Barcelona-based Espaipupu is hosting an exhibition of customized Vans sneakers.
There's some nice work here. It's a far cry from the ball point pen I used on my sneakers as a teenager. Many pairs are
for sale.
If don't have the time to hand paint your own shoes or can't afford the ones at Espaipupu, then try out
Converse's custom shoe builder. Nike has one too. (Of course Nike owns Converse now, so it's not surprising
that the online application works the same way.)
The two approaches here point to the rise of the personal fabrication movement. See Neil Gershenfeld's
Fab Lab and the Personal Fabrcation Special Interest Group (both from MIT) for
starters.
[via core77.com]
