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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.
“I don’t know what it is with women and shoes, but I like it,” said Kyttanen, in a press release straight out of Mad Men. “I would like it even better if my girlfriend could wear a different pair every single day. Today this is a reality. Women can print this first collection of shoes overnight and wake up every morning to a new pair.”
Each shoe takes upwards of six or seven hours to print, meaning a pair could be produced overnight, assuming two shoes could be printed simultaneously on one printer.
The digital files contain data for sizes 35 to 40 and customers can choose between the Macedonia style, which is riddled with holes, the Facet style, Leaf style and plain vanilla Classic style. Further size and customisation options will be added in future.
Kyttanen, founder of Amsterdam design studio Freedom of Creation and a pioneer of designing for 3D printers, told Dezeen last year that his goal was to create products that consumers could print at home as an alternative to going shopping. “Why go buy something when you could just make your own things?” he said.
“Janne is taking the convenience of online shopping to a whole new level,” says 3D Systems. “There is no longer a need to spend hours in department stores looking for the perfect shoes to match that party dress. And if you want to get in the fashion design game yourself Janne has created the Class Shoes as a basic file you can add your own style to.”
Kyttanen is also working on 3D printed food. “Food is the next frontier,” he told us earlier this year. “One day we will be able to 3D-print a hamburger.”
Read more about 3D printing in our Print Shift magazine.
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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.
Even though each design looks solid, the heels are hollow to reduce weight and allow air to flow up through holes in the insoles.
Wool felt lining protects the feet from the scratchy fibres used for the heels and uppers, and a couple of pairs are made entirely from this softer textile.
The felt was steamed and then moulded with gauze, a technique often used in millinery design. In some cases it was dyed to contrast with the muted colours of the natural materials.
Coconut husk mixed with latex was formed around a mould designed using computer software to create the heel and sides of one pair.
Shoes in hardened flax and sculpted hemp made in the same way also feature in the collection, along with leather elements.
We featured footwear with platform heels made from porcelain earlier this month and recently we ran a feature about shoes designed by architects such as Zaha Hadid and Oscar Niemeyer.
Photos are by Stephanie Potter Corwin.
Here’s the information sent to us by the designer:
Liz Ciokajlo is a footwear designer based in London with a background in a combination of product, furniture design and fashion accessories.
This year she finished her Masters in Fashion Footwear at London College of Fashion being the recipient of the Jimmy Choo Dato Cordwainers Award and was one of ten accessory designers in the world chosen to be a finalist in the International Talent Support Competition 2013.
The collection, called Natural Selection, aimed to objectify the shoe. The project started with the examination of how 3D printing could alter footwear architecture and identify new design constructions.
Observations were made that whilst the potential of this new technology offers many benefits the materiality was limited. There seems to be a lack of natural materials used. This lead to the critical theory 3D print is the right process but maybe using the wrong materials?
So practical research was made into the use of non-wovens as a potential material arrangement which could be developed by specialists to drive the materials used in 3D print.
A collection of varied natural non-woven materials were selected and applied to a methodology in a masters educational context. By concentrating the fibres and adding binders, the properties and characteristics could change, producing both soft and hard material over one continuous surface.
Innovative materials used in the product and furniture industries were “borrowed” and applied to fashion footwear raising further challenges as to what materials are acceptable, in a trend lead fashion context. The design form was the element unifying the collection.
As the project progressed it became evident, synthetic biology will converge with 3D print to offer solutions to these issues. A designer’s understanding of trends and emotional qualities of materials make them key to drive the new technologies in fashion and science.
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Competition: to celebrate United Nude’s tenth anniversary, Dezeen has teamed up with the footwear brand to give readers a chance to win one of five pairs of the company’s signature Möbius shoe.
Architect Rem D Koolhaas designed the Möbius shoe in 1999 while he was still at university. The form of the shoe is made from a single strip, which twists around the foot like a Möbius band to create the sole, heel, foot-bed and upper.
As he explained to Dezeen in a recent interview, he was persuaded to start his own brand to produce the shoe because it “didn’t look like anything [else] out there”.
Read our full interview with Rem D Koolhaas here »
Koolhaas launched United Nude in 2003 and the company now sells over 200,000 pairs of shoes a year.
In 2013, ten new colours and two new heel heights for the Möbius shoe were released to mark United Nude’s tenth anniversary.
We have five pairs of Möbius shoes to give away and winners will be able to choose their preferred colour, height and size.
To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Möbius shoe” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.Read our privacy policy here.
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Competition closes 20 August 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page.
Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
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