About: MadMyk
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- Madmyk is Michael Stuart David, age 49. Mike is a Captain with Surrey Fire Rescue in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Mike started in the fire services in 1977 as a volunteer firefighter in the neighboring city of Delta, B.C. In 1983 Mike, along with 9 other recruits started with the Surrey Fire Department, just outside Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mike has always enjoyed working in the fire service. The firefighters are a dedicated bunch, at the fire station and off duty. They all care about what they do and about the people they protect. They go above and beyond the call of duty every shift. All of which, influence Mike’s artwork.
Mike has carved soapstone for over 25 years. Creating mostly bears, whales, birds of prey. All wildlife Mike grew up with on the banks of the Fraser River. Many of his carvings have been for awards, retirements and trophies. Look in any fire station around the Greater Vancouver area and you’ll see Mike’s carvings in the trophy cases.
Growing up, Mike always had a pencil or marker in his hand and drawing cartoons. With the advent of home PC’s Mike was able to learn computer design and started creating dozens of Logos, posters, Fire Dept patches, T-Shirts and other fire department related artwork. Woodcarving is his latest passtime. Carvings of firefighters, Motorcycle Logos and a few of the IAFF-MG Logos have been created in maple.
He has designed dozens of T-Shirts, shoulder patches; apparatus door decals, belt buckles, pins, posters and his proudest work, Surrey Firefighter’s union badge.
Not tying him down to one medium, Mike has created other artworks for the fire service. He has designed and built dozens of desktop model towns for training. Also fleets of model fire apparatus that are used with the towns.
He has spent many years creating videos for the SFD. His latest project has seen him framing and hanging photos of, the men, apparatus and the history of his department in numerous stations across the city.
So, if you need a logo or carving for your fire department or motorcycle club, you’ve come to the right web site!
These days Mike spends a lot of time riding with buddies Tom and Ron through the beautiful landscape of British Columbia and Washington State. Mike has just finished designing the new logo and colors for the newly formed IAFF Motorcycle Group.
The International Association of Firefighters launched the new club in Las Vegas this June. Tom and Ron were with Mike at the Inaugural Ride where the new colors were unveiled. The unveiling was followed by the ride around the Vegas area. They put on almost 1000 miles in 2 days
These colors will be worn by every member of the IAFF Motorcycle Group in the US and Canada and with the number of members now up to around 1700, it seems there will be a lot more.
So we hope you have fun riding around the site. If you need and work done creating logos, need a carving for retirement, awards etc, or you just want to say hi, give us an e-mail on the ‘Contact Madmyk’ page.
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