All posts in Shoes
Back to the Future Automatic Lacing System
Usually patent diagrams aren’t that exciting. The above images are—they’re illustrating an automatic lacing system. A couple years back I had a post about the actual shoe here, here, and …
Link Drop (7·17·09) & (7·24·09)
This week’s Link Drop is a double issue as I was preoccupied with being in SF last Friday. For this post I combined the best of what I found in …
Link Drop (4·17·09)
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Link Drop (3·27·09)
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Buckles are this year’s shoe lace trend (ok, maybe not)…
I was bouncing from blog to blog to blog this week and came across a strange trend that’s new to me. Buckles aren’t new and have been on sandals forever, …
Link Drop Contextd for the Week Ending in Friday the 20th (February 2009)
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12 months of condensed DesignNotes in 2008
Wanting to take a look back so I can figure out how to proceed with 2009, I grabbed a bunch of notable posts that I thought were worth spending a …
Unmarked Shoe
As blurry as the above images are, they illustrate a simple idea really well. Camper is a fairly trendy shoe company that has a mark that is made with incredibly …
Architecture wrapped up as a shoe
I don’t think I would have ever predicted I would be mentioning a woman’s shoe from Gucci on DesignNotes, but coming across the above image via the blog Zesty Perspective …
Nike Apple Air
via the apple blog
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DesignNotes is published in NYC by Michael Surtees. Michael tries to explore people's daily experiences and observations with design. Recently he shifted from being the Principal and Creative Director of Gesture Theory to designing products at Dataminr. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com 
