09.11.12 / Permalink / Comments (0)

Ellesse Fab Five & Atmos

Part of this year's installment in the ongoing Ellesse Fab Five project, this Picasso art-inspired Marathon '84 collaboration is by Japanese sneaker store Atmos...

The Art & Sole Cortez iD Project:      Matthew Nicholson Nike Cortez     Paper Sneaker Template

As you know, March this year saw the release of our very own collaboration with Nike and, as part of that project, we commissioned artist Matthew Nicholson to create this pair of Cortez sneakers using his excellent paper-craft skills. Since then, Nicholson has kindly agreed to share the instructions for creating the sneakers with us; offering our readers the chance to make their very own paper Cortez by simply downloading this (free) template…

The Art & Sole Cortez iD Project:      Shantell Martin Nike Cortez           Digital Wallpaper

Incase you haven’t noticed, we’ve added some free-to-download digital wallpaper, by artist Shantell Martin, to our online shop section. Created as part of our Art & Sole Cortez iD collaboration with Nike, the wallpaper was originally distributed with the book/sneaker packs on a specially produced Art & Sole Cortez iD flash drive…

26.06.12 / Permalink / Comments (0)

adidas & Stefan Glerum

For our final post on the adidas Consortium 'Your Story' sneaker collection, we're taking a look at the Decade Hi collaboration with Amsterdam-based illustrator Stefan Glerum...

22.06.12 / Permalink / Comments (0)

adidas & Shaniqwa Jarvis

Following on from our previous post about the adidas Consortium 'Your Story' project, the second of the five-shoe releases happened on Saturday, and included this ZX500 silhouette designed by London-based photographer Shaniqwa Jarvis...

11.06.12 / Permalink / Comments (0)

adidas & Kate Moross

Part of the ongoing adidas Consortium ‘Your Story’ project, this collaboration with designer and illustrator Kate Moross is themed around the 2012 London Olympics. Created with grey suede uppers, the shoes feature a reflective triangle-based pattern including block-colour traingles which reference the various colours of the Olympic rings...

15.05.12 / Permalink / Comments (0)

K1X & The Lion Base Crew

Following a sister project from 2011, clothing brand K1X have just released this new collaboration with young African artist collective the Lion Base crew - a 20-strong group of 'street kids' from Sierra Leone...

26.04.12 / Permalink / Comments (0)

Nike & Mark Ward

Even though we were in Spain at the time, we still managed to tune in to the huge sporting event that is the London Marathon. Every April, thousands of runners set out to test their endurance, and in order to celebrate the event, Nike teamed up with artist Mark Ward to create graphics for this special London edition of the Nike LunarGlide+ 3...

The Art & Sole Cortez iD Project:            Jiro Bevis

To celebrate the release of the new mini edition Art & Sole book, we've collaborated with NIKEiD on an artists project which includes four special edition Art & Sole covers, and four Nike Cortez sneakers. In addition to our feature special on the Art & Sole Cortez iD Project, we thought we'd catch up with all the artists involved and ask them about the artwork they created for the project. In our final interview, we talk to London-based illustrator Jiro Bevis...