Footwear Design
- Footwear Design
adidas, Keen, Thirty Two, and Chrome - Right out of school I had a brief stint doing footwear design. I started out at adidas at their U.S. headquarters in Portland, OR working in the Outdoor and Running categories. After about a year and a half, I broke off and worked as a freelance designer executing designs for Keen and Thirty Two snowboarding boots. I also worked with Rofu Design on launching a footwear brand of retro skateboarding sneakers. The brand never took off and the designs I did ended up getting rolled into Chrome's first line of shoes, many of which can still be seen in their Pedal Series. Here's some of the work I did below.
A quick sketch overlay design refinement of the Defiant road runner.
The Daroga is a light, packable shoe that you'd throw into your backpack during an trekking expedition. Once you've reached base camp and it's time to remove the hikers, the Daroga becomes your go-to loafer for lounging around the camp fire. Turns out, it makes a great lifestyle shoe as well.
Sometimes taping up a sample and sketching straight on the shoe is the best way to figure out the right design. This was a multi-purpose hiking shoe I worked on while in the adidas Outdoor Group.- Outsole options for a water shoe design. I was exploring various ways of laying out water drainage venting while still providing a good gripping surface for this outdoor shoe.
- Sketch concepts for a trail running shoe for Keen. The idea was to find new ways of executing Keen's classic webbing wraps.
- This was one direction for a Tech snowboarding boot - aggressive and protective with a ratcheting band at the top.
- A different approach for a Tech snowboarding boot - emphasizing the single-cord closure system. The cord lock was inspired by the mechanics found in bike brakes.
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