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What makes the performance shoes... performance? Where is the border line between functional sport shoes and the lifestyle ones? Who says ballet shoes are not performance shoes?
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I'm constantly impressed with Nike ability to challenge the status quo in footwear. Almost every two years we have a new innovation... this time FlyKnit. Fantastic video, great concept.
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 ISPO outdoor fair in Munich, one of my favorites. Mostly functional products, not to much fashion and lot to see. For some strange reason designers are not very welcome ;)
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Andreas Gursky is the highest-priced photographer alive. I'm not sure if his photographs are worth the money but what I really like is this type of perspective. For example, this particular photo above makes me think that sport shoes are very "kitschy" objects and frankly speaking they are all the same. It was enough to zoom out to make me think this way. There is one more question that pops up in my mind when I look at this picture - why are we doing all this shoes?
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It's been a while since we had a year like this. There were so many great products lunched in 2011 and I have to admit a lot of the hotness was coming from US running brands. Brooks Pure collection is a great example. Minimalistic, outstanding and well designed.
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Big news found on Los Angeles Times page. Reebok is to pay $25 million to the owners of Easy Tone shoes as part of the agreement with Federal Trade Commission. The company is prohibited from making health
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Nike innovation studio, a very secret video ;) The truth is - pressing, not stitching is the future of shoe-making. At lest for the performance shoes. I like the idea with the overlapping colors.
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Good link to share today. Fantastic free online trail magazine (only in German) - trailmagazin.de. Lots of inspiring photos like the one above (by martin paldan) and wide tests of trail footwear. Print version should be out end of September.
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New Balance has recently came with new minimalistic range of shoes called - MINIMUS. There is a road shoe, lifestyle shoe and the trail one. First two are not so good but the off-road one is truly outstanding. I had a chance to test this model and no doubt it is one of the best fitting running shoes on the market.
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I took these photos during my last development trip in Portugal and it was probably one of the best trips I had. It is so unusual these days to work on shoe revisions in Europe - only 3 hours flight, highly skilled people and beautiful location.
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I must admit NIKE has presented couple important innovations over last few seasons. Starting from Lunar foam, through flywire up to the new level of seamless upper constructions. Especially the last one seems quite revolutionary because it effects not only the look but the way shoes are produced as well.
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The 3rd generation of the adiSTAR RIDE was my last model designed at adidas and probably the most "sophisticated" in terms of design of all my running shoes. The final design was born with the big contribution from Ben, a category designer. My true mentor who showed me how to design running shoes.
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This idea could actually work... heel - forefoot transition might be an issue but it's still good conceptual design.
The rest of the videos are pretty funny too, take a look here.
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