Shoes with Custom Prints

Have you ever wanted to get a pair of shoes with a special and unique design, maybe even with a design you have made all by yourself? Well, the Swedish company "Look Down" will make you a pair of shoes with your design on them for roughly 200-500 EUR.

Interesting concept!

BTW: Their websites look extremely odd - and doesn't work very well...

Comments

Simon - Jun. 16, 2008

Yes Thomas I agree. This is an interesting concept. Doing things yourself is getting en vogue again and the Internet does a good job promoting such concepts. But the website is not doing them a grand favour.

Thomas Baekdal - Jun. 16, 2008

Indeed :)

Niels - Jun. 17, 2008

I think they are not the first with this concept, I saw some shoes of Nike on the television a few weeks ago that had the same principle; customize your own shoe. Interesting though!

Thomas Baekdal - Jun. 17, 2008

Well, Nike got Nike ID, which allows you customize you nike shoes and create something that is uniquely yours. But, the difference is that Nike allows you to choose between a (huge) number of Nike elements - but you cannot add design elements yourself (except for some text).

Peter - Jun. 18, 2008

The website looks terrific in Firefox, but it does look kinda crappy in IE...

greghousesgf - Jun. 26, 2008

I'd like to see some in color.

Anonymous - Jul. 7, 2008

I like the custom shoes at punkyourchucks.com

Thomas Baekdal - Jul. 7, 2008

I like the custom shoes at punkyourchucks.com

Wow, nice ones. Thanks for sharing!

Dren - Jul. 17, 2008

Roughly 200-500 euro?!!!

Now thats expensive...

Converse also sells custom made shoes but yeah you can choose the designs and not make your design.

Sole Brother - Jul. 20, 2008

I like their designs, but it is unfortunate that they had to STEAL the content of their Info page from my site -> Sole Brother Custom Sneakers

Very unprofessional!

Thomas Baekdal - Jul. 21, 2008

That is indeed very unprofessional

jOSH - Jul. 27, 2008

this must be illegal...

http://www.futurespace.co.za/2008/06/adidas-customized-sneakers/

Thomas Baekdal - Jul. 27, 2008

It is, but at least they link back to me. There is actually a lot sites that copy the content from this site. And some do it without crediting me as the source.

Jarrad Nelson - Jul. 27, 2008

With regards to content used:

http://www.futurespace.co.za/2008/06/adidas-customized-sneakers/

We by no means see this as an underhanded move. It's more about spreading the great content that you source to new users.

Many of our viewers may not know of you and thus, it's an aid for the online community as a whole.

As you noted, references were given.

Please feel free to take this up with me directly, if you feel our practices were unethical.

We have great respect for your site.

Anonymous - Aug. 5, 2008

check out kedsstudio.com. you can use your own art on the shoes...

Anonymous - Aug. 12, 2008

i was thinking of doing this sort of thing myself. what do adidas / converse think of this? i was thinking it might infringe their tm? not sure?