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Flying Eyeball on a stand · the Von Dutch motif

NEU

winged eyeball · yellow-green wings · black round base

Item no. 050-682-000

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A winged eyeball on a black round base: blue iris, red veins, and two yellow-green wings sweeping back. The Flying Eyeball — the best-known emblem of kustom kulture.

Where the motif comes from

It was invented by Kenneth Howard, better known as Von Dutch — pinstriper, mechanic and loner from California who from the fifties on striped motorcycle tanks and hot rods by hand. He put the flying eye on them as a signature. He claimed the motif went back to ancient Egyptian and Macedonian models; that is not documented, and he probably made it up. It became the emblem of a whole scene regardless, and remains so.

About this piece

Not a sticker and not a print but a free-standing figure: the eyeball is modelled and painted, the wings fitted as separate parts. The black base keeps it steady. On a shelf or a dashboard it works better than flat on a wall.