Created for Don Henderson, the Senior Manager of Creative Expression at Apple Education.
While brainstorming ideas for his kicks, Don mentioned his interests: guitar, photography, sunsets, and the color orange – quite a scatter plot of starting points for designing a pair of sneakers. Nonetheless, I set out to combine as many of these elements tastefully [...]

Created for Vincent Shim, owner of Vs. Social Standard.
Ordered from an employee (Podge Thin) at Minneapolis based sneaker/streetwear/bike shop “Vs. Social Standard” (www.VsSocial.com) as a surprise birthday gift for the owner.
The Podge was looking for something that kept it simple but incorporated the things that were important to the owner – his shop and his [...]

In continuation of my last post, here is another pair for a friend I met while at the 2010 Apple Education Leadership Summit.  This customer, Kayvon Beykpour, is a 22 year old student at Stanford University.  Beykpour was featured as a fellow student learner for his story as the co-founder of TerriblyClever Design, a company [...]

As noted in an earlier post, about two months ago I took part in the 2010 Apple Education Leadership Summit. One of the other “student rock star learners” that I met, 12 year old Aaron Hill, took great interest in my work and requested a pair featuring his company’s logo and custom colors.
Hill is [...]

Big surprise – another “Air Tech Challenge” inspired C2 Customs sneaker…I know, I get it.  However, to my defense, I will say this is the first to dunk to receive the application.  In my opinion, the outcome was perfect.  This pair obviously uses the same design elements of previous Agassi customs: dual-appearance, [...]

A rare pair of women’s custom sneakers fresh out the C2 kitchen.  For those who have closely followed my work over the years, you know I am far from a stranger when it comes to elephant print.  When I first jumped into painting kicks (2003), elephant print was the standard customization staple.  An important thing [...]

A few months ago, C2 Customs adopted an intern of sorts.  Her name is Clare Jensen, and she is an up-and-coming graphic designer from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.  For one of her finals, Jensen decided to combine her interest in custom footwear with her education of the study and application of graphic [...]

By now, if you follow my work you know the deal when it comes to my renditions featuring the collaboration between Vans and The Simpsons. This is the second colorway for the Chukka, the first design was a classic pink frosting and had a bit darker base tone. This pair may be the [...]

After quite a wait, my interview with DIME Magazine finally has been printed. Lucky for me, Kobe Bryant graces to cover, hopefully leading to an increase in sales and visibility of my story. Unlike other features in the past, the author, Sol Lieberman, took a unique approach to not only laying out what [...]

So some time ago, Nike teamed up with ?uestlove, infamous drummer of Philadelphia based hip-hop band The Roots, to create a limited edition artist series Air Force One in part of the “One Love” campaign. Never having the connects or the capital to pick up a pair, I had to create my own solution. [...]