Dutch shoe designer Marloes ten Bhömer has created a pair of 3D-printed shoes that can be individually made to fit perfectly. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12.
Currently on show at the Design Museum Holon in Israel, the Rapidprototypedshoe is modelled on a computer and produced using a 3D printer that layers two different materials in microscopic structures.
Certain parts of the shoe can be removed and replaced when they wear out.
The object is on show as part of an exhibition called Mechanical Couture - Fashioning a New Order, which explores the role machines and technology can play in redefining fashion and is on show at the museum until January 2011.
Here's some more information from ten Bhömer:
Rapidprototypedshoe / 2010
Rapidprototypedshoe is built using an additive manufacturing technology in which successive layers of a photopolymer material is UV cured. Rapidprototypedshoe is built in one go, but consist of two different materials.
The concept of the shoe is based on the idea of the absence of assembly work in Rapid Manufacturing, however the shoe is designed in such a way, that it can be dismantled for the purpose of replacing parts. The different material properties within the shoe are created by constructing/layering the material in microscopic structures from two different materials. A myriad of different material properties can be created using this method.
Mechanical Couture; Fashioning a New Order, 14 October 2010 – 8 January 2011, Design Museum Holon, Israel
Curators: Curatorsquared; Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox
Other exhibitors; Dai Fujiwara, Shelley Fox, Ying Gao
and Simon Thorogood
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| Beigefoldedshoe by Marloes ten Bhömer |
Lo Res by United Nude |
More shoes on Dezeen |
this made me think about Phillip's idea…
I want more pictures with feet in then, and perhaps an idea of the fashion that the designer/photographer thinks may suit the shoes…
These look cool, if a little uncomfortable… not sure about the hardiness of them either but very funky!
Do they flex etc?
i like how the shoe is designed in rhino
The image with the technician sitting utterly non-plussed in his chair is delicious. "Pointless sodding shoes…" Great how you can replace some bits of the shoe when they wear out as you would with any other shoe. Fy Fan.
"The image with the technician sitting utterly non-plussed in his chair is delicious. "Pointless sodding shoes…""
Took the words right off of my keys! That was the highlight of this article for me too!
Yet another example of form over function.. when does applied art become useless design??
Sometimes the function is the style. Get over it.
Blister-tastic! Nice concept though…
very nice Idea ! It looks a bit though like a foot is being sliced :-)
It reminds me of Raffaello Scardigli's work!!!
realy…..goodheart…..it's very Raffaello Scardigli's work!!!
The idea to design a rapid manufactured object with the possibility to take it apart is pretty cool.
Lol. Funny article and photo but I really think 3d prinitng will take off in a big way. As soon as the price of the printers comes down there'll be a lot of exciting custom products coming out.