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naturally this means removing weight and extra layers of materials. the dream was to give athletes the best possible experience of fit and lightweight performance wrapped into one. Rob williams: sustainability is a product of the process. a designer is still the first step in the process but what happens after the design handover is very different.ĭesignboom: how much of a role has sustainability played in this?

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this is much different then the traditional hand crafted process generally used to make a shoe that is based on a series of patterns provided by the designer.

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the main difference in the method of making is that a machine knits a structure based on information it receives from a software program that is translated from an original design. Rob williams: flyknit has evolved from just a dream that a small team of NIKE designers and engineers had years ago as a way to enhance the performance of athletes, and fast forward to today where we are able to produce shoes for the market. with flyknit a designer is now able to think about the shoe as one layer, with all of the needed support, structure and breathability built in to the design.ĭesignboom: how has flyknit technology evolved and how does the approach to the manufacturing process differ from other methods?

for thousands of years shoes have been made with a cut and sew process. Rob williams: the flyknit process is a method of crafting a shoe in one knit layer. the lightweight running shoe is fabricated without seams – repositioning the landscape of not only the product, but also the manufacturing with new techniques and philosophies to produce a new generation of high quality sportswear.ĭesignboom: can you describe the NIKE flyknit innovation and explain how it differs from other shoes in NIKE’s running collection? the ‘flyknit’ range challenges the status quo of foot wear design.

Designboom interviewed NIKE‘s footwear designer and head of the ‘flyknit collection’ rob williams to find out about the technology, processes and development behind the innovative shoe.

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