Paint Shop Apparel is an online apparel company providing painters, automotive refinishers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts with apparel to show your love of the automotive painting culture.

I have always been into muscle cars and motorcycles but didn’t start doing custom paint as a hobby and a side hustle until around 2010. I never worked in a body shop and didn’t have any experience and since I had a full-time job, I didn’t have time to go to school for automotive refinishing. I had a ton of books and videos on custom painting but the one book that really showed me everything I needed to have the confidence to start painting was Advanced Custom Painting Techniques by Jon Kosmoski, the legendary painter and founder of House of Kolor.

Fast forward 12 years later to 2022 and I established Adam’s Custom Shop, LLC to sell custom painted motorcycle tins and wall art. I paid a company to design my company logo and I was satisfied with it but wasn’t really blown away and thought I could probably do better. I purchased a subscription for Adobe Illustrator and started watching every video I could find on YouTube on how to create a logo.

Traveling down the multiple rabbit holes in YouTube, I found a lot of How-To logo design videos using Adobe Illustrator for t-shirt and apparel designs. I figured, “yeah, that’s a good idea, I can design my company logo and make a few shirts for myself too.” Well, that escalated very quickly and now I own a clothing brand, Paint Shop Apparel.

I work out of the country for most of the year, so I don’t get a lot of time at home to do custom paint. In my off time while working overseas I tried to find a way to stay connected to it so I am excited to have the opportunity to design apparel for everyone in the automotive and custom paint culture.