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Who Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Wiivv Custom Fit Sandal

Wiivv's award winning smartphone app captures customers biometric foot data and generates a biomechanically optimised sandal design. It is 3D printed in San Diego California and shipped to the customer within 14 days. Using the customers foot data, the sandal's arch support is printed unique to them, and the straps placed in custom locations. The triple density foam footbed, deep heel cup, biomechanically data driven design, no rub toe thong construction, custom strap placement and custom arch support make it the most comfortable sandal on the market, without compromising aesthetics.

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Octopus

Softness and support are contradictory. The designer realizes that a single shoe cannot achieve the strength of exercise. Shoes with multiple layers of material or hard materials are not comfortable. Inspired by the architectural structure, the designer designed a scaffolding model that combines functionality and aesthetics on a soft material basis to achieve a balance between support and softness, and decided to adopt the concept of mechanical aesthetics to enhance the futuristic look.

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Unconventional Chic

The project stemmed from a need to design shoes for real women. Focus in the design of these shoes was the application of industrial designs to create a shoe that caters to all women's body types, concentrating on women with wide feet in particular, but still reflecting a unique taste. Constructing what appears to be an architectural object, with its bronze brass, gave the designer room to play with technical details such as the small V-shape at the front, which provides a more comfortable fit.

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Walk Of Mind

Walk of mind pioneers shoe hybrid fabrication design concept and explores a new approach to shoe design accompanied with new terminology. Using an originative shoe layering Compound method that retraces the known base hierarchy of function and shape in Shoe layers. Walk of mind bridges gaps between Modern digital technology and old-world craftsmanship while weaving together Nylon 12 polymer and vegetable-tanned leather. The shoe design process begins with Personal customization by using a digital scan of a Certain foot. The design can be adjusted to any foot, depends on the scanned model.

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The Gemini Rebirth

This unique design is constructed utilizing a pointed-toe and 100mm heels to define the desired structure and allure. Embellished with care, the product uses clean-cut silhouettes and meticulous chrome closure mechanisms to translate the authenticity with which the pair can be altered with absolute ease. Meshing smooth and grainy premium leather with a technical understanding of hardware placement, The Gemini Rebirth offers flexibility to completed design outlines.

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GreenPlax

Trying to protect the ecosystem and the environment, as well as to leave beautiful mother earth for future generations, Ccilu spent 5 years developing GreenPlax technology and created the first-ever footwear collection made primarily out of plastic bottles retrieved from the oceans. The recycled plastic bottles are used for every major component in the shoes, uppers, insoles, and outsoles, turns the hazardous wastes into green material, moreover, the GeenPlax is bottomed-up with 100+ independent and resilient dots to deliver barefoot comfort.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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