..:: iLIKE ::..

Via The Fox is Black

Nike interviews Tinker Hatfield on the new Jordan "Trunner" And talks about the history of Jordan in the Cross Training days.

Great interview and even more amazing website!

Check it out HERE.

..:: DIG THIS ::..

Via hypebeast.

Ever fancied yourself as a sneaker designer? Here’s your chance to design your own colourways of various models from a range of sportswear brands with The Sneaker Colouring Book. Illustrated by Daniel Jarosch and Henrik Klingel, the book includes 100 different sneaker silhouettes from 18 different brands, each presented in black and white, allowing you to customise, design and create your own bangers. Each page has also been perforated, which means you got remove your artwork and display it as you wish. Look out for The Sneaker Colouring Book this May.

Source: SNEAKER FREAKER

..:: THOUGHTS? ::..

Via Hypebeast

..:: DIG THIS ::..

Leave to Nike and their creative team to remind all of us
that the print media is not dead!
I was reading through one of my magazines the other day, and found this ad for the new Lunarglide shoe that says, Hold this page up to your web cam and see this shoe in a whole new way!

Now, I am aware that this isn't the newest technology. Other people have done it. I just think its a really great use of technology, getting readers to there website.

If you haven't done it, go check it out here! Its pretty cool.

..:: LEGEND ::..

I am really hoping that everyone that reads this will know who this person is.
If not, I'm sorry.

This man is Tinker Hatfield. If you grew up in the same era as I did, you most likely wanted a pair of Air Jordans. And if you didn't, I'm sure you heard about them. In my opinion, there was no pair of shoes more desirable then the Jordan 4. Tinker Hatfield started with the design of the Jordan 3, and is still working today on Jordan and the Nike Innovation Kitchen. Which is always pumping out some of the most influential shoe designs and technologies.

Tinker Hatfield was a part of some of the most popular and influential shoes that Nike has ever produced. I remember When I was a kid, my mom wouldn't let me get the black Jordan 4's, she used to say that "people will KILL you for those shoes!" Of course that scarred the hell out of me for the duration of my youth. The thing was, that made me want them even more! Needless to say, When I became old enough, and was no longer scarred of being killed for my shoes, I went on the search. Finally after finding dozens of fakes, I found them. And now they proudly reside in a safe place, in the original box, just waiting to be worn once again.

Tinker Hatfield's contribution to the shoe world is huge, but as a designer, he has changed the way people make shoes, and the way people conceptualize the shoe design process.