Sorry for the criticism Yo but i saw your development samples in the flesh on my last China trip. You are developing these with the same factory i work with and a lot of well known brands produce in like Heyday, and others.
Just my opinion and i am of course a professional designer, but surely this is also a discussion topic where you can can comment, criticise or advise on peoples work. I think its a tad boring when people simply droll over peoples cads or sample photos all the time. I’ve been in the business long enough to exercise my very objective views on product and this was simply my opinion.
Yo, It’s really cool the industrial concept adapted into a casual shoe. I love the entrepreneurial spirit, and is a great achievement.
I want to do something similar in a basketball shoe. Adapting a shoe protection cap, just as industrial safety shoes. But, obviously, use a cap on the tip of the shoe, made of a flexible material and comfortable, but consistent enough to give the appearance of a hard cap, and that will give the form of a safety shoe industry to a sneaker. Also use this cap to use as an element fused to the sole, and use this to use as an intermediary to apply an adjustment with the laces in the shoe. But all this must be applied in a shoe made of certain materials (Adizero basketball).
I thought that it would be very cool adapt the cap below the upper, and that there is visually suggesting that this element is located below the same.
The fit of the shoe using the sole and support has made before, now the problem is to adapt the concept to a shoe made of certain materials.
We can manufacture a shoe like this?
Are there alternative materials outside the adizero line to manufacture a shoe like this?
The adizero uppers of the shoes have a synthetic film bonded to a synthetic mesh.
It is also an open question to the forum. If you want to answer these questions, we also can do it in my thread adizero, okay.
Thanks! Yes thats my current job, but I’m going to a new place at the beginning of march.
The office is in Borås, but I live in Gothenburg, so theres a lot of commuting.
hey all,
haven’t been around the forum much lately… too busy. glad to see this thread still kicking, so i’ll add some shameless self promotion as well.
these shoes were based on an outsole/last that was developed for trail running, but i designed these womens uppers to blur the line between performance and casual… fitting in with the womens FitnessxFashion style movement.
I believe all 4 shoes are available in 4 colors. i believe we sampled like 8 different color combos on this group, was a fun group to work with color.
Ifmemory serves me correct this was the original “sketch render” for the collection, the other 3 shoes were based off the language that was in this original design.
Hopefully you’ll be seeing these on shelves soon. Four full lines of work gloves for Ironclad. One of my last projects with Vapor Studio. Handled creative direction, concepting, and design management. Our studio also did the branding and web.