As Billy Joel sang Saturday night, “There’s no business like shoe business.” Overall I can’t say that the World Shoe Association seemed like a great show in Vegas. I think MAGIC, a week earlier, would have been a better trip. Luckily the materials show adjacent to it was eye opening. If anything, most of what [...]

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Most people don’t know that it takes more than an hour of labor to make most shoes and that they usually use lots of toxic adhesive. That’s what makes a “green and responsible shoe” a true challenge. Below is an attempt by Patagonia to present some of the benefits of globalization, while showing a [...]

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Every year I go to the ISPO, the largest sporting goods show in the world. ISPO is hosted at Messe Munchen. Being the location of the old airport, the fairgrounds are huge: 15 airplane hangers with 2 train stops. It even includes a pedestrian autobahn to get from one site to the other.

Wandering this [...]

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Design and engineering have a love/hate relationship but they certainly get along in one form: the truss. Trusses are a system of using minimal materials to create large, strong and magical things that always seem to represent both good design and engineering.
Starting with carbon to make Diamonds:

this bike from Moulton that folds yet maintains great [...]

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Today I came across a picture of myself where there was a date on the photo over my shirt, and my face had several extremely shiny spots… other than those problems the photo was pretty cute, SO like any graphic designer, I opened up photoshop to un-shine/un-date the photo. If you don’t have that photoshop [...]

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