Shoe Design Basics
Shoe Design Basics
Non-Credit 5 week short course
Instructor: Mike Friton
Dates: Tuesdays, May 6 - June 10, 2025
Time: 4:00 p.m. PST
Students will focus on developing a solid foundation of shoe design ability, including shoe history, vocabulary, biomechanics, sketching, brief creation, material selection, pattern-making techniques and construction systems. You will create a digital footwear collection that will be critiqued by industry professionals, which could be used to build your portfolio. Students must have a basic understanding of design processes.
Instructor provides reading material and videos each week. The class meets each week for an hour online to discuss.
*For an additional $75, students can purchase an optional show box kit which will has the materials to make a simple shoe that they can modify to fit their own design.