3D Shoes! Footloose!
By pairing data acquisition, user behavior, and rapid prototyping, the designers at Pensar wish to create footwear conforming to our individual anatomy and using biomechanics…
Shoes
Sea-Life Inspired Shoes
Take a look at the bottom of the Octopax soccer shoe and its aquatic inspiration will be immediately obvious. Like the suckers and tentacles of…
The Winner’s Rowing Shoe
Winning this year’s Plastics Industry Award for Product Design of the Year is this genius adjustable rowing shoe. Before, shoes had to be manufactured in…
Sexy Feet in Fancy Slippers!
The Aero unisex slippers collection is a cross between kitsch and uber functionality that can give your feet a new reason to smile. I love…
Just Do It, Yourself
The Creo Shoe Concept focuses on user integration by allowing the wearer to become a part of the production process. The footbeds, shoelaces, outer soles,…
Shoes of the Centipede
Flex your toes in these bad boys, I tell you soccer players all over the world. Football players! I meant to say that. The ball…
Straw Sneakers
In this project, designer HoDong Sung took on the task of redesigning a two thousand year old shoe. A shoe design, I should say, not…
Nike LunarGlide+ Review
Nike is renowned the world over for their running shoes so when the LunarGlide+ racked up award after award for product design, I got interested….
Foldable Sneakers
About 15 years ago, a fashion designer exhibited a line of clothes that folded into books. It was a new paradigm for dressing. I can’t…
Really Really Dry Pair Of Gumboots
Being a hardcore Urbanite, I don’t think I really appreciate the need for really dry shoes. Not that it doesn’t rain in my city; we…
Put the Breaks On. Gold Please.
Boot to the head. Robots, tip lamps, flower frames, slingshots, and now BMX-Style bike boots. You’d better step up your I.D. game if you’re gonna…
Zaha Hadid Created This Hot Mess
I’ll keep this straight forward. This shoe is the result from a collaboration between renowned architect Zaha Hadid and Brazilian fashion label Melissa. As with…