Do you want to see how big brands like Nike™ and Adidas™ make shoes? Are you a Sneakerhead or a Sneakerfreak with a passion for shoes? Are you a designer ready to make a start in footwear? The How Shoes are Made book series will show you how modern shoes come to life! More than just a tour through a sneaker factory, you learn the details of the process. From drawing shoe designs to sample development and footwear manufacturing, you will see how the experts do it. Written by veteran shoemaking professionals, How Shoes are Made will give you a look inside the REAL world of shoe design, development, and mass production. Your footwear career starts here!
See how big brands like Nike™ and Adidas™ make shoes. The How Shoes are Made book series will show you how modern shoes come to life! More than just a tour through a sneaker factory, you learn the details of the process. From drawing shoe designs to sample development and footwear manufacturing, you will see how the experts do it.
Read by shoemakers in 60 countries – Over 10,000 sold.
About the Author
Wade Motawi is a working design professional. Wade studied industrial design at the University of Michigan School of Art. In 1995 he started in the shoe trades designing hiking books and traveling to the far east. Over the following 25 years, Wade worked as a shoe designer, developer, product line manager, development group manager, advanced technology group manager, buyer, sourcing manager, and R&D director. He has experience working on sports shoes for running, skating, mountain biking, brown shoes, hunting, hiking, snowboarding boots, soft goods and hard goods for wakeboarding, snowboarding, and kiteboarding.
Wade has lived in the far east, and traveled extensively in China, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Europe, and Australia. Wade makes his home in San Diego California with his wife and two teenage boys.