I’ve been on a mad heat for the custom design world of the internet to meet it’s worthy bride, the Koozie, for sometime now. Much to my delight I just ran across customink this afternoon, where now all of my custom koozie ambitions can come true.

The design tools aren’t perfect, but they do allow you to make quite a few choices and you can upload your own images. Minimum runs are 105 and come in at less than $2 dollars per Koozie. The site doesn’t offer the ability to market or sell your designs like threadless or cafepress, but you can email them to friends which is cool.

By the way, my roommate has already informed me that my design is base and classless, which, I thought, was the point of a koozie. So please lovely women of the world, swallow your righteous anger knowing that I have taken heed and am already a better man.

I just came across this pretty sweet site, BoardPusher.com

BoardPusher.com allows you to design your own skateboard decks with 1 or more 4-color images and text. They provide a dozen deck sizes to choose from ranging from your underfed freestyle board to a pool board more my speed and even a pintail longboard. After that you upload your graphics, arrange them and purchase.

What’s cool is you can also sell your designs at a markup like Threadless and Cafe Press offer.

My only real complaint is that the instructions for uploading are pretty much non-existant. I figured out pretty quickly that you need to use a .jpg or .gif (no .eps, .tiff, or .psd allowed… I haven’t attempted a .png) and you’ve got to be pushing at least 300 dpi. This is not a great surprise for me as I’ve spent some time doing digital design, but could be frustrating for someone not as knowledgeable.

The boards are your typical Canadian maple 7-ply so weight and durability should not be an issue at all. And they’ve also got completes available upon request.

I also don’t see any greasy agreements giving ownership of images and designs to BoardPusher though they are understandably careful about not allowing the use of their site for copyright infringement.

I’m excited to see how this pushes the already pretty great world of deck designs. I wonder if this is where Ken Marshall had his Zombie vs. Nomz deck printed?