Tag: educational

Street Shoes for Osa

Collections, New Projects

The fun continues in a new direction. Osa sent me 6 pairs of Nikes and here’s where the first three have ended up! I’m pretty tickled with how they came together. From researching what people often do with Nikes, I took a mathematical twist. Simpler than many of my designs, in terms of the mathematics, but more complicated in their construction as the shoes are pleather and require different steps to complete.

First, this pair was inspired by the Louis Vitton patterns found on some high top sneakers. Usually the iconic LV is surrounded by its other symbols, but I went for the irrational backbone of much of mathematics: pi. this one seemed like it needed quiet sophistication with the brown stripe around the bottom of the shoe.

This colorful shoe was inspired by the trend where you outline the shoe to make it look like it’s out of a comic book. Graced with Euler’s Identity – the equation directly used to prove pi transcendental which implies the impossibility of squaring a circle – the shoe is much louder than its humble beginnings as a fully white shoe.
I call these my “Calculus War” shoes. What would happen if Newton and Leibniz were street artists tagging their way through mathematics? Whose side are you on??

Three down, three to come.

Chem Shoes are the best shoes: change my mind

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Actually, I already changed my mind because Math Shoes are actually the best shoes, but it’s a catchy title, and I wonder how many people who saw that were like ‘Waaaaaaiiiiiiiiiit a minute! She wouldn’t think that!’ #MatheleteForEva, don’t worry.

These were a fun pair to make. One of my challenges as an artist is the “less is more” concept of leaving blank space or making things a little bigger than I might think to. Very few people will be taking a microscope to these shoes to read the smaller print I painstakingly etch on. The strangest things can be the most mind blowing. So here we are. Tell me what you think!

Osa’s Chem Shoes

Love to all,

Julie