Fairly recently Staple Design hooked up with Polyphony Digital top celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Gran Turismo game series. The party, dubbed Downshift 2008, brought on board Lotus and Eric Haze to celebrate. Haze detailed the process in his blog recently:

Last month I was blessed with the opportunity to customize a brand new
Lotus “Exige” as part of a multimedia event called “Downshift 2008″,
which was organized by Jeff Staple to help celebrate the 10th Anniversary
of the Sony / Playstation video game “Gran Turismo”…

Though I have created other custom cars and motorcycles before,
in the past I have always approached them as more of a designer
and art director, working closely with factory sponsored paint + body shops,
who then produced the final artwork according to my specs…
This time I chose to approach the challenge in a much more hands on way,
simply working with a brush and paint to achieve a more organic result
when viewed in person, also in keeping with the freestyle and minimalist
approaches I have been taking with a lot of my work these days in general…

It’s more than a little nerve racking walking up to a brand new $60K sportscar
with a brush and black paint and straight just going for it…
( especially using “1 Shot”, the quick drying and very unforgiving
old school pinstripers enamel that was best suited for the job )
and considering I didn’t even get my hands on prepping the car
until the saturday before a thursday night grand opening,
it was do or die from the time I thinned down the first can of paint…
no magic tricks, no smoke and mirrors, no safety net.

5 very focussed days later I was putting the final strokes on the car….

And if you are interested, check out the eBay auction that expires shortly.

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