Walk Of Mind シューズ by Hadar Slassi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金賞 in フットウェア・靴・ブーツデザイン Competition Category.

金フットウェア· 2020

Walk Of Mind シューズ

by Hadar Slassi

Client: Walk of Mind

A' Design Award 金賞 Winner in フットウェア Category

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The Design

About Walk Of Mind シューズ

Walk of Mindは、デジタルファブリケーションと伝統的な手仕事を融合させたシューズです。その構造は「ストラータ」と呼ばれる5つの層で構成されています。3つのストラータは、選択的レーザー焼結法（SLS）によりナイロン12ポリマーで3Dプリントされています。残りのストラータは、植物タンニンなめし革をウェットモールディング（湿式成形）して作られています。各ストラータは幾何学的に組み合わさってロックされ、手縫いによって接合されます。一足ごとに足のデジタルスキャンから制作が始まるため、フィット感はパーソナルなものとなります。この靴は軽量かつ耐久性に優れ、この製法により革の使用量を80パーセント削減しています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金賞

Walk Of Mind シューズは、まさに素晴らしく傑出した第一級のデザインに授与される、計り知れないほど権威ある評価である A' Design Award 金賞の受賞作品です。金賞の受賞作品は、きわめて革新的で、先見性に富み、きらびやかに輝く創造物であり、デザイナーの天才性、叡智、卓越した技量を映し出しています。Walk Of Mind シューズは、最も称賛される、流行を牽引する記念碑的な発明であり、前例のない価値をもたらすことが期待されます。この A' Design Award 金賞を受賞したデザインは、壮観で尊敬されるプロジェクトであり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に大きく寄与し、それを前進させます。Walk Of Mind シューズは、強い欲求を生み出し、情熱を呼び覚まし、創造性を促し、私たちを引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The strata compound method bridges gaps between modern digital technology and old-world craftsmanship. The project combines additive manufacturing 3D printed SLS mold of natural web cracked earth patterns, together with traditional wet molding vesicle forms (bumps), while weaving together nylon 12 polymer and vegetable-tanned leather. The shoe structure strength is acquired by all five stratas compound together creating a geometric lock enhanced by hand sewing. The design process begins with personal customization by using a digital scan of a certain foot.
Dimensions & Packaging: width 90 x depth 260 x height 100
Tags: 3D Print, SLS Print, Digital Craft, Wet Molding, Shoe Design, Vegetable tanned Leather, geological strata, Comfort Shoe Design, Bezalel Academy
Production Technology: The design process starts with very detailed planning at the digital stage taking into consideration all the aspects of binding all the stratas together. It requires a wide overview combined with detailed specifications to allow a precise assembly. The shoe design is a compound of 5 stratas. Triple of them designed on rhino software and grasshopper cod and printed in the SLS technique using nylon 12 polymer. Those stratas exactly match each other while taking into consideration the non-printed stratas (wet molded, vegetable-tanned leather pieces) that are compound afterward as well.
Design Challenge: The design process starts with very detailed planning right from the beginning taking into consideration all the aspects of binding all the stratas together. A wide overview and detailed specifications are required. The biggest challenge the designer faced, was cognitive. The need to think in advance of all the details of each of the shoe stratas from the sketch stage up until the digital stage.
Research: Walk of mind project started and was inspired by the designer's early research on shoes and feet at Judaism. At the beginning the material research was all about traditional craftwork, trying to manipulate and encouraging the material into new horizons. Hadar's desire was designing shoes that will have a natural bond to the feet and also to the ground. The strata compound method at first was created as a Design solution and afterward developed to be an Innovative design methodology.
Inspiration: Walk of mind pioneers shoe hybrid fabrication design concept and explores a new approach to shoe design accompanied with new terminology. Using an originative shoe layering strata Compound method that retraces the known base hierarchy of function and shape in Shoe layers. Walk of mind shoes is a compound of five stratas. Strata - a geological term describe the fundamental earth unit. Hadar uses it to replace the known term in shoes - layer. The project started and was inspired by early research on Shoes and feet at Judaism, relying on spiritual yet earthly ground, the project allows the designer to inner examine her heritage and its values.
Project Duration: Walk of mind was created between December 2019 - June 2019, as part of the designer final project from her BA. studies at Bezalel academy of arts and design at the jewelry and fashion department in Israel.
Operation Flow: Walk of mind has some notable advantages: The design begins with personal customization by using a digital scan of a certain foot. The shoes are very light - yet durable due to the skeleton they consist of and the leather compounding method. 3D printing allows using only the material you need with almost zero waste. The compounding method reduces the use of leather by 80 %: first, by using 3D printed stratas that form the skeleton of the shoe, second, by using small pieces of leather that enable wider usage of the same Raw material sheet of leather.
Image Credits: Image #1 Yael Moscovich, Image #2 Yael Moscovich, Image #3 Alon Morovich, Image #4 Alon Morovich, Image #5 Alon Morovich
Video Credits: Yael Moscovich