Sustained Investigation Three

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For this project, I decided that I would create a pair of sneakers that combine Ikea and Nike together. I thought it would be interesting to combine two things that don't have much in common and create a sneaker that melds the two together. While making this, it was hard trying to keep the shoe design not feeling cluttered but also represent. I tried theming the shoes around colors that are associated with Ikea. These colors being blue and yellow, the brown was to convey the idea of cardboard and construction, which is a central idea behind Ikea's brand.

What I did to create this was used Adobe Illustrator. I tried designing features that you might see in an Ikea instruction manual or with products you would purchase from Ikea. With the Nike swoosh on the side of the shoe, I designed it with the idea of being like a piece of plastic that you would snap out. The Ikea logo was supposed to be almost like a build-it-yourself table or dresser where specific slots pegs slide into.

My favorite part of this project was designing the idea representing Ikea and how I could turn it into a shoe. I found it was hard to draw the front of the shoe since it is just an odd shape.