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SUM 

Performance Running Shoe Designed for Circularity.

Idea

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Insight

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"Can you really run in a molded shoe?"

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Torin

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Brand

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Ideation

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The segmentation of the shoe's parts and the idea of the "flow state" that runners experience led to the inspiration for the shoes from flowing parametric forms that convey speed. 

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Physical Model

Final Design

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SHROUD

  • TPU Woven Fiber

  • Provides Lockdown

  • Reflective Branding

SHELL

  • Molded TPU

  • Holes Channel Air Over Foot

  • Dimpled Surface Helps Air Pass Over the Shoe

  • Topographic Tread Pattern Alludes to Connection to Environment

DROP-IN MIDSOLE

  • Molded TPU

  • 20 HA Durometer 

  • 7mm Drop 

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Endless colorway combinations with the possibility of mixing and matching across multiple pairs 

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QR code can be scanned to print a shipping label or track shoe history from person to person.

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Prototype

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