for my homies...

Hey y'all, here are just some sketches that I've found on Coroflot the past couple years that I really liked...I was just hoping this could save you some time trying to figure things out. A thing to remember is that footwear designers really tend to stylize their drawings and focus on the lateral (outside) part of the foot, so this isn't necessarily what Raphael is looking for. They also straight up trace lasts and photos of shoes on a regular basis to give continuity to their concepts. I like it anyhow.

The big names to check out on Coroflot are Michael DiTullo and Richard Kuchinsky, they do really great work and they have a ton of footwear experience. Daniel Simon Taylor is a young gun with a really nice clean style that's very organic and flowy at the same time. All these guys have some more detailed sketch renders and stuff up on Core, as well as some photographs of the finished product, so I totally recommend checking out their full sets. Examining and copying their work has been way helpful to me, and I hope it will be helpful to you as well.

The legendary Michael DiTullo of Converse and Nike, known as "yo" on Core...








Richard Kutchinsky (my fave...his stuff is pretty point in general, but I think that's why I dig it...)


Daniel Simon Taylor. Hot.

David Whetstone. Cool stuff.

Good luck dudes!

You can call him Duke, or Twink if you're feeling saucy...

Meet Archduke Tiberius Twinkimuffin! He's my new best friend.


My roommate rocks...who else goes to Walgreens for a fan and comes back with a little buddy? Zach, that's who!

So you should check out his portfolio... zadaha.com



This reminds me again of how badly I suck at taking photographs...they came out way yellow and only the stuff in the background is in focus (e.g. Ross). I need to learn how to use a camera...

Shit is stressful yo'. School is too hard...

Calling all volleyball players...

Any advice on how to make a great volleyball shoe? Does anyone have any insight or know anyone who might?

Would be hugely helpful to me...

P.S. I have an interview with Nike tomorrow, which is really exciting :) 9:00, bright and early...the only thing is, I've been sick off and on all week and my voice is coming out as a squeak between hacking coughs right now. Having plenty of hot tea with lemon, hopefully I can sound a little better. I'm not holding out hope for a job, but any time I get a chance to talk to Nike I get really excited that that's even an option for me.

P.P.S. Congratulations to my brother for landing a sick design gig in Florida! I know his wife is stoked about the warm climate...

P.P.P.S. Can you tell I'm in a much better mood than earlier this week?

some junk i scanned in between classes...

Just so I felt like I had done something with the 10 minutes I had to spare...I feel like an idiot for posting them, but maybe posting stupid doodles will be good for me. Maybe if I do it enough I won't feel the need to give a 10 minute disclaimer about how much I suck every time. Maybe if I get it all out of my system here, I can learn to feign confidence, or at least get sick of taking the time to talk myself down.

I draw a lot of eyeballs. And girls trying to look foxy and aloof. And squirrels.





Bullocks.

Anyway, this week has been a bit rough. All-nighters early in the week fuck me up, especially when they mess with my immune system. I've been pretty sick since Monday, which ups the crankiness and all around grossness quotient. I would like a clean start to this week.

I just want to read a book...

lollipops and gumdrops

Oh geez...as if my designs didn't already scream like a 10 year old girl redecorating her bedroom, blogger seems to think they'd look better in bright blue. I'll try to repost them later - in the right colors.

Off to another all nighter! Thanks for all the homework guys...

dude

knitted electrical wires.



by kwangho lee . via moco loco

great and pretty ok things

Stayed up a little too late last night doing...stuff. Now I'm a little sleepy and can't draw, so I'm spending my morning looking at pictures.

Let's start with great things...like milk bottle sculptures!


And candy sculptures!


And sweet chalk bike trails! Holy crap!

What a great thing...

Now, on to some pretty good stuff. Pretty ok seems a little harsh, it's really quite good, excellent even. I rescind my previous statement.


Knitted chairs are really cool...I'm thinking very seriously about knitting my cushions on my chair. Good because I know how to knit, and I like to knit, and I like knitted things. The trifecta of knitting goodness.

Also - need to learn how to melt plastic. In a cool manner. Alla Tertium non Data or the milk bottle sculpture. Maybe even those little plastic things that go around 6 pack cans and bottle and kill birds and turtles. OR plastic bags...although the plastic bags seem to be getting a little played. It's all about being trendy in your eco-friendliness, really. Hah...I just think plastic bags get a sort of strange amount of attention...not that I don't know plastic bags are incredibly wasteful and all that jazz, I use cloth bags, but it seems like that's the new go-to cause, and maybe there are some more deserving things. I think maybe it's more economically friendly than eco friendly. I don't think too many people are losing sleep about plastic bags companies going out of business so the stores are happy to get behind it, but other disposable things just make these companies way too much money. Stores are fine with having us buy something that they gave away for free. The company is all like "yeah, go ahead with your piddly little cloth bags, I'm gonna eat you, nom, nom, nom..."

Clearly I've lost my train of thought. Stop.

sitting apparati

some chairs...not super stoked on any of them, going to refine my concepts next...

the bottom 4 are the final directions i'm thinking...i'm drawing some more variations on a theme.

portfolio!

Here's my HP sponsored studio project and the cover page for my adidas stuff...i'll post a link when it's ready...

still needs work, but it will always need work.

workin it

Been trying to get this shizz done so I can relax when I go back to Dayton this weekend, but we all know that's not going to happen...

So, check the new adidas layout. My new professor brought me down hard today (in a totally nice way), and made me question my ability to judge something objectively. The vibe was that I made everything just look waaaaay worse. I tweaked it a little, who knows...


Heeeeeeyy.....nevermind. Not posting them now. Blogger says no, and when blogger says no i listen. Check out my coroflot for now, if interested. Which you most certainly are not. Oh well...

Reason #9827 why I am not an economist

Just hanging out in Econ101. DAAP tells me I have to take this class and so far I have learned from my new professor that money can buy happiness (otherwise known as utility - already using my new vocabulary) and also gives a person worth (all millionaires clearly deserve everything they have). Don't worry, he didn't forget to kick off the class with some jock bullshit homophobic sexist comments. Good times, good times...

Anyway, new quarter, good intentions...aside from the annoying guy getting paid to talk in front of me and the other annoying guy who is paying to talk in front of me, I feel like I'm off to a good start. Got a new MacBookPro, which supports that money does indeed buy happiness. Also a new professor who I hope will kick my ass in a good way, and a new freelance gig. Now I just need to start the co-op job search and we're potentially good to go.

New quote: "You can't be as happy with less stuff." Thanks for that nugget of genius, professor.

Chair quarter. Check it:


I have a few plans, but I really looooove these chairs. I want to build a nice homey nest to curl up and read in, but I'm going to have to control my arts and crafts urges.

"Lord, they're paying my to stand up and talk, this is ridiculous." Too true, too true. We did just watch a really funny youtube video though, he just redeemed himself a little for now.

Wait, nope, didn't last long - now he's on to forcing his conservative politics down our throats. Doesn't taste very good.

Peace out.