Sneakers Unboxed

Author: Alex Powis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872005539
Category : Sneakers
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This is the first book to gather leading designers, creators and industry insiders to reflect on sneaker design and its ground-breaking impact on popular culture. Contributors provide insights into the evolution of sneakers from sport-wear to style icons, the processes and people involved in sneaker design and its global future.Through conversations with the people directly involved in the creation of sneakers, it speaks to the the next generation of sneaker designers and wearers by asking: who are the people involved in the design of a sneaker? How do their roles and approaches differ? How does their individual work contribute to the collective effort of making a sneaker? What will the future of sneaker design be?Richly illustrated, it includes iconic sneakers, drawings and sketches, prototypes as well as glimpses in the manufacturing process. Across three chapters - Style and Culture, People and Processes, The Future - the approaches and experience of industry leaders unfold the past, present, and future of sneakers as style icons and cultural facilitators. Contributors turn to the next generation of designers with an open challenge to move the industry towards a more positive direction for both the people and the planet.

Complex Presents: Sneaker of the Year

Author: Complex Media, Inc.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683359399
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
In 1985, Nike released Michael Jordan’s first sneaker, the Air Jordan 1, and sneaker culture was born. Now thousands of people wait in line at Supreme, and companies throw millions of dollars at LeBron James to keep him in their marketing plans. The trend that saw steady growth for decades with the emergence of sports, hip-hop, and sportswear advertising has exploded into a phenomenon. And no one has watched that phenomenon more closely than Complex. Sneaker of the Year explores the past 35 years of sneaker culture with the expertise, authority, and passion that only Complex can offer. With vibrant photographs and illustrations throughout, as well as input from some of the sneaker world’s most important voices, this compilation is a must-have for hypebeasts and sneakerheads everywhere.

The Adidas Archive. the Footwear Collection. 40th Ed

Author:
Publisher: 40th Edition
ISBN: 9783836591072
Category : Athletic shoes
Languages : de
Pages : 0

Book Description
The adidas story is one of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and conceiving the all-around sports shoe, worn by the likes of Lionel Messi, Run DMC, and Madonna. A mecca for sneaker fans, this book presents adidas's history through almost 200 pairs of shoes, including one-of-a-kind originals, vintage models, and designer pieces.

Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly

Author: Neal Shusterman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471121585
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 980

Book Description
Unwinding - the process by which a child is both terminated yet kept alive. With breath-taking suspense Unwindis a chilling futuristic tale of ethics and morality combined with fast-paced non-stop action. This ebook boxed set includes Unwind, and Unwholly, plus a bonus companion story, Unstrung. In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would 'unwind' them. Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs and Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together through desperation, these unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing all the while that their lives are hanging in the balance…

Thundering Sneakers

Author: Prudence Mackintosh
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292752696
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.

The Home

Author: Richard Mckenzie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
A memoir of the author's years spent in an orphanage in North Carolina in the 1950s, presenting it as a place which, while lacking hugs and kisses, provides a stable home that turned out optimistic, well-adjusted young adults.

Out of the Box

Author: Elizabeth Semmelhack
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847846601
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
A groundbreaking traveling exhibition, Out of the Box showcases sneakers, from the mid-nineteenth century to sports performance breakthroughs, to present-day cultural icons. Drawn from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum and significant private collectors, museums, and archives—including adidas AG, Converse Archives, Kosow Sneaker Museum, Nike Archives, Northampton Museums and Art Gallery, and Reebok Archives—this selection is richly contextualized with interviews and essays by design innovators, sneaker collectors, and cultural historians, creating a backdrop of the technical innovation, fashion trends, social history, and marketing campaigns that shaped the form over the past two centuries. Out of the Box includes sneakers ranging from an 1860 spiked running shoe, a pair of 1936 track shoes, Air Jordans I–XX3, the original Air Force 1, and early Adidas Superstars to contemporary sneakers by prominent figures including Damien Hirst, Jeremy Scott, Jeff Staple, and Kanye West. The book also highlights sneakers and prototype drawings that span the career of Nike sneaker design legend Tinker Hatfield, making this the definitive illustrated history of sneaker culture.

Thick as Thieves

Author: Kat Bastion
Publisher: Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion
ISBN: 1957025158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
Skate onto thin ice as multiple award-winning author Kat Bastion spins five brand-new multicultural holiday stories in… Festive Frostbite: A Colder Christmas Collection ’Tis the season for stealing and… icing. Five orphans raid a luxury department store over Christmas in… Thick as Thieves Other standalone books in the FESTIVE FROSTBITE series... A charming college football quarterback corners a sexy cat burglar in… Caught at Christmas Gunmen and Mother Nature chase a newbie snowboarder down the slopes in… Snowed Under An innocent college girl hires jaded hitman Mick Morgan in… Best Served Ice Cold Christmas party petty theft turns into grander larceny in… Billion Dollar Holiday

Soundings in Fathoms

Author: Frazer Dougherty
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1684568986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Soundings in Fathoms is in essence a memory and a dedication to my current thirteen great-grandchildren, with the thought that this maneuver might better keep the families together—that thought and the series of surprises throughout, leaving mysteries unanswered and each to wonders. Chapter 8, for instance, "XAPA, 1969–Forever (My Netsuke)" now given away by me, shame! And chapter 15, "Full Circle," and as the days go by, more full circles every day.

Kicks

Author: Nicholas Smith
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0451498127
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
“A vivid picture of how what we wear on our feet can tell us what it really means to be an American.”—Vanity Fair “Expansive, thorough, and entertaining . . . a comprehensive look at how much the sneaker became a signature indicator of cool.”—The Wall Street Journal A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity “It’s gotta be the shoes.” When Spike Lee said it to Michael Jordan in a 1989 commercial, it was with a wink and a nod—what makes MJ so good? His Nike Air Jordan IIIs, of course. But as Nicholas Smith reveals in this captivating history, Lee’s line also speaks to the sneaker’s place at the heart of American culture. Once the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart of American life was just getting started. In this rollicking narrative, Nicholas K. Smith carries us through the long twentieth century as sneakers became the totem of subcultures. We follow the humble athletic and watch as sneakers become the calling card of California skaters and New York MCs, the spark of riots and gang violence, the heart of a global economic controversy, the muse of haute couture, and a lynchpin in the transformation of big sports into big business. Along the way, we meet larger-than-life mavericks and surprising visionaries: genius rubber inventor Charles Goodyear, risking everything to get his formula right; the warring brothers who started dueling shoe empires; road-warrior Chuck Taylor, hawking shoes out of his trunk; and many more mavericks, hustlers, and dreamers. With a sure stride and a broad footprint, Kicks introduces us to an influential and evolving legacy.