Just when the world was getting introduced to Google’s Glass now they have a custom talking adidas shoe. At SXSW 2013(if you don’t know, find out) in Austin, Texas Google has released a pair of formerly black and white Adidas Originals AR 3.0 whose stripes are decked out in Google’s signature primary + green color scheme. Namely the first part of Google’s Art, Copy, & Code program the shoes were created along with artist Zach Lieberman and interactive collective YESYESNO.
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@SDMRPodcast “RSVPs and Custom Sneaker Culture” #SDMR
The trio of sneaker industry heads that run the #SDMR podcast about Sneaker Design, Media, & Retail delved into customs and customizers for the second half of their latest cast titled: RSVPs and Custom Sneaker Culture. For this episode #13 Jacques Slade of Kustoo.com, Sneakerbox Clyde of InsidetheSneakerbox.com, and footwear designer Brett Golliff have guest Nick Engvall of ComplexSneakers on to chat about the current state of the RSPVing and camping out for sneakers while at the 31 minute mark of the show they get to the good
Nike Lebron X Wu Tang Clan Swarm by SoleKeepa Customs
Sacramento, California based customizer SoleKeepa Customs brings the legend of the Wu Tang Clan to the Nike Lebron X. What started off as the Black Diamond colorway of the Lebron 10 was given a strictly single color addition of yellow throughout. Of course any experienced artist, especially sneaker customizers know going from dark to light needed a base coat of white to start due to yellows usual level of transparency.
Nike Dunk Untit1ed by GroundBreaker Customs
How else will you accomplish a goal if you don’t push yourself out of your comfort zone? Ask Demetrius Mensah of GroundBreaker Customs and he’ll tell you. Demetrius chose to make his latest pair of customs be a challenge in another step forward to customizing a pair of kicks through the decon-recon process. As someone who has been customizing coming up on three years now he was unsatisfied with the lack creativity in his work, wanted to start commanding more respect from his sneaker customizer peers and overall just kick GB up a notch. What did he do? These Nike Dunks titled Untit1ed.
Air Jordan IV Trinidad James by DeJesus Customs
Inspiration comes from all places. For DeJesus Customs their latest custom work comes inspired by the way of eccentric rapper Trinidad James and his look from the video for his single All Gold Everything along with the work of another sneaker customizer. What started as an all white Pure Money $ AJ IV is now titled T.Jame$ 4 featuring an hand painted upper of bright red for the most part.
Batman vs The Joker Custom Painted Vans Shoes by MonsterMacDesigns
A post sharing the completed customization work from MonsterMacDesigns is long long long over due. This recently finished pair of Batman vs The Joker Vans by the customizer Jordan “MonsterMac” McMahon is cream of the crop when it comes to custom hand painted Vans sneakers. The ever so often used white canvas sneaker features a very comic book styling of the polar duo. Batman was placed on the
