, like Deion Sanders and Emmitt Smith, you’d think there would be a good number of custom sneakers too. It seems as if Cowboys fans just might not be as big a sneaker fans as those of the Pittsburgh Steelers or Green Bay Packers. One thing…[Read More]
Ever since winning a trip to California as a finalist for the 2010 Vans Custom Culture Contest, Kjersti Faret has discovered a passion to customize shoes. Usually for herself or in the case of these Blink 182 Vans, for the occasional customer. Given complete freedom over the design Kjersti choose to use the cover art…[Read More]
So were you wondering how the Custom Culture department at Vans cut down hundreds of entries into the Shoe Customizing Contest to 50 schools? Checkout the 3rd Custom Culture Episode 3 below. Or if you’d like to hear how some of the star judges of the contest in the final round got started with their…[Read More]
The Custom Culture team over at Vans dwindled down the list of somewhere around 1000 high school entries to 50 for the 2011 Vans Custom Culture Shoe Customizing Contest. Each school is represented by 4 pairs of customized Vans created by their art students in hopes of winning a trip to New York for the…[Read More]
As if you needed any more insight on why you should sign up your high school for the 2011 Vans Custom Culture contest, Vans is putting together a video series about the entire contests process. The Vans employees working on the Custom Culture project share a bit of the contest details, their thoughts and experiences…[Read More]
Vans Custom Culture Contest 2011 is HERE. I sure know I would have done anything for a chance like this in high school. It is really crazy to think that was 7, 8, 9, 10 years ago when customizing really started an online underground movement, I began customizing myself, and now customizing shoes is literally…[Read More]
New Zealand based shoe customizer Nick Tonks of Kyozo Kicks has steadily put together a portfolio of video game themed custom shoes. Now he can add philanthropy to his resume with his recently customized Little Big Planet Vans slip ons. He auctioned them off on eBay with all proceeds going to Child’s Play, a charity…[Read More]
It would probably be fitting to just type black and yellow forty more times, right? But did you actually know the Steelers were originally named the Pirates after the city’s baseball team of the same name in 1933 but changed to the Steelers in 1940. Like their opponents in tonight’s Super Bowl the Green Bay…[Read More]
