ID Motorsport Design

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!

From the track to your back!

Thats right......ID is everywhere! Over the next little while I am going to attempt to show a little more of the diversity that keeps me at ID Motorsport Design so busy.

Here is a t-shirt design that I recently completed for RH Racecars in Kelowna. Its a six colour print on the back of a black shirt and has the ID designed RH logo front and center on the front side of the shirt. The t-shirt features the RH built 68 Camaro Pro Mod that Trevor Lowe has been successfully piloting all over the west. For more info on how to buy one of these shirts hit Ryan up here and he will look after you.

Round and Round

Once again, something a little different going on here at ID Motorsport Design. In the past all of the race track designs have been focused on the drag strip. Well now you can see Stu Wotypka's work on the CASCAR circuit as Shaun Polack of 26racing is now sporting an ID designed wrap. Shaun's great new sponsor Thompson Brothers Construction wanted something "Caterpillar" oriented as this is their choice of equipment in the field. With Shaun's help we came up with the idea of making the car look like a D10 Cat complete with tracks, blade and ripper. The final product turned out great and was received very well on it's debut. Shaun did well too finishing tenth in the race at Sun Valley Speedway.

As they say in the world of stock cars "rubbin is racin'" so Shaun's "Cat" did not finish unscathed. There were a couple big black "donuts" on the side when all was said and done. The nice thing about the vinyl wrap here is that repairs are inexpensive and easy. A nice way to keep the racecar looking great all season long.

More Trailer Wraps

Here is another trailer wrap from last fall. I posted some of the preliminary artwork for the back door in August but never did get any final pictures of it up. Here is a photo of the side along with the final artwork for the back door. This is a 45' trailer owned by Brent Harris from Edmonton. Brent runs the '33 Willys pictured and you can keep an eye on what he has going on at www.33willys.com

There is alot of detail to this illustration as is the case on all of the wraps I do. This one is detailed right down to the threads on the bolts of the wheelie bars. So now Brent not only turns heads at the track, but on the way there and everwhere he stops along the way!