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nike vapormax plus s trip back through the past twenty years sees its first retro entry today, as a dozen years after the list kicked off with Tinker Hatfield and Eric Avar s Air Flight Huarache , the latter applied the functional versatility of its timeless design to a new project that defied classification into the Force, Flight or Uptempo schools. ?The Nike Air Zoom Huarache 2K4 was part of Avar s quest to return to a more grounded product after nearly a decade of creating the most memorable and expressive designs the sneaker world had ever seen. ?It simultaneously served as a transition into the Kobe Bryant signature era, celebrated college hoops with the March debut and offered NIKEiD options right out of the gate.
Studying the original Nike Air Flight Huarache s innovation, insights and exoskeleton fit, plus the Air Force 1 from a classic aesthetic standpoint, the Nike Air Zoom Huarache 2K4 made a statement on its own terms, yet was rooted in earlier masterpieces. Having
nike air max 1 seen tiny swooshes, reverse swooshes and vast swooshes on recent shoes, Eric was keen to return to Nike s roots.? For the 2K4 we were doing a big, old-school quarter panel swoosh to make it loud and proud and bring that back. Check out a huge array of Air Zoom Huarache 2K4 sketches after the jump
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And more of the Nike Lunar Hyperdunk and let us know if you think it deserve its spot amongst the other hallowed silhouettes featured in this series from Nike.A lot can change in four years. As the biggest global stage for sports is set up again in a new location, it s time for the Nike Hyperdunk to make another statement. The landmark innovations of 2008? Nike Flywire and Lunarlon Technology have evolved significantly for basketball use, perfecting the formula for a breathable, responsive, durable, locked-down performance. Now, under the hood, a new technology emerges that will change the way Nike
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The BB4 s unique rocket and booster appearance proved Avar s opinion that every shoe should have one bold, iconic expression to it [and] sometimes you can get away with two, and will forever be remembered as the shoe that made Fred Weis famous (did you get the Dream Team pack retros?). ?Click through to see more of Vince Carter s Shox debut, let us know how they compare to the other milestone designs we ve chronicled and stick with Sneaker News as we continue to chronicle Nike Basketball s best on this side of the millennium.Click through to see the TM of HTM s sketches.
The Nike Zoom Generation had to deliver. It represented the start of a relationship with a young phenomenon named LeBron James. The Nike Zoom Generation s lead designer, Aaron Cooper, was one of the first Nike employees to be in contact with LeBron. After being shown some of Cooper s earlier works, LeBron was asked what he was looking for beyond the looks. Without missing a beat James responded,? Comfort. Thursday s look back at 2008 s Zoom Kobe IV was a reminder of how conventional wisdom can shift right under your feet, and today we get a look at a design and really, an entire fabrication process, that was inspired by the unlikeliest of combinations. ?
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nike black trainers game-changing innovation? A visit to China by Innovation Kitchen Designer Shane Kohatsu sowed some creative seeds for a new way of looking at sport footwear altogether. Seeing games played on the unforgiving blacktop in China in mesh running shoes and even hiking boots inspired a quest to create a balance of supportive, breathable and anti-abrasion elements that would unlock design entirely. The Nike Zoom Hyperfuse was a definitive solution a durable composite material composed of three layers: a base layer that contains the foot, mesh that offers breathability
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