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Michal Cuckoo was born in castle. He graduated from the Secondary School of Electrical Liptovsky Hradek bigw careers and then studied transportation design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Its portfolio were able to in addition to school when doing graphic and industrial design. During the height traveled because he was lazy. As a graduate still did not work, so took Leonardo and went to Spain. While working for free, but many learned and used their knowledge in future work. In Spain remained about two years, until it started to print shoes. Literally. He went to China. At first he did not know how long they stay there. But after a four-month internship it finally left. Michal bigw careers Cuckoo is 29 years old and working as a designer for the world-famous fashion brand United bigw careers Nude.
Michael: It's a small company, even if the outside looks like a big fashion brand. It works about 30 people. The majority are Chinese who speak English. They mainly communicate with factories and in charge of logistics. Creative part of the study consists mainly of people from Europe.
Michael: It's a fashion brand and we mostly women's shoes. Even men's shoes, but because women spend much more on shoes than men, so we focus primarily on women. To do this, we handbags and bracelets. bigw careers I came here to do especially shoes and learn about the footwear bigw careers industry. After a year, but I have been allocated to other projects. For example, a special collaboration with other designers. That we use techniques that are not usual for the manufacture of footwear. We say, for example, the 3D printed shoes. It's crazy, but we are looking bigw careers for a way to implement the design and make it usable shoe. In addition to 3D printed shoes, there are other techniques that have never been used for shoes as ROTOMOLD (rotational molding) or FOAM PRESSMOLD.
Michael: I now have a break from women's shoes. The commercial world does as much freedom. I am glad that I can work well on a variety of special projects for which I have already learned a great deal. We recently returned from New York where we are in one of our stores have it trigger design printed bigw careers shoes. The client can buy a small 3D printer. To download any 3D file and you can print it at home. This printer is but very small. Press space is 15x15x15 inches. We therefore wanted to create a shoe that you will be able to print using this little printer. But of course, no shoe is not so small. We thought so that the shoe will be printed in three pieces, the user can put together his shoe. All you need is a stick sole. It is a plastic shoe, because it pushes the plastic printer. The shoe is a little tough, but inside is like a normal shoe, there are no edges. But it is not the shoe for all-day wear. I would rather say that it's such a proof of what is possible with current technology.
Michael: This project has demonstrated that it is no longer possible. But who wants to wear plastic shoe all day? Nobody. If the technology bigw careers moved on, so we did. We can also print softer plastic, but it is a huge industrial printer that will not only have at home. We had one such collaboration with Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, with whom we have developed a design shoes that looked like a tree, respectively. pieces of branches that grew as the leg. And the shoe was also printed TPU (thermoplastic). Was composed of two parts - the rubber part, which was inserted into the second part which has the same design, but was hard. A combination of these two sections, bigw careers we got a full shoe that is tough where it needs to be a flexible, flexible bigw careers and comfortable where it is necessary also.
Michael: Every season, which is half a year. But this is not about that one shoe. It's the entire collection, a collection which must respond to market needs. We have to know which shoes will be needed for next season. What types, designs and materials. Then comes the creative moment, when we come up with new ideas. Therefore, we employ bigw careers the designers from outside, we let the external inspiration. This is the first part of the process. Then the second part, when we have the shoe to create. To lard. And it is often the initial idea to the final result changes. At the beginning of the ten ideas that are mixed, recombined and created from it's exactly what we need. Hard to say whether any shoe gets the same form on store shelves, as was proposed at the beginning.
Michael: Several brands working with TPU - thermoplastic. The shoe while looking like plastic, but is flexible. But that's just the cover, the rest is like a normal shoe, inside the sole than normal shoe, heel is hard. In this particular example is the manufacture of such a shoe is very expensive. For each size from 35 to 41 must be made, milled steel its special form. And that costs tens of thousands of dollars. bigw careers It's not the most efficient method of producing shoes, but of course, sold very well. It's something different and not every brand is the shoe of this material.
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