How To Integrate 3D Printing With Existing Technologies?

In the past week, Nike is in.

The capital city of New York, Tokyo and Hongkong held three Air Max Con.

To celebrate its landmark annual Air Max Day, all the venues contain ingenious designs.

Meticulously dressed and encompassing.

The exhibition was impressive, even Nike CEO Mark Parker visited the Air Max Con site in Hongkong and pushed the whole event to its climax.

Mark Parker, who was born as a sneaker designer, is now a respected business leader.

Although he is busy at work, he will find a balance between daily affairs and creative design, and express his ideas and personal aesthetics through some joint projects.

A good example is HTM HTM, which is created by tidal Godfather Teng Yuan Hao, Nike and Jordan Brand's legendary designer Tinker Hatfield and Mark Parker herself.

In order to embody Air Max Day this year, the HTM group has launched its own shoe design for the first time.

Mark Parker chose Air Max BW, which is called "Big Window", as a blueprint, and referred to his "V series": Vengeance, Vortex and Vector 3 pairs of running shoes, which were followed by the shoe design, shoelace hole, shoe collar rear, rear trim, vamp, cage, middle sole and outsole. Finally, the new jacquard weaving process was adopted, which is a tribute to the design language and style of 1980s.

We had the honor of inviting Mark Parker to the H-T-M Kitchen exhibition room of Air Max Con for one-to-one conversation. The concept of AIR MAX CON originated from the latest version of the concept of SNKRS SNKRS, which was told by him.

AIR MAX CON

Why do you choose to open Air Max Con in New York, Tokyo and Hongkong?

The three cities have a strong culture of sneakers and influence the whole world.

Here, there are many shoe collectors and Air Max enthusiasts, so we chose to open Air Max Con in New York, Tokyo and Hongkong.

These places are developing very well in terms of innovation, fashion and life.

If it's about digital technology or social culture, it's not just limited to it. The key is that these three cities are full of vitality, and they are located in different parts of the world. This allows different cultures to have an opportunity to understand who we are and what we are doing.

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What can AIR MAX CON bring to you?

I think this is a way to celebrate the design of Air Max itself, the design of Air Max, the influence of pop culture, the cultural heritage of sneakers, and the different forms of sneakers.

As a designer, I am very surprised to witness these changes.

I like to see that a thing can be interpreted in many different ways, which is very visual.

This is what we want to do when a real sneaker comes here and can experience it in an interesting way.

SNKRS

What kind of development does Nike hope to achieve through SNKRS app?

App, like products, we try to make it more personal.

Through the actual interaction with app, we can understand in depth what you are looking for and what is important to you. I think this is the general trend.

After understanding the concerns of users, we can create something new.

Innovation is based on the accumulation of every day.

3D-Printing

We see that many sports brands have joined the ranks of 3D printing technology. How does Nike make use of this technology and compete with other competitors?

We have been involved in the use of 3D printing technology for three to four years, and we have added this technology to the clothing and accessories models for athletes. You will see these products in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

But with the progress of science and technology, new materials will be developed, and they will be more potential in rapid simulation and mass production.

Maybe one day, you can walk into a shop and you can match different parts and characteristics of different shoes into a sports shoes you want.

There are some things that we are working on, which I can not disclose here for the time being. But 3D printing technology will be a part of our future.

How to combine 3D printing with existing technologies (such as Flyknit)?

We will have Flyknit combined with 3D printing products.

We use it as a model to understand something in the process of pforming 2D into 3D.

With the development of new materials and the progress of 3D printing technology, we have actually made some models and made world-class athletes test.

At the same time, our most important point is how to personalize and quickly customize products. For example, by analyzing the data of your foot's buffering power, we can build a personal buffer system, and also include your own aesthetic design.