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Dog Hill Customs

vonsven — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:53:47 +0000

The other day took a trip to letter up the Dog Hill Customs Garage paint on this step side Chevy. Some simple lettering was added on the doors in semi flat ( to match the trucks finish) and striping in white was added to accent the two tone paint job.

Happy Mothers Day ! (in Sweden)

vonsven — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:21:28 +0000

Surfs up pinstripe demo at Elmia

vonsven — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:02:46 +0000

At the Bilsport Custom Motor show I joined Kenth from The Land Inn motel and did some live pinstriping on a nice little surfboard to match his entry in the show, his classy custom ‘63 Ford Galaxie Country Squire!

Also got to lay some lines on this very cool Shovelhead..

And a little job for the owner wild custom Oldsmobile rocket 88.

Stadius truck lettering

vonsven — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:16:26 +0000

Mystic design and color theories from 1915 by the signwriting master Frank Atkinson served as a guide on this one. So each color ended up being blended up special (plus a little extra for the passenger side )
I am not sure if the colors are exactly the way they should be but it is pleasing to the eye. The red that he called for was called Tuscan red which I checked up on and it is the color of old Pennsylvania railroad trains! kinda cool, the rest of the colors are various shades of olive green and buff.

Rockafella Sign

vonsven — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:53:21 +0000

Here is a Sign I made for the Childrens Rockabilly clothing brand Rockefella! they requested a Sign painted to look old for use at fashion conventions. The layout and design was provided for me altough I favored my own lettering over the original font.
After I painted it all up the surface was heavily distressed and then hit it with my aging varnish mixed to matte to diffuse direct lighting.
Hope all the kid rockers dig it!

Signs for Swahili Bob’s new location

vonsven — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:24:16 +0000

This is a bit dated I know but for those who haven’t heard my friends at Swahili Bob’s Tattoo and Piercing moved to their new location

Birkag. 33 11339 Stockholm

And although they where happy to bring along the original sign I made them way way back in 2005 (my first Stockholm sign job!) The new location needed more, so..

Both windows where painted with the new logo (a nice design by Papa Bear) and I also made up a Blingin’ Southside Minneapolis/Vandervaartian style Sandwich board for ‘em !

New storefront sign and new opening hours

vonsven — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:09:10 +0000

Hello!

Just wanted to let everyone know that the new opening hours will be from 12:00 – 20:00 on Thursdays

On other days If I am not in the store I will be close by painting at Motorbörsgaraget which is located close by on Arenavägen 65, across from Globen.

So if you need something from the store on a day other then Thursday, contact me by phone or mail and I can come open the store for you !

Also here is the new sign I painted on the storefront, it is inspired by Route 66 motel sign trends of the early to mid fifties. The store was painted up by our friends at Retro Måleri. The great faux stucco wall surfacing is the work of our local master of furniture and interior restoration Christian Stadius.

The texture of the wall is quite rough so I used a Squirrel & Ox mix, Mack Series 389 quill. The softness of the brown Squirrel hair carries the paint well and Ox hair is stiff and springy so you can dig into the surface.

Blackboard logo

vonsven — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:57:54 +0000

Von Sven Kustom Deluxe » Modern Studio

Link to the original site

Here is a logo I designed for Annika Lindström. Annika is a master seamstress, is a specialist in mending vintage denim and also produces her own label, Blackboard. Check out her clothing or contact her for alterations or other services via blackboardlabel.com

The logo is brushed freehand in a one stroke casual with a relief drop shadow. The colors have then been corrected for print.

Link to the original site

retro bil #2

vonsven — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:17:26 +0000

Retro Måleri now have a 2nd Volvo Duett and of course I had the job to letter to match the first!

I did the painting at my vehical painting venue motorbörsgaraget. The garage is a great place to work, being surrounded by so many classic cars and rods makes the ideal working climate!

Hot Rod High

vonsven — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:09:27 +0000

Only in Sweden…. a high school that offers a Speed Shop Class !!!!
Believe it or not under the course of a year students enrolled in the Tumba Gymnasium are able to learn how to build Hot Rods in this fully furnished metal shop.

If you would like to see the school Speed Shop, their rat rod as well as lots of hot rods and customs, the class is hosting a mini car show February 28th.. (info on the meet here)

Shop teacher and wishbones CC member Christer Vestergren asked me a while back if I could come in and demonstrate some painting techniques for his class. The task was to letter the schools logo on their latest project, a dropped rat rod pick-up!

Here are some pictures I took during my visit …

And some very nice photos from the speed shop’s assistant and photo student Kaido Kross (check more of his photos here) ..Thanks Kaito!

Belladonna nights

vonsven — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:48:26 +0000

2am fridge painting service

a new pinstriping problem

a good ol’ time.. belladonna trackers

Svetlana Logo

vonsven — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:06:14 +0000

Heres a Logo I designed and painted up for Svetlana industries, check out what they do here..

Buy for more sell for less (in progress)

vonsven — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:28:02 +0000

I am working now on lettering a roadster for motorbörs garaget over by Globen. The owner had me work from an old photo of a lettering job he saw in the states, I copied the lettering and layout as best I could from that and changed the business to his. The lettering is by the way kind strange some of the letters where done as Poster Roman and others in Plain Egyptian, got them fairly close except they did end up heavier.

I will be back over there on Friday to paint more letters shadows pinstripes and pinups! So..there will be more updates !

oh and about the car ..
Brookvill w plåtkaross, V8 396 Big Block, automat TH 400, Mana-Free insug med 4 st 2-ports Rochester förgasare, Wilwood Racing bromsar, 9″ bakaxel, SoCal stötdämpare, 5″ droppad I-beam axel, ägd i USA av Brian Setzer i StrayCats.

Retro Måleri Update

vonsven — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:29:32 +0000

My friends at retro maleri AB had me add some more lettering on their classic hand painted volvo duett

A while back with their logo on the side and back and now ordered the slogan, location, phone and large company name text along the bed panels to finish the job!

Retro is a located in Södermalm, Stockholm and offer full service in the fields of painting and wallpaper hanging. They are excellent craftsmen working with traditional methods, and take pride in there work. I had my store painted by Retro and speeking as a painter myself I could not have done better myself!

Buzzstop 28 Tattoo sign

vonsven — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:34:19 +0000

Buzzstop 28 Tattoo of Göteborg is opening a new location this Saturday here

I hand painted the sign for the new shop.

The background fade is brush blended for strength from black to custom mixed “Casino” green. I used a dark, heavy script to familiarize the buzzstop 28 lettering .

The Tattoo lettering is more to the point with a higher contrast and placed on classic arrow to draw in street traffic. This sign is painted partly in the style of American vernacular signs from the 1920’s to 1940’s.

gone fishin’ sign

vonsven — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:05:59 +0000

Akki Sushi will be closed till August 12

vonsven — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:04:44 +0000

So it’s that time of year again.. another (#4) window sign for Akki and
Vacation for the best (and smallest) Sushi Restaurant in Stockholm.

Some New Stuff

vonsven — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:29:02 +0000

Here’s some small stuff from the last few weeks..

This is Flamingo Fred’s record box, As well as being a freetime DJ Fred’s also a purveyor of fine Cocktail drink recipes. Check out his website project here (in progress)FlamingoFred’s
The text is taken from a computer font from House Industries, a nice drawn style script.

here some more text this time a casual one stroke with hobo shadowing. (For Sivletto)

Next up some of my heavy freehand? on G?ran’s rod.

Here is a small leather pocket calender custom painted for Alex?

And the Hells Bel Air, customer’s own concept..

and last a little stripe job, One of the tear drops worked great to cover up a deep scratch!

ok! thanks for lookin!

sven

Tattoo Sign update

vonsven — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:59:36 +0000

Swahilli bobs tattoo shop sign needed so sprucing up..

Phantom tattoo

vonsven — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:33:09 +0000

Here’s a sign who Tyson from infamous tattoo commissioned me to paint. This piece was a gift for the owner of his old shop in Centralia,Wa.

Tyson is here http://www.myspace.com/tysonarndt

phantom http://www.myspace.com/phantomtattoo