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NEW! First Pullover receives a lot of inquiries from Start-Ups and Entrepreneurs. To help, please review this FAQ document from our Design Consultancy, The Directive Collective.Entrepreneur Concept FAQ - "I Want to Start a Footwear Brand - Now What?"PDF available here

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NEW - China Aluminum Last Making Video below-More last making pics and process here

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A last is a generalized anatomical representation of the human foot shape. Created from a data set and functional requirements specific to a sport, a desired look, or an athlete, a master last is created from which production copies can be made. Production lasts are made from either turned (lathed) plastic, or sandcast aluminum. The Last is First.Click the Read More link below for a review of

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This series covers the full scope of production processes.While the manufacturing production process might vary depending on the design of the shoe (ie. if it is a football boot or running shoe), and the specifics of each step in the process may be done in a slightly different way from factory to factory, the general process and steps involved is the same.Click the Read More link below to view

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While in China I had the opportunity to check out a leather tannery that produces cow and kangaroo finished products for many top brands' performance and lifestyle footwear.This particulary tannery doesnt process the raw hides, but rather recieves them in "wet blue" form from local manufacturers or imports skins from Australia/New Zealand (kangaroo leather) or Europe (cow leather).Click the Read

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While every designer has their own method for Photoshop renderings (and I'm by no means an expert), I do get a lot of requests for the process that I typically take to create a presentation rendering. I've put together a little tutorial to show the steps I use. Click the Read More link below for all 6 parts of this tutorial.**one note- im doimg this tutotrial from a finished rendering "in reverse

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A to Z of footwear technical terms, construction methods, part names, and more. BuffTo remove material by a sanding or roughing process. For example, EVA midsoles are buffed before assembly to help break the smooth surface for better adhesion to the upper.Cement/Board Lasting A lasting process where the insole board (carboard or texon) is inserted onto the last bottom and the lasting margin (

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Side project sketching exercise- Revival Converse style, based on the Pro Team, Pro Star, Pro Leather, Weapon. Overall design focused on ankle support and use of large, high quality leather panels in reference to the original leather styles. No overcomplicated technical story here, just exploration of pattern and minimal overlays with links to the original forms. Some patterns are flipped (ie.

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Another good excercise for those not so comfortable drawing footwear in 3D. Sketch a range of upper and outsole 3D views, without worrying about the design. Repeat, daily!an quick example of a 3d sketch session.R

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Some good discussions going on now on the core77 footwear forums at http://boards.core77.com/viewforum.php?f=24Once discussion is about designing a shoe for a specific category, and how to express a product DNA through proportion, pattern and form to fit.I've suggested the following tip-One trick I find in designing any type of shoes for a particular category is first finding out what "defines"

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...Just got back from a great weekend up in Ottawa to check out my alma mater, Carleton Universtity School of Industrial Design.I was honored to be asked to be the keynote speaker at the Alumni Reception on Saturday, and presented my thoughts on design and my experience to the graduating class and ID Alumni.The Graduation Exhibition, titled 'Open up to Design' features the works of the 4th year

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Just got back late yesterday from my trip to Hong King and China, and have lots of great pics and posts that will be up soon.First up, a nice Panoramic shot of HK (Kowloon, Mon Kok area) at night Click the pic for the full size pic (sorry, can't upload a larger pic to flickr/photobucket)

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The concept of character is very important in all hummel products. Character since 1923 is now the company tagline (our "Just Do It"), and this concept evolved and was first developed in footwear.I first created the "Jeg har Karakter" concept ("I have Character", in Danish) for my first new football collection with hummel, the 2006 Collection. (see post here about the concept and design brief in

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As mentioned in the 8.4 PIO FGX Unboxing post, I have been involved in more than just "footwear design" here at hummel. A large part of my work is the strategic design and creative direction of the hummel Footwear brand.One of the very first things I did after starting at hummel 2.5 years ago was to build up a portfolio and create a brand package for technology and performance features that are

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I am a big believer in total product experience. As such a lot of my effort here at hummel as Footwear Dept. Manager has been not only focused on the footwear product, but the supplemental things that combine to create a positive experience for the consumer. This includes packaging, graphics, instructions and more.As you will see in the post below, the new 8.4 PIO FGX really presents a total

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Finally! After more than 1 year in development and production the first 8.4 PIO FGX production shoes arrived today at the office direct from our warehouse (via the factory in China, of course).The 8.4 PIO FGX has, since the project inception, been my "baby" and incorporates the culmination of several years of work in rebranding the hummel footwear product. From the design of new box, new

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One of the best things about going down to Copenhagen recently was CPH Vision was....Copenhagen! In my opinion, THE top city for its combination of European flavor, medium size, and great design and fashion, everywhere.Click the Read More line below for more pics of KBH.

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I probably spent more time looking at people than at the clothes, but did notice a few trends to speak of.Certainly, as mentioned earlier and seen as well at ISPO, the 80's and early 90's colors and patterns are moving things in sportswear in one direction. A mix between urban camo, and 80s skiing, prints like this hot pink, blue, green are (unfortunately in my opinion) coming back.Click the Read

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CPH Vision, like most fashion trade fairs is a place to not only spot new brands and trend, but many very interesting people. Personally, I find the fashion people more interesting than most of the fashion.80's is back....with a vengeance. If these fashionistas are to be believed, we will all be back in hot pink and leggings, sweating to the oldies in no time. In my opinion, I find it all a

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First up in coverage from CPH Vision is the new hummel booth and collection. hummel presented a new booth for CPH Vision, which combined the traditional Dansih wood aesthetic with clips of hummel history and past highlights, inspired by the recent hummel Indoor and Old School catalogs I was involved with.The latest (FW07) footwear collection was also presented, which I will cover in more detail

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Just got back from a great weekend in Copenhagen full of CPH Vision, Copenhagen Fashion Week some great shows, parties, shopping and a day in Malmo, Sweden.Overall, probably the best, most inspiring weekend I've had in a long time. Copenhagen is a great center for Design and Fashion, and Fashion Week only adds to the unique Scandinavian eccentricity and charm.I'm now working through almost 900

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UPDATE-Styledepartment.com interview with me about hummel and First Pullover is now up.hereas well, translated German version is available here

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A little late on the coverage (been so busy with ISPO and everything else, but thought I would post a few pics and comments regarding the recent XX Men's Handball World Championship held in Germany 20/01 - 03/02.Click the Read More link below for lots more pics and info covering the WC07.For this very special event hummel put together a exclusive marketing and sponsorship campaign, "Black in

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I didn't have too much time to explore and shop around Munich while I was there for ISPO, and it was my first time in the city, so I am sure missed a lot of hotspots......in any case, check out some pics from my trip below. Not particularily trend/footwear oriented, a little feel of my trip nonetheless.Click the Read More link below for more pics.

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On Sat., Feb. 3 I attended the Volvo SportsDesign ForumThe theme of the forum was Personal Design, and a wide range of design and business professionals spoke and led workshops. The interesting discussion topics ranged from customization and brand identity to business aspects and applications of personalization and micro-markets.Speakers included -Stefano Natoli, Head of NIKEiD EMEAAndrej Kupetz,

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CPH Vision is coming up next week (Feb 8-11) as a part of Copenhagen Fashion Week, which I will also be attending (its Trade Fair Season!). Anyone in the area or going to the show, feel free to drop me a line, and we can see if we can arrange a meeting.As usual, I'll be bringing back the latest pics, trends and news from this show and Copenhagen so stay tuned.

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Just got back from a full weekend in Munich with lots of good pics to share.I shopped around Munich a bit Friday, attended the Volvo SportsDesign Forum and Awards Saturday, and hit the ISPO fair Sunday and Monday before coming back to Denmark.As well, I also had the opportunity to hook up with Cris from StyleDepartment.com for an interview about hummel footwear design and First Pullover. The

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I'm still working on a more complete post with detailed notes about the development of the 8.4 FGX, but in the meantime, I came across some early pullover pics I would like to share.The initial idea for the 8.4 FGX was a lightweight, breathable mesh football boot, inspired by our indoor shoe, the 9.3.Click the Read more link below for more pics of the initial concept and pullover.As development

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Following my recent Photoshop rendering tutorial I've got a lot of great responses and questions. One of which I thought I would address here.Q. "How do you render a white or light color shoe without it looking dirty?"A. It all depends on the consitency of your shading and highlights. You can also play with the overal lighting and general mood to help your rendering pop out.I threw together the

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UPDATE - I have just arranged my attendance at the Volvo SportsDesign Forum/Award Ceremony 3 Feb, 2007 in Munich and at the ISPO Fair 4-5 Feb.If anyone is going to the forum/fair and would like to hook up, feel free to drop me a line at rkuchinsky@gmail.comR

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In conjunction with 2007 IHF Handball World Cup now going on in Germany (more World Cup action/campaign info to follow), our latest Indoor 2007 catalog is back fresh from the printer. I posted earlier some of the process and photoshoot from this catalog, here, in part is the final catalog.The final printed catalog turned out really great. Special thanks again, to Martin Kristensen, hummel graphic

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The 8.4 PIO FGX has just been nominated for a Volvo SportsDesign Award to be presented at ISPO 2007, February 3 in Munich.The competition honors the best products focused on the theme "Personal Design".Check out the competition here Volvo SportsDesign AWARD

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Concurrently with the pattern development, colorway options and material specification is worked out.To develop narrow down the colorway and final spec, first, a wide range of color options are quickly explored. Using the outline drawings of the style in illustrator, a number of different directions can be discussed and looked at.Click the Read More link below for more pics and info.Normally, the

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Ive just finished an exclusive interview with Alan from Footy-Boots.com that is now posted. The interview discusses some of the thoughts behind the new football boots and the design and development process at hummel.Link to InterviewFooty-Boots.com also has a nice review of the 8.4 PIO FGX as well.8.4 PIO FGX reviewwww.footy-boots.com

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To share, some more content from the upcoming Indoor 2007 catalog. These sketches are from the concept design of the new indoor shoe, 11.1 that features an integrated design assembly for ultimate fit. More to come soon on this new concept.

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The 8.4 PIO FGX was featured today on 3 great design/innovation websites! Check out the links.BusinessWeek Innovation&Design (Design Snapshots halfway down the page)Core77 Studio BullitsCore77

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As mentioned, the latest Indoor 2007 catalog will also feature a lot of design/development process work. Sketches, photos of sample, factory production, etc.To capture the development process from the design studio perspective, another photosession session was set up, moving more than 10 boxes of papers, samples, binders and bits from our real office to a photo studio. Due to the tight space and

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Over christmas and just before New Years, things were busy here putting the catalog together for our latest Indoor 2007 Collection.This catalog will be a special version of our normal presale catalog featuring great product photos, technical information and more. Inspired in part by the popularity of First Pullover, this catalog will also feature design/development process work.I have been

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coming soon!As identified earlier by keen blog readers, our most exclusive and exciting hummel football will soon be launched to the public. The 8.4 PIO FGX.The 8.4 PIO FGX is a limited edition version of our latest boot, the 8.4 Concept FGX.Click the Read More link below for lots more pics and information.As introduced in recent limited lifestyle footwear collections (see FW06 Per Invitation

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Depending on the project, normally more than one pullover sample is made to correct and determine the pattern. A complicated, technical shoe may take up to 5 rounds of samples to get right.For the development of the SS07 Stadil, we went through 2 rounds of pullover samples, adjusting mostly small details and further refining the design on the second round.Click the Read More link below to see the

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Once the design had been transferred to a half gauge pattern by the pattern-maker in Asia, a first pullover sample was made to review.In reviewing this pullover, several changes and adjustments were made to the pattern in order to try to keep the look as close as possible to the original, and the overall look in keeping with the retro style.Given that there are really no "rules" for most of these

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Taking inspiration from photos of the original style, line artwork was created to develop the pattern of the new product.While following the original as closely as possible, some changes were made to update the style. These included adding a woven label on the tongue with English and Danish text (based on the tongue logo of another vintage style), changing the chevron pattern was update to

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New for SS07 (coming Jan/Feb 2007) are several styles inspired by actual vintage products. Unfortunately, almost no samples were kept from our rich 83 year history, and little more than back catalogs from the 1980s and few earlier photos remain in our archive.To bring back from our past key styles, equal parts of creativity and development were needed to recreate designs only using grainy catalog

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A great find of mine, JUSE, creator of the concrete dunks project and LAVAR T-shirt collection blogged earlier, is now running an exclusive contest to give away a VERY limited development sample of hummel Jacobsen sneakers.This style was never produced so only exists in about 20 sample pairs worldwide.Check the link for contest details and be sure to check out his latest project "Out of the box",

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Its been more than a month since my trip to Switzerland, but a very busy schedule here and more travel have meant I havent been able to post earlier.In any case, here's some pics and info from the trip.For the most part, the trip was a special visit to hummel sponsored club FC Thun. As you may remember Thun qualified for the Champions League last season, and I attended one of their final group

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In addition to visiting and working with FC Thun, this trip gave me an opportunity to visit Bern and Zurich, Switzerland for inspiration/research. Both are great cities for design and have a unique european feel.Click the Read More link below for lots more pics.

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I've been away for the last 10 days on vacation in Italy, so didnt get to attend myself this year, but be sure to check out http://hummel.dk/Company/News/Sensational%20Street%20Soccer.aspx to see some of the great images shot by Ulrik Jantzen on Saturday 26th at Israels Plads in central Copenhagen of the 2006 Women's Street Soccer Tournament.

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First up, some general pics from the CPH Vision fair to give you an idea of the atmosphere. If you have never been to a fashion industry trade fair, and ever have the chance to go, I highly recommend it. Not only is there a fantastic selection of brands and fashion (all in one place), better than any department store, but there is always a great collection of fashion people. Interesting outfits,

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...back to Copenhagen! If you are in Copenhagen this week/weekend, be sure to check out CPH Vision. Scandinavia's largest lifestyle/fashion fair. I'll be heading to CPH tonight and will catch the show tomorrow, with some time for shopping on Sat.Of course, hummel will have a booth, and we'll be presenting our latest collection (SS07) of Old School footwear, among other things.more pics of the

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Last week in CPH at Asbæk Gallery in Norreport, was the opening of the Dunny Show CPH.I was there representing our hummel Hunny Dunny and checking out the party. UPDATE- the show Dunnys are now on auction at Danish site Lauritz.com. Check the hummel Hunny Dunny item hereMore pics after the Read More link below.

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As promised, heres the other new colorway to be released Jan/Feb 2007.Black/White/GoldMore pics after the Read More link below.

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Looking for the Perfect Fit? Using a revolutionary new smart-foam material, this sockliner system can be custom molded to your foot using heat for ultimate comfort and performance.A custom molded sockliner provides maximum surface contact with the foot, ensuring fewer pressure points and better performance and control.This special sockliner is included with all 8.4 Concept/Elite FGX boots.Click

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First pics here of the NEW 2007 8.4 Concept FGX!As mentioned, this new boot features our hmlFIT Customized Fit Technology which is a heat moldable sockliner. I believe, that this boot developed from the inside out, may be one of the best fitting and most comfortable boots on the market.Click the Read More link below for additional pics and specs.In addtion, specs include--NEW Wide-fit anatomical

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In the upcoming Fall 2 issue of the Eurosport catalog, there will be a full page feature on hummel boots. As a part of this ad, some of my sketches and renderings will be included.

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Not exactly footwear related, but interesting! hummel has been asked to take part in The Dunny Show CPH, an exhibition of customized Dunny toys by some of the best designers and creative people here in Denmark. The event follows hot on the heels of the previous Kid Robot Dunny Shows in NYC, SF and elsewhere. I have been involved working up concepts for the proeject to be fabricated. Check out the

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New for 2007, the hummel 4.2 Concept FGC/SG features an exciting new material > Pittards WR100X Analine Goat Skin.The military use this leather for the very thin, but high performance gloves worn by the Special Forces who jump out of helicopters and slide down ropes to action. In these high wear circumstances, gloves are required that will give good water and sweat resistance, but also excellent

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As mentioned earlier, one of the most exciting things about the new coming 2007 hummel football collection is the development of a 100% new boot, the 8.4 Concept FGX.The boot was designed from the ground-up (or inside out, depending how you want to view it), and features a number of revolutionary new innovations designed encourage the best fit and performance possible.One of these important

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OK all,Here's the exclusive first news of the hummel 2007 Football collection, to be released Jan 2007.The 2007 collection (as was 2006) is focused on 3 top models, for different kinds of players. Rather than based only on position, or features (ie. lightweight, etc.) it is based on personality and "Character", and all offer a wide variety of exciting technical and performance features. More on

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Just got the word from my friend/artist/designer JUSE, of Concrete Dunk fame, that his new line of BMX/LA inspired t-shirts, Lavar, will be dropping this summer.More pics and info after the Read More link below.This line, now in its second year is a graphics/fashion project based on his background in the BMX industry.JUSE explains, "The essence is basically a mix between street wear and bmx (

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I get a lot of emails about interest in the footwear design process. Most commonly, it is requests to share the sketches, drawings and concept design process. Here are a few pages from my portfolio that cover this process. These sketches help illustrate the concept design process from inspiration to idea exploration to technical design and specification.These examples are from my design of the

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Ok all,Coming soon (july/august) to retail, here's the first look at the latest hummel indoor collection. These shoes were specifically developed for european handball, and designed and tested in consultation with some of the best players and teams in the sport.More pics after the Read More link below. Technical info coming soon.

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Final QC (Quality Control) and and packing are the last steps in production before a finished shoe is done in the shoe factory. Throughout the production process, there is constant checking by QC inspectors at the end of every step and during the process for specific manufacturing issues. This final QC inspection is a more general checkng of the shoe.Click the Read More link below for more info

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Sorry it has been a while since the last post. Time flys when deep in the heart of the development season, and i've been in Asia a total of 24 days during the last month and half!In any case, heres the second to last in the Football Boot Production Series....Assembly.Assebly is the final production process before packing and final inspection in the manufacturing of a football boot. In this step,

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One of the most important steps in footwear production, is lasting. This process gives a shoe its shape, and as mentioned before, the last is key in good fit and comfort.This is even more important in a football boot where touch and fit and very important to performance.More info and pics after the Read More link below.The lasting process comes after the full upper is stiched together. At this

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More good stuff that never saw the light of day. more pics after the Read More link below.

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There's been some interest lately on the construction of football boots. Now, you can see what's on the inside!Check the Read More link below for more pics and info.There is almost more that goes into a football boot on the inside than is visible on the outside. One of the most important things to assure good fit, comfort and performance (aside from the last) is the inner reinforcement and

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Digging through the hummel archives, I've just found some incredible pics! back in the 60's and early 70's the hummel brand was based in germany, and our football boots were produced in west germany.Check out the pics of vintage football boot production. Amazingly similar to current factories in asia. While somethings change the basic method of producing shoes has actually changed little in the

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Of course no boot or shoe could be made (at least not yet) without stitching. During this phase of production, the various upper materials already prepared (printed, embossed, embroidered, etc.) come together in what is called a stitching line (a production line with stitching workers doing different parts/components), to tranform flat, single pieces into an (almost) whole shoe.Click the Read

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In the long and difficult process of footwear development, there are always things that "dont make it", For one reason or another, styles or colorways are often cancelled throughtout the process, or before production.In this feature, From the Crates, (which will I will be trying to make a regular thing), I will be posting some pics of cancelled styles and colorways. Sometimes its pretty obvious

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Here's those original football boots I mentioned in my Old School post that inspired the latest style, Sorensen and Wein. Check the Old School post for more info and the Read More link below for more pics.The other colorways of the Wein and Sorensen pictured below are in stores now! Old School SS06.

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Another new collection from hummel! This collection, while not strictly reissues, takes inspiration and design cues from the long history of hummel teamsport footwear. Presenting some of the great stories and ideas found the hummel vaults, this collection, to be released at retail July 2006 will be the first new sport lifetyle colleciton by hummel in more than 15 years.Click Read More link below

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The details are everything in design, and footwear design and football boots are no different. Many football shoes, have decorative details, that are screen printed on the upper, or embossed parts and logos. These printing and embossing details are usually done in the shoe factory in special printing areas.Click Read More below for more info and pics about the process.Contrary to popular belief,

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Some more pics from Bread and Butter Berlin. no comments necessary. just some intersting people, intersting products and interesting sights.Sneaker specific pics and more Berlin trend forecasting sneaker pics (including nike spiritroom coming later).Click Read more below for the full pic-extravaganza.

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Here is the complete hummel Per Invitiation Only FW06 collection, with descriptions in english, for all those of you who couldnt read the exclusive first release post by Joachim over at 7inch.dkThe Per Invititation collection is the premium lifestyle footwear collection for hummel. Offered only to select sneaker and fashion stores, with limited distribution, only about 50 stores world

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Back from a crazy weekend in Berlin! As mentioned, I attended the BBB show, where hummel fashion was presenting our latest fashion and sport fashion textile collections and the world premiere of the new lifestyle footwear, Per Invitation Only and Old School.Lots of pics coming all this week from the show and Berlin.Check some pics of the hummel stand below. click Read More for additional

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As I'll be off to Berlin tomorrow, and am currently busy packing, I dont have time to post another espisode in the production series. Instead, I've got some great pics from the same asia trip, en route to China while I was in Hong Kong.Check em out. Great porno+guns T-shirts, mad sneaker shops and HK city pics after the Read More link below.

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Update- hummel Fashion will be at Bread and Butter Berlin (BBB) at Stand S31. Check us out there! see you in Berlin.

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The always excellent Danish sneaker blog 7inch.dk has the exclusive first pics of the new hummel Per Invitation Only lifestyle footwear collection. 7inch.dk has the first release pics worldwide of this collection, so check his blog for more pics and info (in Danish). Thanks Joachim.This collection will be premiered at Bread & Butter Berlin tradeshow later this week. Check us out there at the

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Its that time again! BBB. I'll be off to Berlin this Thursday until Sunday.hummel fashion will again be showing at BBB, with a special preview of the latest lifetyle footwear collections.If anyone is planning to attend BBB, and would like to stop by our booth, feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment here, and we can work out a time.I'll be posting more info regarding our booth location

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The next step in production is cutting and preparation.In this stage, the selected materials are taken from the material warehouse, and brought to the cutting room or area. Cutting dies are used, which are metal cookies cutter like dies, used with a large stamping machine that puts puses down the die onto the material.More info and pics after the Ream More link belowSee cutting machine pics above

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In any shoe, the upper materials are one of the most important (and expensive) components. For football boots, the upper materials are even more important as good materials can make the difference between good and bad touch, comfort, performance, and fit.More pics and info after the Read More link below.The new hummel 2006 football boots use a variety of natural and man made materials for

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The hummel 2006 football collection has arrived! The newest hummel boots have just arrived in stock. Here's a complete visual overview of the boots.For more pics follow the Read More link below.

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As I mention, things have been busy!Last week at the hummel head office here in Aarhus, Denmark was presentation and fashion for our salespeople and internal staff. Presenting the freshest Fashion and Sport Fashion textile collections, as well as the latest (FW06) liseftyle footwear, the event and show was amazing. just another perk of working at a sportslifestyle company!Lots of pics after the

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In this series, I will be reviewing and presenting pics and information about the production process of a football boot. Following the complete production process, from material preparation to final packing.More info and pics after the Read More link below.Following the design and development of the new hummel 2006 football boots, including the 4.2 Concept FGC above, the next part of the product

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Rendering tutorial continued.Click the Read More linke below for more of the tutorial.In general, most of the rendering techniques are pretty much a "do and repeat" process of each different part of form, highlight and shadow.Once you start to develop your skills it gets pretty easy and just requires some patience and time. Nearing the end of the rendering, you can add additional effect by

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Rendering tutorial continued.Click the Read More link below for more of the tutorial.Now it starts to get into the details and adding addition 3D highlight and shadow cues.To bring out the edge of each upper part and make the rendering look less flat, I copy and paste lineart from the Illustrator artwork into the PS document on a new file. First, I bring in a black outline for each part approx. 2

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Rendering tutorial continued.Click the Read More link below for more of the tutorial.To create the toecap texture, I use an easier method. First I make a layer and shade with the airbrush in the area (again, by selecting the path for the part) and set the layer to mutiply. Then I use the Filter > Texturized > Sandstone to make the roughed texture PU look.To start to add texture to the PU upper I

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Rendering tutorial continued.Click the Read More link below for more of the tutorial.To add texture to areas like mesh and PU, I use a method that combines illustrator and PS.For this quarter mesh section, for example, what is to be a heavy weave nylon mesh with 3M reflective threads, I make a swatch in illustrator first that approximates the weave. This swatch is then used to make a large

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Rendering tutorial continued.Click the read More link below for another edition of the tutorial.After the solid area is of the upper is made as a base, I then make a new layer (called something like Body Shadow) and use the airbrush tool to lay in some general shadows that help give the idea of form. I do this step early so I can start to picture the shoe 3D and get a feel for where the light is

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First time at a Champion's League Match! And VIP Champion's Lounge seats, no less!FC Thun is a small club, from a very small city in Switzerland. Thun, is about 30min. from Bern, and has a population of appox. 41,800. Since qualifying for Champion's League FC Thun has played all "home" games in Bern at the new Stade de Suisse.The match vs. Ajax on 02 November, 2005 was a great compeition and

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I know its really been a while since I've posted new content, but its really not for the lack of great things happening. Actually, things have incredibly busy and lots of the great things I have been been happy to have been a part of (and have been happy to share here)are now really starting to take off!2 weeks ago, I had the amazing opportunity to visit Switzerland along with our Product

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As mentioned earlier, there will be a special limited 6.2 Concept FG dropping in the new year. First details here!For more pics and info follow the Read More link below.The 6.2 Concept FG Limited Edition Pony will be released worldwide at the start of the new season Jan 2006.Production is limited to 1923 pairs worldwide (the hummel brand was created in 1923). Each pair is individually

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More goods straight outta the vault. These are two vintage hummel boots- one from 1964 (white/black) and one from circa 1950's (baclk/white).Also, some great stories too to go with the boots. Click the Read More link below to find out more.This style debuted in the 1964 European Championship in Vienna, Austria in which Denmark became the surprise entry in the final tournament, joining the Soviet

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I had a really great opportunity today to check out our central distribution warehouse just across the Denmark/Germany border in Flensburg.It was my first time seeing a live full scale distribution and logistics center, and it was overwhelming. Almost 1 million pieces on stock in 2 huge buildings. Think Ikea self-serve warehouse X 20!!More text and pics after the Read More link below.Familiar

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By request following the my previous post, some addtional pics of the 6.2 Concept FG and full feature list. The 6.2 Concept FG features-Supple, soft engineered SuperMicrofibre upperhmlFIT dynamic lacing system for support and controlLightweight Microfibre full lining constructionPig Skin leather collar lining for comfort and luxuryNatural Pig Skin leather socklinerCM EVA molded performance

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Just dug outta the crates some vintage hummel catalog and flyers. Some great classic stuff, circa late 70's by my best guess. Great chevron tracksuits. Aside from the hairstyles and crazy poses, pretty timeless, I'd say. Still some of our bestsellers!More pics and info after the Read More link.I guess before photoshop, for a "realistic" save-by-the-keeper-action-shot, they just had to hope nobody

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Mattias Lindström of Aalborg Aab scored in a game a week or so ago vs. Sønderjyske (i think it was), and Iøve just recieved some pics of the goal.As you may remember in previous post Football 2006 testing at Aab, Lindström has been part of our testing program during development of the 6.2 Concept FGMore pics after the Read More link below.you can also see the white/tan 4.2 Concept FGC on the

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