Francis Bitonti creates 3D-printed shoes using cellular automation. Lou Moria uses vacuum forming to create recyclable shoes in seconds. United Nude's Float shoes are created on a desktop 3D printer. Footwear brand United Nude has designed a shoe that can be 3D-printed at home on a compact desktop machine (+ slideshow).
United Nude – the brand behind the 3D-printed shoes used in Iris van Herpen's fashion shows – worked with tech company 3D Systems to create shoes that could be built on a Cube 3D Printer. The faceted printed element in the design forms a platform sole and upper for the shoe, which is small enough to be printed at home rather than on a full-size or industrial machine. Hand-cut rubber toe and heal supports attach to this central element. "We designed the shoe in three parts that just simply link into each other, forming the final product," said United Nude founder Rem D Koolhaas. "The fact that the shoe is made out of three parts actually adds to the design. " Koolhaas claims that the shoes can be worn and walked in, but he admits that they might not be as comfortable as conventional footwear. Fondue Slippers by Satsuki Ohata mould to the shape of your foot. These PVC shoes by Japanese designer Satsuki Ohata could mould to feet like a second skin, using a process similar to dipping food in melted cheese (+ slideshow).
Satsuki Ohata designed the Fondue Slippers to give a user the feeling of walking around barefoot. Currently at prototype stage, the shoes are created using a foot mould. The moulds are dipped in liquid PVC before being placed in an oven to harden between 200 and 300 degrees celsius. Ohata is working on a self-dipping kit that would allow users to create their own shoes and is experimenting with different materials that are safer to use at home .
The shoes would be created in a similar way by dipping feet in a type of semi-solid liquid, allowing the material to mould precisely to the shape of the foot. "I named it Fondue Slipper because the production process is similar to dipping things in melted cheese," Satsuki Ohata said. Nicole Goymann and Christoph John create shoes from silkworm cocoons. Threads of silk fine enough to be mistaken for strands of hair form the upper of these shoes by German designers Nicole Goymann and Christoph John.
Nicole Goymann and Christoph John wound wet silk threads around a shoe last and used natural silk glue to hold them together as they dried, creating different styles of upper for ladies' footwear. The designers' Léi Zǔ Shoe Collection was named after the Chinese empress who is attributed with inventing the silk reel. Goymann and John sourced silkworm cocoons from the area around Hangzhou, China – where they both live – then spun the silk on a wooden reel using an ancient technique. "The cocoons are purchased from local silkworm farmers around Hangzhou," John told Dezeen. "We then reel the silk by ourselves in the traditional manner with the silk reel – a tool that was invented in China around 2000BC and is still used today.
" "The cocoons are softened in boiling water to liquidise the silk glue," explained Goymann. Les chaussures folles de Kobi Levi ! Ashiato – Des tongs pour les enfants qui laissent des empreintes de chat et autres animaux ! Ashiato – Des tongs pour les enfants qui laissent des empreintes de chat et autres animaux !
Les tongs Ashiato pour les enfants, imaginées par la marque japonaise kiko+, ont la particularité de laisser derrière elles des empreintes de chats, de singes, ou encore de dinosaure dans le sable ! Shoe Bakery – Les chaussures les plus appétissantes… Shoe Bakery – Les chaussures les plus appétissantes… Une série de chaussures appétissantes imaginées par Shoe Bakery, nées de la rencontre improbable entre le monde de la patisserie et l’univers du design de chaussure… Non, malheureusement ces chaussures ne sont pas comestibles…
12 shoes for 12 lovers – Amour, Mode et Design… Laissez des traces d’animaux derrière vous avec ces étranges paires de chaussures… Le projet « Outliers » de l’artiste canadien Maskull Lasserre, qui a imaginé une série d’étranges paires de chaussures permettant de transformer vos traces de pas en empreintes d’animaux, comme le cerf, le lapin ou encore l’ours… Une façon étonnante de laisser des traces d’animaux derrière vous lors de vos déambulations urbaines… Un projet qui rappelle forcément les tongs avec des empreintes de chat et autres animaux.
3D-printed shoes that represent 12 of Sebastian Errazuriz's lovers. Design Miami 2013: artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz used twelve of his former flames as the inspiration for these 3D-printed shoes, presented at a pop-up shop that opened to coincide with Design Miami.
"I had been interested for years in creating a project that could revisit the relationships and women that had been so important at another time," Errazuriz told Dezeen. "Like anyone else I have always found it quite incredible that when it comes to romantic relationships over the years, different people will represent a vital role in our lives even though later we might never see many of them again. " In 12 Shoes for 12 Lovers, each of the high-heeled shoes is designed for a woman Errazuriz previously had a relationship with, some of which lasted years and others just one night. "The idea was to try and review those past sexual and romantic relationships from a distance of time," said Errazuriz. The green G.I. Grace K handbags and So K sandals by Kartell. Italian plastic brand Kartell has released its first accessories collection of translucent bags with shoes to match (+ slideshow).
Better known as a furniture producer, Kartell has collaborated with designer Giorgiana Zappieri of fashion brand .normaluisa to create the range of plastic accessories. Grace K drawstring handbags are made from translucent plastic with gold-coloured chain straps, named after actress Grace Kelly. The bags come in black, coral, cream and gold, as well as a pair of two-toned variants including dove-grey and peach, plus bone and dove-grey. Kartell's first range of So K flat sandals with ankle straps is available in colours that match the handbags. Natural Selection shoe collection by Liz Ciokajlo. Footwear designer Liz Ciokajlo used natural fibres from coconut husks and flax to create this shoe collection (+ slideshow).
Liz Ciokajlo mixed fibrous materials with bio-resin to set each shoe in a continuous piece. "In the women's footwear world the materials are usually just leather or synthetics, so these other natural materials give a softer approach that is more feminine," the designer said. After experiments mixing a selection of fibres in various densities with bio-resin, she created firm but flexible materials to mould into shoes. "By concentrating the fibres and adding binders, the properties and characteristics could change, producing both soft and hard material over one continuous surface," said Ciokajlo. Cubify launches 3D printed shoes you can print overnight.
News: designer Janne Kyttanen has created a range of 3D-printed shoes for women that can be made at home overnight to be worn the next day.
Kyttanen, creative director at printing giant 3D Systems, has created four different styles of wedge shoes that can be made using 3D Systems' CubeX printer. Consumers can download the free digital files for the shoes, select the size they require and print them in a colour of their choice. The project is intended to attract new audiences to 3D printing, which has tended to be dominated by products aimed at men. Camper Together New York by Nendo. Over a thousand ghostly white shoes protrude from the walls of this New York store for shoe brand Camper, designed by Japanese studio Nendo (+ slideshow).
Nendo arranged the shoes in a regimented pattern across every wall, intended to look like they are "walking on air". Each identical shoe is a replica of the Camper Pelota, the brand's most iconic footwear collection, and is made from white resin. "When designing such a big space you have to face the challenge of how to use the upper half of the walls to display the shoes in areas with such high ceilings," says Nendo. "Our new approach involves making models of the Pelotas shoes and decorating the walls with them to fill the space and create the feel of an orderly stockroom. " There are a handful of openings at the base of the walls for displaying the current collections, which can easily be spotted due to their stand-out colours.
Pure shoes by Jean Nouvel for Ruco Line. Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled a pair of leather and rubber boots for Italian shoe brand Ruco Line at the Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design exhibition in Milan this week. Jean Nouvel's Pure footwear for Ruco Line reduces the concept of a shoe to its purest form, according to the architect. The boots have chunky rubber soles and calf leather uppers with a stretchy Lycra lining inside. The name of the design is printed in abbreviated form – NVL PR 13 – on the top of the boot alongside a serial number, making each pair unique.
They come in white, black, fluorescent yellow and fuchsia and are sold in translucent plastic bags. The footwear is on show at the University of Milan as part of the Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design exhibition, which runs until 21 April, as well as elsewhere across the city, including at Nouvel's huge installation of future office environments at SaloneUfficio.