So many awesome things in the mail this week!
Before we settled on the name “Zen Garage” we had registered “Us vs Them” only to find out that the name was already being used in the US as an automotive/lifestyle fashion brand. It’s almost impossible to get .com domain names these days, everything is taken, most of it’s parked too which adds insult to injury.
After a quick google search it turns out Zen Garage was also taken. Len Higa from Oni motorworks, along with Giant Robot magazine had a show at the Japanese American National Museum in December last year. The show featured the SUPER FAMICOM CAR, a retro video game-inspired converted Scion xB utilizes projectors from both the front and rear to play video games. DAVID CHOE’S CUSTOM MONSTER SCION xB and SHINYA KIMURA’S SPIKE motorcycle.
Not wanting to start Zen Garage on a negative I thought I’d send Len an email, stating that we were about to launch a new business called “Zen Garage”. I suppose I was looking for his blessings? The next day I got an email from Len, who was excited, positive and more than happy to give us his blessings! The guy is a champ, he’s even sent me a Zen Garage T-Shirt (Len did the insanely awesome tyre/enso illustration), one of the remaining few left over from the show which ended last January.