“A few years ago I commissioned Don to do a custom airbrush job on my new helmet for the 2009 IMSA racing season. My request, which I thought was a near impossible task, was to recreate the 1973 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album cover of H.R. Giger’s “monochromatic biomechanical industrial mechanism with a human skull, Brain Salad Surgery”. H.R. Giger, the concept artist of the creature “Alien” created this cover art for the 1973 release [...]
Helmet I painted featured on cover of NSX Magazine Helmet I custom painted for Bob made the cover of NSX Driver magazine. “Don Johnson is an incredible artist! Great client contact and working relationship taking your ideas and then coming up with an amazing design based upon the client’s thoughts and concepts. But it doesn’t end there – – – he takes the design and then creates a helmet that captures the attention of [...]
Sparky races karts in the UK and it was a pleasure working with him. “We are both very happy with the helmet. We will keep spreading the word and for sure, if you need a reference, feel free to use either one of us! Thanks again for all the hard work. Hopefully we can get a few more drivers your way! Martha Augustine” Arai helmet custom painted
Andrew and the helmet I painted for him. “Hi Don, Wanted you to know that your helmet is a big hit. I’m spending the week at a single seat racing school and at least five people have asked me who did my helmet. I gave out your name of course. Great admiration all around. Take care, Andrew” Andrew helmet and race car
Phil McSherry and the helmet I painted for him.” Hey Don, sorry I never responded after getting the helmet. Needless to say I love it! Here are a couple pics from our first weekend this season. Two thirds in our cars debut weekend and I must say the helmet looks beautiful! We weren’t able to have our normal podium celebration due to weather but here’s one after post race tech and an action shot. [...]
“Hey Don, Just received the helmet today. It is TRULY AMAZING! Thanks for everything. I will have you paint all my racing helmets in the future, and I will spread the word around in my racing community. Thanks Alan” Best Regards, Alan Bell helmet Alan T 1
“I had the pleasure to work with Don on two road racing helmets, one for myself as a competitive SCCA road racer and a 2nd as a gift for a friend who does track days. Both very unique concepts and themes, both far from ordinary! Don went “Above and Beyond” in the creative design process, understanding what the theme was and coming up with ideas to make it happen. He even did research in [...]
Gabriel Glusman was one of three people to win a chance to race in the Indy Car Race of Champions 2017 and I was honored to work with him on a his helmet.Time frame on this helmet design, painting was very short but we got it done in time for the race. The Bell race helmet he sent me I came up with a design Gabriel really liked and was pretty sharp. Blue, yellow, [...]
Thru the entire process from design to layout, painting I keep my clients updated via e-mails and text messages. So no matter where in the world they live clients are directly involved in the design and custom painting process. After I receive a helmet and taking into consideration the conversations I have had with clients about what they are looking for in the race helmet design, colors I render a design and send them a [...]
The Simpson race helmet I designed and painted for Bob Ondrovie made the cover of the magazine NSX Driver. Bob races a Acura and wanted and American flag design on his helmet. Working together with Bob on the design I put together a helmet design that lived up to what he had envisioned. I'm very proud of the finished helmet and honored the helmet made the cover of the magazine. Magazine cover featuring one [...]
