Being from the agricultural country of Poland, I designed my second shoe based off the nature of the nation. To follow up from the previous design, Green Field, I had a look through old photo albums from my previous trips back home to Zbójno and a specific photo of an oat field next to my house inspired me to design this New Balance sneaker.
In this composition, I included my first exploded view drawing of a shoe which was a lengthy process to produce since although it’s fairly easy to design the upper of a shoe in perspective view, it is more difficult to picture and render the shoe’s interior when all components have been pulled apart. Since this is time creating an exploded view of footwear, I used my natural instinct on how to begin drawing it up so at the same time I was creating the perspective view, I was working on the exploded in order for the components to be identically rendered. When it comes to visualising the interior, I had to use my imagination based off from my knowledge of how similar footwear is constructed.
Even though creating exploded views of footwear can be difficult to get your head around, this view of a shoe is extremely useful to present the tooling and construction. It also allows you to show off the inside of the shoe in a very technical style. If you have designed a beautiful insole and liner and you want to display all the shoe’s components in one picture, I would say that the best method of doing this is to create your own exploded perspective view.
With this Oat Grain design, I really wanted to represent the natural aspect of an oat field, so I worked with a very earthy colour and material scheme. Caramel leather is used on the toe cap, vamp, NB Logo and counter because this colour ingrains the raw and natural themes into the sneaker. A light-brown suede is also used on the quarter, but the tongue is a light-grey suede to separate the shoe’s colours just like the light-coloured mesh units in the vamp and collar. Finally, the eyestay is a copper-coloured oil-tanned leather which was directly inspired by my 1907 Red Wings and to continue the natural aesthetic, I designed the insole to be made of cork which is even believed to be environmentally friendly because, surprisingly, the process of obtaining cork does not involve chopping down cork trees!
On certain features of the sneaker, I have included puritan stitching because to me, it really represents durability and excellent quality of footwear, but I also think it compliments the lighter components such as the midsole and tongue. On the outside of the shoe, I created an embroidery piece of an oat plant which is placed on the heel counter and to present the Oat Grain branding on the shoe, I added a label of the shoe’s name which is sewn into the counter. To distinguish between the inside and outside of the sneaker in minimal ways, I had the suede feature on the collar coloured black on the outside and light-grey on the inside and only placed the embroidery piece and Oat Grain label on the outside.
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