Custom Nike Terminator - Carbonator
Customizer/Designer C2 is back!! After taking a break for about 4months to handle some other business and take a vacation C2 put together his first pair of custom sneakers for 2009. Using a pair of Nike Terminator shoes as a base C2 laid out a design which he has had in mind for awhile now inspired by the New Balance 670 (UKRB). The Terminators which C2 dubs ‘Carbonator’ has a red and black colorway and has been completely revamped. Covering majority of the sneaker is red carbon fiber while black leather was used on the toe box and frontal. C2 also stitched in a nice nylon tongue to finish up the design.
Make sure you hit the jump to check out more detailed pictures of these lovely custom Nike Terminators. If you happen to wear a size 10, or just wanna scoop em up to collect em there is 1 pair available for sale on the C2 Customs Website.
Custom Air Force Ones for Marcus Jordan
A good friend of Marcus Jordan, the son of NBA legend Michael Jordan scoped out the design group Diversitile to get a pair of custom sneakers to present to Marcus as a gift. The base of choice for the customs was the classic Nike Air Force Ones.
Diversitile designed the Air Force Ones using a bronze, purple and black colorway with a basketball court pattern texture on the back panel of the shoe. The toe box features a patient leather effect with a pattern displayed under it. There are details on shoe including the Air Jordan Jumpman logo on the back with his signature and “# 5? on the other shoe in bronze also. The sneakers were then thrown into a clear sneaker box. The basketball court design Diversitile included on the heel of the Air Force Ones is definatly cool and the fading Nike Swoosh is another nice touch.
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Custom Nike Air Force One - Digg
When Matt Van Horn of Digg (the world’s largest social news website) decided he wanted a pair of Digg inspired custom sneakers there was only 1 artist who came to mind, Sole Brother. Sole Brother, who also happens to be a Digg user, was thrilled when Matt Van Horn and the Digg teamed reached out to him for the Digg Air Force One project, which involved a total of 6 customs in the end. 5 for the Digg staff and 1 for Sole Brother himself.
The Air Force Ones start off with a Digg inspired colorway including white, blue, green and yellow which wrap up into a simple yet eye catching design on the heel. The real eye catcher though comes to life at night or when entering a dark room. Sole Brother covered the mid-panel and toe box in a glow-in-the-dark ‘Digg’ pattern which glows blue. Matt, Kevin Rose (the founder of Digg), and CEO Jay Adelson were all loving the Digg Nike Air Force One custom sneakers and Kevin and Jay personally signed the pair belonging to Sole Brother.
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Custom New Balance 574 - Tsunami
In honor of the lives lost during the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake sneaker customizer Briezrs designed these custom New Balance 574 sneakers known as Tsunami. The sneakers include a red, white, black and grey colorway with ‘wave’ like graphics in black and grey around the toe and ankle. The nicely matched colorway and the subtle graphics make for an overall nice look for the New Balance 574 shoes and the fact its a dedication piece for a terrible situation which happened 4 years ago and took the lives of innocent people i gotta show my respect. Briezrs always does a nice job with his custom sneakers, the designs are always unique, such as his Pixelation Puma he did awhile back.
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Custom Nike Air Force One - LA Lakers / Kobe Bryant
Van, the designer of the Barack Obama Air Force Ones is back with a brand new Los Angeles Lakers AF1. A client contact Van simply for an LA Lakers inspired design, giving Van creative control over the design for the most part. Instead of just a simple gold, white and purple colorway which one may come to expect from a Lakers inspired design, Van designed the Air Force Ones around the Lakers NBA Championships.
The custom Air Force Ones Van designed include a white, black and purple colorway on the upper with ‘The Finals’ written across the frontal in script. The rear panels of the shoes show Kobe Bryant with the Larry O’ Brien Trophy, one image shows him kissing it as he holds it and another one shows his big smile with the trophy next to him. Besides the sneakers themselves Van also designed a custom sneaker box to go along with that, made up to look like the LA Lakers Championship Ring.
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Custom Supra Skytops - Zip It Up
Getting away from your usual custom Nike Dunks and Air Force Ones lets take a look at these custom Supra Skytops. Red0004 from ISS is the man responsible for these customs which originally started life as a pair of all white Skytops. Red0004 completely reconstructed the upper of the Skytop taking it right off and stitching on black perforated leather and teal (looks more like blue) suede. The suede and perforated look alone is pretty nice as is but Red0004 decided to bump things up another notch and added in some gold zippers on the mid-panel which match up nice with the gold lace eyelets around the ankle. The addition of the gold zippers on the upper give the Supra Skytops an interesting look and add just enough to go beyond the “basic custom” feel without being to much over the top.
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