DEPENDING ON your level of artistic inclination and exposure to the beloved permanent marker known as the Sharpie, you may posses a heavily bonded relationship (through your youth) with the marker, where backpacks were decorated and bus seats and bus walls were branded with your own personal alias’ hand style. Or perhaps, more mundanely, desks and notebooks of your’s were doodled upon ad infinitum with the beloved pen. Sharpie may have even helped you to remember injured teammates on your equipment or commemorated the moment a friend fell asleep in a drunken stupor and became the vehicle for the kind of “human art” that is necessitated by such moments.

One thing is for sure, if your youth is connected to anything remotely similar to a “Sharpie moment,” where the marker became the expressive device for you and your friends, then a mysterious Lamborghini Gallardo decorated by what must’ve been one hundred Sharpies (and most likely twice that number in man hours of work), that was then clear-coated to protect a yet identified artist’s handiwork, will impress you to no end.

There is not much information available on the inked-out “Lambo” that recently appeared on the Complex Magazine blog and the symbolism (if any) of the work that adorns its body, other than it is connected to Prestige Imports. What is more than likely a conversation piece for some discerning auto collector looking for an even more unique touch or a demo item for Prestige, is now tops on my list of unnecessarily expensive cool items.

The artwork, on one of the world’s most sought after supercar models, Lamborghini’s most produced model to date, is representative of a cultural aesthetic seen in the body art movement that has diffused to the larger realm of graphic design. Its stark, contrasting monochrome imagery melange is evocative of Nike lasered shoes from 2003-present, that were first seen on artist series projects and later the Jordan XX.

For more of the Sharpie decorated Gallardo [Here]