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Shoe designer Tracey Neuls and product designer Tord Boontje have teamed up to design a range of shoes featuring autumn leaves.

Made of laser-cut and etched leather, the designs include a court shoe that looks as though fallen leaves have blown around the edge, a lace-up with red oak leaves hanging down below the laces and a brown etched pair with delicate patterns of leaves and acorns.

The limited collection will be available at Selfridges department store from August 27 – September 16, taking in the London Design Festival period.

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Here’s some more information from Tracey Neuls:

Tracey Neuls and Tord Boontje footwear collaboration for London’s biggest design week of the year – exclusively for Selfridges.

The meeting between Tracey Neuls and Tord Boontje was one of those moments when the world felt very small despite one being Canadian and the other one Dutch. They found their approach to design to be uniquely similar despite Tracey being a footwear designer and Tord being a product designer.

Previously in 2010, their like-mindedness resulted in a special edition shoe where Tracey used a printed fabric of Tord’s – normally seen on furniture. This playful approach to design has brought them back together in 2012 celebrating… Squirrels! As it turns out, both Tracey and Tord have a great liking for these inquisitive, clever, little town and country creatures. Known for inventive laser cutting, Tord uses this iconic critter and its autumnal surroundings to play with print and leather cut-aways. Chosen from the spectrum of Neuls’ designs; both a sculptural heeled pump and her classic rubber soled derby have been manipulated by Boontje. Neon red, turquoise blue, black and natural will be the available colours.

When Tracey moulds her footwear shapes, she begins with plasticine; the smell and feel reminding her of being a child.

“Emotion plays a big part in design. The shoe should at first be beautiful, but it is more the long lasting feeling that I am interested in. Like a pet, the attachment to your footwear should grow stronger with time. ” – Tracey Neuls

Tord’s work draws from a belief that modernism does not mean minimalism, that contemporary does not forsake tradition, and that technology does not abandon people and senses. He often takes inspiration from nature and employs a décor of forms to entice the observer’s imagination.

“I like my pieces to tell stories, or at least provide a beginning and you can make up your own narrative” – Tord Boontje

Together these two designers have created footwear where time is suspended and there are no rules of play. The shoes are like unique collectors items and this limited edition collection is available exclusively at Selfridges from August 27 – September 16, 2012.

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These wooden shoes by London-based footwear designer Cat Potter clamp around the wearer’s feet and fasten with a metal hinge.

The Pernilla shoes are moulded in the shape of feet on the inside while taking an abstract and blocky form on the outside.

Potter used computer technology to produce the shoes using 3-axis CNC milling machines. Three different types of wood have been used – walnut, sapele and pear.

The collection was inspired by the wooden sculptures of Australian artist Ricky Swallow.

Potter presented the shoes as her final MA collection at Cordwainer’s, the footwear and accessories school within the London College of Fashion.

We previously featured a collection of hand-carved wooden shoes made for sports brand K-Swiss.

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Photographs are by Alejandro Cavallo.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Pernilla. Appropriating industrial design and manufacturing processes to bespoke shoemaking.

Cat Potter’s MA final collection of bespoke footwear, Pernilla, steps out of the traditional footwear context, blurring the lines between footwear and artefact.

Grounded in a unique interpretation of architecture and the wooden sculptures of Australian artist Ricky Swallow, the collection is based on complex CadCam work and a labour intensive fabrication process using 3-axis milling machines.

The result being a series of sophisticated and elegant sculptural forms made from different types of wood (Walnut, Sapele and Pear) that trace the silhouette form of the foot on the inside, diffusing its profile on the outside.

The collection has won the Jimmy Choo MA Final Collection Award for Excellence 2012 from the Cordwainer’s Guild and was runner up for the MA Design Award for Best Collection in 2012 from the London College of Fashion.

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Dezeen Wire: Thai shoe brand Rayfish says animal rights activists have broken into its stingray breeding facility, two months after its claims to have developed bio-engineered stingray skin for making customised trainers were met with outrage and and scepticism (+ movie).

The first movie shows a video statement from the company’s CEO Raymond Ong, in which he asks consumers to question the provenance of their belongings, while the second was apparently posted on Youtube by the activists.

Rayfish announced in June that it had pioneered a process of “bio-customisation” that allowed customers to design patterns to be grown on genetically modified stingrays – read reactions to the claims in our earlier story.

Here’s the release from Rayfish:

Animal Rights Activists Break into Rayfish Footwear Headquarters, Steal Dozens of Stingrays

CEO Raymond Ong promises that company will return “stronger than ever” after setback

This Sunday, August 12, activists broke into the headquarters of Rayfish Footwear, destroying lab equipment and sneakers, and stealing numerous living stingrays. A video on YouTube depicts masked activists removing stingrays from the Rayfish aquaculture facility and releasing the animals into the nearby ocean.

In a video statement, CEO Raymond Ong expressed deep regret over the loss: “Not only is this crime a terrible setback for my company and employees, it is also a personal tragedy.” Ong acknowledged the conflicted public response to Rayfish’s bio-customization technique, but emphasized the company’s commitment to excellent working conditions for its staff and to the humane treatment of its stingrays. “Rest assured that I fully understand that radical technological advances often make us uneasy,” Ong said, adding, “We need to get over our unwillingness to change. We need to learn love the future again.” Ong also noted his concern that the genetically modified stingrays may interbreed with wild populations.

Rayfish Footwear is currently working with local authorities to identify the culprits. A reward of 40,000 THB has been offered to area fishermen for the return of any of the released rays. Despite the damage, Rayfish officials anticipate that the October date for commercial production should be pushed back by no more than two months. The company is suspending its Grow Your Sneaker design contest until further notice, although the online contest page will remain open for entries.

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Movie: Nike Flywire cables that tighten on impact are built into these shoes specifically designed by Nike for running the 1500m track event, as described by the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti in the last movie of our Nike+ House of Innovation series commissioned by Nike.

The cables in the Nike Zoom Victory Elite work like a seatbelt: they are loose when the wearer runs straight and the support isn’t needed but become rigid to provide extra support as the runner changes angle round the corners of the track. The base is made of carbon fibre layers, with the rigid middle part of the shoe comprising five layers and the front, where more flexibility is needed, comprising three layers.

Lotti spoke to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about Nike’s latest innovations for the London 2012 Olympics in front of an audience at the event we hosted at Selfridges last night – read highlights from the talk here including the importance of psychology when designing for sports.

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