Burubado Information

Ok, about pages are pretty boring, so I'm going to do this as corny as possible. if you read to the end I'll give you a FREE CAT This kid liked cars, but was a car kid in spirit only, he didn't have any cash to spend on his car, so instead, he hand-made stickers and played around in ms paint to see what 26" wheels looked like on a VW beetle. What started out as an innocent outlet of vehicular creativity soon grew into something more. From there, the car kid discovered Photoshop and creativity bloomed. Animated gifs were discovered as well as layers, effects and brushes. All sorts of wacky and wonderful things were possible. A v8 in a Mini, a targa top Silvia, a slammed Austin Allegro... The kid got a lame retail job, the job was enough to pay rent, but a decision had to be made whether to pay for car modifications, or registration. It was 2008 and it was looking like modified car dreams would be crushed until the kid had an idea; his car club needed some tees - he could design something in photoshop, get them made up and sell for a profit! A design was drawn up and received with much enthusiasm, it was a big process, lots of organisation and lots of legwork, but in the end, rego was paid for AND car modifications were had. **I N S P I R A T I O N** The kid got a job in design and soon discovered a program called Illustrator. Illustrator opened the kid's eyes, he fell in love with it. Although there was no use for it in the design job, car kid spent hours and hours staying back after work to learn how to use it. He drew cars from scratch and soon built a small portfolio of designs which he then uploaded to an online t-shirt store. The tees were all outsourced and he soon realised that when someone else is making your gear, you have no control over the quality. He could see that he had to take a more hands on approach. At this time, he purchased a Datsun Bluebird - Burubado in Japanese. Online, people began calling him Burubado. (Buru-Bado ... Blue-Bird - no shit mystery solved!) With an identity, a reputation ...