Hacking Nike
Kicks Online has a fascinating article about a shoes 'fingerprint', or the 1 x 1 square you can find under the tongue of just about any pair of Nike shoes. I've glanced at this tag a thousand times but never…
Continue Reading →Nike Air Event in Berlin
Hypebeast has some great pictures from the History of Air Event in Berlin last night. The Nike Spirit Room in Berlin was completely rebuilt to look like a laboratory or research center. If you haven't already seen the pictures of…
Continue Reading →Nike’s Shoe Archive
NPR has a nice article and audio story about the way companies archive their old products in order to learn from past mistakes. The story highlights Nike, who even has a corporate archivist who spends her time organizing and collecting…
Continue Reading →Think Free in Colette Paris
Think Free is a sneaker project by Philipe Cuendet, and it's all about taking the Nike Free to another level. He calls his creations 'Nike hybridations.' "A Jordan 5 upgraded with elements of the Jordan 4 mounted on a Nike…
Continue Reading →Spear Edition: Nike iD Waffle Racers
I just received the 'Spear Edition Waffle Racers', I designed a few weeks ago at the 255 Elizabeth Nike iD Design Studio. They turned out really nice, slate grey with a metallic shine, grey suede, and yellow stitched highlights. They…
Continue Reading →255 Elizabeth: Nike iD Design Studio
Last week only a few hours before my flight to Paris, I had the chance to finally use my invitation to the Nike iD Design Studio, at 255 Elizabeth, which I had heard so much about. The studio was really…
Continue Reading →Blue Ribbon Sports
Way back in the early '60's, a visionary named Phil Knight started a small shoe company, which was originally called Blue Ribbon Sports. Now we know it simply as "Nike". More than 40 years later, Nike has launched a new…
Continue Reading →Nike [co]+LAB
Oil painters slash sneaker aficionado, Dave White, has a great new website. He also has a nice new collaboration with Nike Asia, which will be his first apparel product ever. The project, called [co]+LAB, will be unveiled in Hong Kong…
Continue Reading →Nike Ovolo
Freshness Mag has a nice piece (and more pictures) about the new Nike Female shoe called the "Ovolo"--which was designed by Richard Clarke. The shoe is a bit crazy, but pretty damn genius-- the heel is suspended like a hammock.…
Continue Reading →White Dunks
Although not new by any means--this is still bad ass. Show Studio has a a nice look at Harri Peccinotti's work photographing last years "White Dunk: Evolution of an Icon", an exhibition specially commissioned by 25 Japanese artists for last…
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