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Project Unity
An Exploration in 3D
Footwear Systems
Project Unity was conceived from our desire to provide designers the ability to fully navigate the process from idea to product using Advanced 3D technologies. This meant first building the architecture of a mono-form shoe, with the option to separate into traditional components, and design each part in the most minimal or expressive style - without limits. To achieve this, we needed to integrate the holy trinity of 3D printing - powder, resin, and filament - with the cardinal processes of foam, rubber, and textile. From shape and silhouette, internal and external components, to texture and surface, each step was carefully crafted in a digital entity bringing together software and footwear into one product platform - Unity.
BEHIND THE DESIGN
DETAILS
Modular System
We created a complete set of components that would be necessary for a designer to build a finished, wearable shoe. Macro components like Upper and Midsole, essential parts like toe caps and eyelets, down to detailed components like internal collar pads, mesh structures, lattice cells, and edge details.
Advanced Monoprint
To Design a shoe in a singular form for 3D printing required a new approach to sections where we could control each intersection of forms with the printed lattice structures to ensure perfect shape and functional output.
Part Builder
To shift from monoprint to multipart meant managing the offsets of materials and gauges for every part to ensure that assembly would be exceptionally accurate for every combination. This included foam midsoles, resin printed uppers, powder printed outsoles, and knit and textiles uppers.
3D DESIGN INNOVATION
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“The Unity shoe was all about cohesion—materials, form, and function working as one. It became a way for us to test how Interplay™ could help designers balance expressive creativity with real-world performance constraints, without sacrificing either.”

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