Hasta La Ideas

For those who can’t ever have too many shoes, these 16 modular components combine to make 256 different pairs. 

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The MyShell256 shoes by graduate designer Sharon Golan are each assembled from four parts, strapped to the wearer’s foot with silicon bands.

The rigid thermoplastic pieces move independently as the foot flexes with no connecting bridge between the heel and ball of the foot, much like Julian Hakes’ Mojito Shoe.

Golan developed the range while studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem – see more work by the academy’s graduates here.

She plans to develop a range or jewellery and bags using the same concept.

Check out all the weird and wonderful shoes on Dezeen here.

Here are some more details from Sharon Golan:

‏My shoe collection originated from a minimalistic design concept, which at the same time allows for great variety.

‏The inspiration came from the terrestrial crust, which is shaped by internal pressure and stress- it cracks, swells, moves,
and responds to any changes, in the same way as the foot.
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My set of shoes combines basic shapes, different techniques with industrial materials.
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16 modular units are inspired by four models – parts of fruit peel, egg, earth, and shell.
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These units are can be assembled using silicon-rubber bands, resulting in 256 different shaped shoes.

‏The project is accompanied by an interactive internet site (coming soon), showing the entire set of shoes.

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Invisible Shoe by Andreia Chaves	Footwear by Victoria Spruce	Lolice shoes by Belma Arnautović

Upcoming éS video shows Skateboarder Bobby Worrest giving his new pro model shoe a proper beating

If a skate shoe can’t stand up to the pavement, it’s not a skate shoe. To prove the durability of Bobby Worrest’s latest pro model, The Edgar, éS will release a new full video showing how Worrest himself abused the shoes. The “Man vs. Shoe” battle spanned nine consecutive months of skating to “ensure that the shoes bearing his name were ones he thoroughly tested himself, the old fashioned way.” Eschewing the trend of investing millions in labs to test skateboarding products, éS brings it back to the basics with this wear test.

Leaving Worrest’s skating mainly to the imagination, the teaser builds hype around the upcoming full video and includes an effective time-lapse of the shoe’s wear pattern. Look to éS next Monday, 15 August 2011, to watch Worrest’s skateboard wizardry versus his freshly-designed shoe.

Pick up your own Edgars (available in blue, maroon, grey and black) through éS, starting around $60 a pop.

These shoes by Dutch footwear designer Marloes ten Bhömer are pressed from three pieces of leather.

Called Pressedleathershoe, they’re made by soaking the leather in water then pressing it in a two-part mould.

The three pieces are then trimmed and assembled round a solid core.

The project was commissioned by design showcase Formula Fashion and will be on show at the University of Northampton from 22 August as part of a touring exhibition – more dates below.

Marloes ten Bhömer also designed a 3D-printed shoe that can be individually made to fit perfectly. See all our stories about shoes here.

The information below is from Marloes ten Bhömer:

Pressedleathershoe

Pressedleathershoe is made using a leather processing technique in which leather is soaked in water and pressed in between a two-part mould, forming it into a three-dimensional shape.

The leather parts are then dried, cut and assembled into one shoe, embedding the structure that gives the shoe it’s strength.

Blackpressedleathershoe is made from three preformed leather parts.

The project is a commissioned by Formula Fashion and on display are material tests, mould parts, vacuum formed design tests and the final shoe.

Materials: leather and plastics

Formula Fashion is part of Igniting Ambition, a Cultural Olympiad programme in the East Midlands. Formula Fashion is showcasing new commissioned works inspired by a fusion of motorsport, art, leatherwork and cutting edge design. Other exhibitors: Kei Ito, Aasen Stephenson, Genevieve Bennett and Jo Cope.

Formula Fashion:

Silverstone Circuit, 8 June 2011 – 9 June 2011
Silverstone Circuit, 8 July 2011 – 9 July 2011
Silverstone Circuit, 22 July 2011 – 24 July 2011
The University of Northampton, 22 August – 5 September 2011
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, 8 September – 21 September 2011
The National Centre for Craft & Design Sleaford, 24 September – 6 November 2011

Partners: Silverstone Holdings Ltd, Northamptonshire County Council, South Northamptonshire Council, Northamptonshire Enterprise Limited, University of Northampton (incorporating the School of Arts), Design Factory.

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Footwear by Victoria Spruce	Rapidprototypedshoe by Marloes ten Bhömer	Mojito shoe by Julian Hakes