About pinstriping.dk
Pinstriping.dk is owned and operated by pinstriping artist and graphic designer Jesper Bram. The most important thing for me is that my customers will be proud to show off the work I’ve done for them. I believe that high quality work and happy customers brings more customers, and that’s how I like to run my business.
I specialize in traditional freehand pinstriping and no job is too large or too small. My favorite styles are simple 50’s pinstriping and 60’s-70’s surfer graphics.
If you have any questions about a project or anything don’t hesitate to contact me. You can find my contact information here.
Photo by www.pixeleye.de
My Background
Born in Denmark 1973. I was a typical critter as a boy, always fantasizing about motorcycles and drawing scary comic monsters rather than listening to my teachers. In my teens I got into computers which quickly led me down the path to becoming a graphic designer.
Eventually the internet caught my attention and I was probably among the first in Denmark fiddling with graphics for web pages. From the early nineties I worked in advertising doing web-design for a number of high profile companies, always pushing my limits and honing my skills. When Internet technology became more advanced I was intrigued by the new possibilities and turned my focus on to designing software interfaces rather than just corporate branding websites. In 2001 I started working as Chief Designer for a Danish software company.
Just about the same time I got my first motorcycle. Having a motorcycle reopened the world of “kustom graphics” that I had more or less forgotten in my pursuit of becoming a renowned web-designer. I started to get a few jobs in the motorcycle – and Kustom Kulture community – a t-shirt design here and there, the occasional helping out with someone’s website, rally fliers and so forth.
During 2003-2004 I made the decision that every side project I would get involved in had to have some sort of connection to the Kustom Kulture scene. Whether it was an album cover for a rock band, t-shirt design for a motorcycle club or a website for a custom car dealership didn’t matter. So far I’m glad I decided to keep that focus and I’ve been lucky to work with some pretty cool and talented people ever since.
As I dug myself deeper into the culture I became aware of the many different crafts evolved around custom cars and motorcycles. One of them was pinstriping, which instantly grabbed my attention. I’d done a few not all bad traditional paintings on canvas back in school to learn the technique, but it never really caught on. Then along comes pinstriping where although you still paint with a brush, you do it on vehicles, and some even paint weird looking comic monsters as well. Pinstriping appealed to me right away, and it didn’t take long to figure out how I could get started learning.
Since 2006 I’ve practiced pinstriping. I started out by taking classes with legendary pinstripers such as Herb Martinez and Kris “PuK” Johnson. Pinstriping have caught on and I find it a perfect diversion from my daily computer based interface design work. One of the things in pinstriping that attracts me is that it’s a traditional craft. There’s no shortcuts, no computer to automatically do it at the click of a button. The only way to master it is practicing and learning from the great practitioners that came before you. Pinstriping is not just about keeping a steady hand and pulling straight lines. It is also about seeing the contours and shapes in a vehicle and knowing how to emboss them by laying down a line in just the right tone and thickness.
Today I’m comfortable saying that I can lay down a straight line wherever needed. But you never stop improving or learning new tricks. I know pinstripers that have worked for thirty years and still talk about learning new tricks now and again. So in effort of constant improvement I continue to take pinstriping classes around the world whenever I can. Maybe one day I’ll join the ranks of the pinstriping legends.
