Role
Concept · Illustration
Project type
Product design exploration · Footwear concepts
Year
2024
Context
Independent exploration of footwear design developed outside any commercial brief. Using Nike as a
reference framework, the project investigates how product identity can evolve through form, material
experimentation, and cultural cross-pollination.
Approach
The concepts reinterpret established footwear language through influences drawn from art, fashion, and
material research — including ceramic surfaces, glass, lace, Alcantara, and technical composites.
Rather than speculative proposals, the work functions as creative R&D, testing proportion,
construction logic, and emotional resonance within a globally recognisable system.
Intent
The focus is not branding or marketing, but how meaning, tactility, and structure can coexist within
product design. These studies explore how emotion, materiality, and form can redefine familiar product
archetypes.
Notes
This project traces back to early personal experiments with footwear design during my teenage years.
All concepts are presented as non-commercial, exploratory work.
A study in force and resistance — capturing the moment where energy, impact, and material collide.
An exploration of growth, decay, and renewal — where footwear becomes part of a living ecosystem rather than a static object.
Footwear as artefact — pushing ornament, texture, and excess to question the boundaries between sport, fashion, and object.
Inspired by motion and lightness — a conceptual take on footwear as an extension of the body rather than a constraint.
Performance reimagined through atmosphere — speed, precision, and technology translated into light and form.
