Walk Of Mind 鞋履 by Hadar Slassi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金奖 in 鞋靴设计 Competition Category.

金鞋类· 2020

Walk Of Mind 鞋履

by Hadar Slassi

Client: Walk of Mind

A' Design Award 金奖 Winner in 鞋类 Category

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The Design

About Walk Of Mind 鞋履

《心之漫步》是一双将数字化制造与传统手工艺相融合的鞋履。其结构由五个被称为"层理"的层次构成。其中三个层理采用选择性激光烧结技术,以尼龙12聚合物3D打印而成;其余层理则由植鞣革湿法模压成型。各层理通过几何形态相互咬合锁定,并以手工缝制加以接合。每一双鞋均以足部的数字扫描数据为起点,因而贴合度极具个人化。这双鞋轻盈耐用,而该工艺方法使皮革用量减少了80%。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金奖

Walk Of Mind 鞋履是 A' Design Award 金奖得主，这是授予一流、绝妙而杰出设计的极为崇高的认可。金奖得主是极具创新、极富远见且璀璨夺目的创作，反映出其设计师的天才、智慧与才干。预计Walk Of Mind 鞋履将成为一项备受赞誉、引领潮流、气势恢宏的发明，带来前所未有的价值。这件赢得 A' Design Award 金奖的设计是一个壮观而受人敬重的项目，极大地造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Walk Of Mind 鞋履激起强烈的渴望，唤起激情，鼓励创造力，令我们着迷。

Behind the Design

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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