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Footwear Basics for Footwear Designers 

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 Two day Hands-On Course 

conveniently taught in your offices

This course will take participants through real world checkpoints that will enable them to successfully design a product for retail.  These skills provide footwear designers with a lasting platform to be their most productive and creative selves......

skills I wish I had when I was starting out!

Course Outline

  • Examine what makes a Last beautiful, learn it's function and how to design to the last.

  • Design critically from all viewpoints a shoe (lateral, medial, toe down and rear).

  • Design on a Last or in Virtual Reality.

  • Produce in scale artwork that can be measured from, using Adobe Illustrator.

  • How to correct a prototype and communicate efficiently back to a factory.

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Additional Benefits

Increase Productivity - Reduce Development Iterations - Improve Creativity 

Increase Support for Leaders - Improve Moral

About the Instructor 

  • 14+ years of design team leading, providing a safe and creative environment in which to learn.

  • Best practices learned with coworkers from across our industry; Nike, Ralph Lauren, Crocs, Timberland, Coach, Acorn Slippers and many more.

  • Designing successful brand building footwear since 1997.

*Basic Adobe Illustrator skills are required

 

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