St!zo from A.Okay official and Gurelea arts crew, has created two more creations to his custom library customizing an Air Tech Challenge inspired from the Jugrnaut boutique in Chicago and another hello kitty inspired dunk. For those who haven’t heard of St!zo we posted his intro and work a couple months ago. St!zo customizes just about anything on any shoe so for those interested you can catch him at A.Okay Official in Chicago or hit him up on his Myspace.

For those outside of Chicago, We will be doing an update on what St!zo has cooked up in the lab.

- Wreckinkickz aka Oscar Castillo

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Myspace.com/djstizo
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A.Okay Official
Located at 3270 N. Clark Street,
Chicago, IL 60657 One Block North of Belmont Avenue

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Format and Puma are offering a great chance to win the limited edition Puma x Yo! MTV Raps that will be releasing over the next few weeks. In order to win the contest, you must design a wallpaper and whoever is chosen to be the winner will win the shoes. For more information head over to the Format website. Don’t waste any time, start designing today.

Sneaker Pimps rolled through Toronto and Ricky Thomas was asked to design a pair of kicks. What we have is a pair of Nike Air Max 90 designed primarily from the Nike shoe Box, with the insole and form inserts.

The man behind what he labels as the Kick Box, Ricky Thomas, has a background of industrial design, and loves architecture. Ricky plans on making more, with the Kick Box first in the series. As long as materials and boxes are available.

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One day in history, Purchaze had his opening in Groningen at the 1st of September. On this day, the Purchaze owners met the Leyp staff and the owners of the Porsche store in Groningen. As a reflecton of the top quality, concerning their products and their service, the Purchaze store had a Porsche Cayman S for the promo team driving around. As a service back to the Porsche crew, Purchaze created the Nike Air Max Light GT3 RS. This car is being put on the market in four colors (silver, black, green and orange) and these colorways are also retraceable in the four pairs Purchaze and Leyp created together with Porsche. Just check all the details: You will find also the Porsche-Logo on the tongue.

On the 27th of December Leyp and Purchaze presented the four pairs to the Porsche staff, who are going to wear these kicks in their maintenance (crew of the racing team). All of the Porsche members were very thrilled about their GT3 RS shoes, also because these are even rarer than the exclusive cars they make. Porsche Netherlands announced this collaboration in the newsletter.

More pictures after the jump.

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Kobe Bryant has often been compared to Michael Jordan in most aspects of his game and now customizer MACHE brings them together by adding a little bit of Kobe Bryant to the Air Jordan III. One of the most recognizable features of this pair of Air Jordan 3 is the drawings of Kobe on each of the sides of the shoes, the pictures are from when Kobe just started out and won the Slam Dunk Contest to some of his signature high flying dunks.

Even the Air Jordan Jumpman symbol on the back of the shoe has been replaced with Kobe Bryant’s logo. The shoes have been designed just for Kobe Bryant in his size 14. Via NT.

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Our good friends at Format Mag has updated their sneaker wallpaper section. Some of the wallpapers where overlooked back in 2006 and early 2007, but the three that now are found: Nike Air Max 1 Atmos, Nike Court Force Easter, and Nike Trainer Pink/Black. Additionally, 10 more wallpapers have been added. Stop by Format Mag to download.

Sneakerfiles is back at it once again with another hot wallpaper. This time around it is for the upcoming release of the Nike Air Force One Mid Charles Barkley. Select from the three different sizes according to your screen and enjoy the high resolution wallpaper. With that said enjoy and don’t pass on the Barkleys.

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Ciro grew up in Philly and had an early love for sneakers and writing graff ever since he was young. Growing up with the birth of iconic shoes we have all come to love today he had an idea for combining his love of shoes and making canvases.

After looking at the first canvas when it was done he realized how much he liked it and knew people who share the same feeling for shoes would love them as well. Limited prints of his canvases are available via Myspace at Myspace.com/limitedkix or at WTHN in Philadelphia.

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Maybe a new name but not new to the sneaker scene, is Gaby from Amsterdam. Gaby started painting sneakers around 4 months ago, and he does something unique: uses Diet Coke to mix his colors. Next month his first expo will launch where you can purchase some of his art work.

Gaby has sent us some of his art work, working with sneakers like Adidas, Nike’s and Gravis. Check out his Myspace for more details.

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Here’s the newest wallpaper created by the Sneakerfiles for the released of the Air Jordan Stealth 8 that will be released this weekend. Please save the wallpaper from below according to the size you need for your computer, simply save it and apply it to your wallpaper and it is ready to be displayed. Good luck to those who are intending to buy one of the nicer retros of this year.

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