ID Motorsport Design

Design Renderings

It's always best to have a good idea of what you are going to do before you start doing it.From paint to major body modifications a design rendering gives you a great idea of how your final project is going to turn out. It's never too early to take this step, whether it's just an idea in your head or already cut to pieces in the shop.

Grills and Trim

Great looking "fake" grills, trim and emblems for your race car without the phony overworked airbrush look. Professionally illustrated and printed on high quality 2 mil vinyl with or without laminate. Emblems and other trim can also be done. Looks great on the race car or even on your garage wall! Anything custom can also be created to fill that grill space. These models and many others available or we can create whatever you need.

Camaro Alternative

Here is some body styling based on Cynergy Composites new Camaro Pro Mod body. I have a client wishing to see some Firebird alternatives.........hopefully we get to build one now!

Kenny Lang

Here is a recent paint scheme design by Stu Wotypka for Kenny Lang Motorsports and NitroMoose. This design was as usual done digitally and to scale and then full size templates were used to lay out the colors for masking on the car. Kenny being a painter did all the work himself.

Congratulations to Kenny and crew as they won the IHRA Spring Nationals this past weekend in Rockingham, North Carolina. Good to see the Canadian Moose making tracks way down south!

Thanks to Bruce Biegler and Drag Race Canada for the awesome photographs.

Ten Years

Although I have been at this since I was old enough to pick up a pencil, it has been ten years since I started using the ID logo. Here is a look at an ID Motorsport Design t-shirt that is in the works. Lots more to come this year with lots of cool stuff on the go here right now......stay tuned!

Best of the season!

A long overdue update just in time to wish everyone a happy holiday season and all the best in 2008...........make it a safe one!

Get your MOOSE on!

Well we are deep into the 2007 race season already and it promises to be another exciting year for Canadian drag racers. Whether you're watching, wrenching or steering, any true die hard has gotta be sporting the moose. So make sure you check into Nitro Moose and check out with some fine looking Moose apparel. I mean c'mon........ if John Force is wearing it, it's gotta be cool!

Wayne Watson Excavating (Dubya Dubya Diggin')

Here's a recently completed job for a local excavating company. When Wayne Watson of Wayne Watson Excavating bought this new Volvo VHD last year we just had to come up with something for it. From the factory the truck was nice but terribly plain and the available graphics from Volvo were brutal to say the least as is the case with most factory offerings. This truck is now one of a kind and should turn a few heads. I think the price of gravel just went up though.

Time Machine?

Diversity is key for mental success I believe. So when I am not immersed in race cars, street cars, concrete pumpers, trailers and whatever else happens around here...... motorcycles are a good distraction.

Here's a cool ratted out V-Rod I am working on. Kind of ...old meets new... meets old again. Sounds like I have created a time machine but as they say, "we're months away from crackin' that nut!" Check out the V-Rat!

Life imitating Art

Last year I did a re design of the famous Mopar Direct Connection logo. What started out as a joke for a friend with a chevy powered mopar race car, now seems to be more truthful than initially planned. Although ID Motorsport Design is not usually a source for press, I couldn't see past the irony of this. Check out the full story here.

Not Always Cars

What's almost as cool as cars? Big trucks of course! In between motorsport projects ID does custom design for Putzmeister America out of Sturtevant, Wisconsin. Putzmeister America specializes in concrete and material placing equipment. Most of the work for them is concrete pumper graphic design. Everything is designed and laid out to scale here and then production and installation takes place in the Wisconsin plant. Thanks to them, there are examples of my work all over North America including Alaska and Hawaii.

Just another sample of the accuracy and detail of digital design from ID Motorsport Design! Stay tuned for more concrete pumpers in the future.

Happy Holidays!

Here's to a happy holiday season and all of the best in the new year! Be safe everyone...

Specialty Signage

I got my start years ago in design in the sign industry. Although I soon decided it was not the kind of thing I wanted to do full time, I still enjoy designing and producing specialty signage.

After designing the logo for the Iron Garage we talked about some unique signage for their showroom. As a dealer of fine musclecars and hot rods, they wanted something slick and shiny so I came up with this design. The sign itself is 7 feet wide by 4 feet high. I started by having the large black background water jet cut out of 1/4" aluminum. I then had it powder coated black and then routered the edge making the raw aluminum edge all the way around. The sign is mounted to the wall on a frame that stands off 6 inches from the wall. The large black plate is bolted to the frame and all of the mounting hardware is hidden behind the shiny "swooshes" in the logo which are separate peices of water jet cut, polished 1/4" aluminum. The remainder of the sign is done in printed vinyl.

The result, a three dimensional depiction of the logo that appears to be floating in front of the wall. A great backdrop for the hot rods of the Iron Garage. If you're in the market for some fine "Iron", be sure to check out the Iron Garage. You can also witness some ID Motorsport Design web design there as well.

Canadian Drag Racing

When Bruce Biegler from Drag Race Canada approached me about designing a logo for his new apparel line I said "no problem". When he said he wanted me to create a "fast moose", I laughed. Somehow the idea of making a moose appear to be nitro fueled initially seemed unattainable. But we worked through it and this is where we ended up. The moose has been received very well and now is available on a variety of apparel items and is showing up on race cars all over Canada. The photos below show the moose on Scott Wildgust's 57 Chevy Pro Mod and Daniel Mercier's nitro injected dragster. Show your Canadian drag racing pride and go to NitroMoose for your very own moose. Make sure you check out the gallery at NitroMoose to see where else the moose is showing up!

And Back to the Track Again

Back in May of this year I posted what was the final rendering of Joe Delehay's 68 Camaro Pro Mod. The car was in for paint in July and at the last minute we made some changes to show more of the blue. As the photos show it was a good decision and once again Steve Dekinga of SD Enterprises made me look good. When designing a paint scheme the painter can either make or break the design. Steve never disappoints and this time went above and beyond. The stripes and side features of the car are rendered to look like polished concrete as Joe is in the concrete business. There are some flames in the blue as well giving this paint job many layers. Congratulations to Joe and team for winning the WCPMA championship and good luck with the wicked new Camaro!