Recently the Saucony Type A9 racing shoes ended up on the best running shoes list for T3. Saucony also released two brand new pairs of running shoes, the Triumph 17 and the Guide 13, which both utilize their PWRRUN technology. Running shoes come in made shapes and sizes, and the more innovative they are the...

Adidas recently launched a new model called Adidas 4D Run 1.0. The company spent an entire week shining a light one a ground-breaking 4D model which has helped build the legacy of the innovating franchise. Given how popular running is, and how the best running shoes sell out quickly, it is a good idea to...

By combining a passion for 3D printing and footwear, Retraction Footwear created customizable 3D Printed flip flops. With its sunny climate, Australia is a country where people love to wear flip flops. Unfortunately, they are not widely made in the country. Retraction Footwear wanted to create a 100% Australia-made pair of flip flops that would...

At 3DShoes.com, we’ve had a lot of talk about 3D printed footwear. Today I wanted to mention a new kind of 3D printed shoes; horseshoes. Dutch scientists are creating custom therapeutic shoes through 3D printing. Modeling after personalized foot care in human medicine, Harold Brommer and his associates have carried out pilot testing on two...

Footwear company Superfeet has joined others by using 3D printing technology to help fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Superfeet and Flowbuilt manufacturing announced they would begin using their HP Multijet Fusion printers to help produce medical equipment and supplies. Superfeet said it had successfully mobilized its product development and operations department to produce 30,000 PPE...

Fleet Feet has unveiled a new retail concept in Portland, Oregon, calling it the “Drop Shop.” It combines the brand’s 3D foot scanning technology and personalized outfitting experience with two-day home delivery. Fleet Feet Drop Shop carries try-on samples of the top 35 men’s and women’s shoe models from brands including Brooks, Hoke ONE ONE,...

Shoe specialist Hotter is releasing 3D foot scanning machines across the UK to help with precision shoe fitting. Hotter has invested in the innovative, Hotter Footprint technology which not only measures feet but delivers shoe fitting recommendations. The scanners will be located across 32 Hotter stores and the brand plans to take them on a...

During this challenging time, I figured this article would be fitting. The 3D printing industry is trying to help fight COVID-19. HP announced it’s working with those who bought its 3D printers to make medical face shields, hands-free door openers, and an adjuster for anyone who may wear face masks for hours. Another well-known 3D...

The first women’s pole-vaulting competition wasn’t at the international sporting event until 2000. More shocking than that, there is currently stick a lack of infrastructure for female pole-vaulters. No sporting brand produces shoes for women who participate in the sport. This motivated Elon University Honors Madison George to take matters into her own hands by...

Shoe retailer Vivobarefoot announced plans to launch 3D printing services this year, enabling customers to get personalized and customized footwear. This approach to production fits into a range of new services and platforms for the business, which currently trades internationally. The project is being called “3DVive” and they are looking at scanning people’s feet and...

Unintentionally, we seem to have an animal theme at 3DShoes.com this week. A cat names Dymka has become the world’s second recipient of 3D printed titanium prosthetic limbs. A passerby found him in the snow on the side of the road in Novokuznetsk, Siberia, and took her to a clinic. Thanks to some innovative thinking,...

A miniature donkey named Saler recently received a pair of 3D printed shoes at Wychmere Farms in Ontario, NY. RIT biomedical engineering students, a general manager from Harbec, and members of a Penfield robotics team cane together to help Saler. The tendons in Saler’s front limbs did not develop at the same rate at his...

Adidas recently launched a new pair of shoes as part of their “Faster than” campaign. The SL20 shoes are crafter with a 3D printed “Lightstrike” midsole. The brand claims this new technology will help athletes with explosive movements and enduring speed. The SL20 is the second pair of shoes with a new midsole released after...

If you had asked the founder of OESH if she ever planned to walk away from her job at a medical school, she never would have imagined she’d end up where she is now. She had a well-paying full-time position and was the first woman to chair her department. After graduating from Harvard Medical School,...

Nike is working on creating footwear that directly caters to athletes who are participating in the Olympics. They are diving down into the detail of every event to see how they can best improve the designs. This resulted in a new line of shoes: the Nike Zoom Viperfly, the Air Zoom BB for basketball, the...

Many people like buying shoes, wearing shoes, and even collecting shoes. Not very many people decide to create their own but Nick Unis, who we have mentioned before on 3DShoes.com, is doing just that. Before college Unis had an interest in sneakers where he and his brother would buy special edition Nikes and sell them...

Santoni is displaying shoes at the international sportswear show in Munich, where the Italian company is introducing shoe upper developments. The company is focusing on its XT-Machine for sports shoe uppers. The whole shoe upper is produced by the XT knitting machine. It can provide the function of cushioning and shock absorption, and the openwork...

HP announced a further expansion of its 3D printed insoles business thanks to a partnership with New Balance and Superfeet. Select New Balance stores will be offering personalized 3D printed insoles using the solutions provided by HP and its partners. Back in 2017, HP began to offer insoles that could be tailored to the individual...

Clarks footwear has been designing and producing footwear for nearly 200 years. The company has turned to British 3D printer manufacturer RPS to help shape future footwear and development. Clarks has been looking at ways they could streamline and cut the costs of producing and manufacturing their footwear. Back in 1998, Clarks invested in 3D...

Some of you may wonder what a shoe with a 3D printed sole looks like. You’ll notice they’re a little heavier than usual but still feel pretty good, using the Adidas Alphaedge 4D as an example. Traditional soles of about any kind are created with injection molding. Carbon Digital Light Synthesis does away with the...

Adidas’s 3D printed technology was one of the biggest innovations in the latter half of the 2010s. They’re starting off the 2020s with a new 4D Run 1.0 which combines top-tier technology with a vibrant “Signal Coral” launch colorway, they are the next step in the brand’s 3D printed efforts. Created with a speedy athletic...

Being made of materials such as leather or single-use plastics, shoes are a product that definitely needs a more sustainable solution. Some companies use plastic water bottles, or renewable materials such as trees, merino wool, and recycled cardboard. Canadian company Native Shoe is creating a shoe-making process from the ground up. Cofounder Thomas Claypool states...

The past 10 years have brought some of the most advanced and necessary footwear innovations in history. We’ve seen 3D printed sneakers, auto-lacing systems, and fully recyclable footwear which shoes a bigger, brighter, and more responsible future. Some of the most influential sneakers of the decade have been highlighted, and I want to mention the...

The Adidas Star Wars running shoes have expanded its options which should draw in plenty of fanboys and girls. Some of the best running shoes you can get now feature an R2D2 style. The Alphaedge 4D running shoes have undergone a transformation as dramatic as Anakin Skywalker when he became Darth Vader. The Adidas Ultraboost...

People with flat feet often turn to custom foot orthoses (FOs), which can be fabricated using 3D printing and scanning technologies. Researchers from Taiwan recently conducted a study to evaluate the use of 3D printed FOs by people with flat feet. They 3D printed 18 FO samples and subjected them to human motion analysis, with...

Voxeljet has announced a new technology development for its High-Speed Sintering (HSS) process. Calling it “greyscale 3D printing,” the method allows for creating singular parts with variable material properties. Properties such as mechanical strength, elasticity, material density, material weight and even center of gravity. The properties can be individually influenced in different areas of the...

A Young boy recently got to try out his first pair of new custom orthotics thanks to 3D printing experts at Dinsmore Inc. This year, the additive manufacturing service provider presented Imre Patterson, who was born with a femoral discrepancy which causes one leg to be shorter than the other. His family began working with...

As technology evolves new ways to implement 3D printing into manufacturing processes are being discovered. I have previously talked about the Alphaedge 4D shoes by Adidas, which features and entire sole that is 3D printed. Being priced so high, however, it makes you wonder if they are better than regular shoes. The upper of the...

Previously Adidas collaborated with Stella McCartney. They made both the 3D printed vegan shoe and even a clothing collection. Recently they have released the rainbow Stan Smith sneaker, which is also vegan. You’ll be able to shop for them on Adidas and Stella McCartney online and they will be approximately $447. Stella McCartney is known...

Back in 2015, Voxel8 showed off a desktop 3D printer capable of printing electronic circuits into thermoplastic parts. Although they continued to make announcements, they went silent for a while after that. It wasn’t until this past October that Voxel8 announced having created a system for 3D printing shoe uppers. To help the company with...

Casca opened its first retail space yesterday, November 30th, and it is a shoe store fueled by 3D orienting. The company started out in a Vancouver basement with cofounders Braden Parker and Kevin Reid. By using 3D printing to increase efficiency and reduce waste, the company is setting a new standard for an everyday shoe....

Huntsman Corp. is showing its advances in additive manufacturing (3D printing) technology with the launch of Iroprint materials available in filaments, powder, and resin. Developed in collaboration with major unnamed footwear and sportswear manufacturers, the thermoplastic polyurethane material is easy to print with the added benefit of being soft and flexible. The 3D printing market...

The Under Armour HOVR Phantom SE promises to be the brand’s most versatile sneaker. The design of the shoe has a Techwear vibe to it. Cutouts in the midsole expose the cushioning, while sharp edges along the heel caps give the sneakers a sleek look. The HOVR cushion is soft and gives the impression of...

LANXESS, a specialty chemicals company offers Low Free (LF) isocyanate urethane polymers that can be formulated into resins for 3D printing. The company is known for working with 3D printing companies for creating the resins. Based on Adiprene LF para-phenylene diisocyanate (pPDI) prepolymers. The LF technology creates polymer morphology that can be precisely controlled, resulting...

The Vancouver-based startup, Casca, was created by Kevin Reid and Braden Parker who developed their idea in a basement. The cofounders consider Vancouver’s landscape a perfect testing ground for their products, and the brand name is an abbreviation of Cascadia. The Casca Avro shoe features an ultra-thick E.T. foam footbed and a proprietary support structure...

Adidas will be discontinuing production at two of its Speedfactories in German and the US by April. It is quite a turnaround for them after opening the first Speedfactory in Germany only four years ago. The project was a step away from the usual method of manufacturing shoes. Adidas built the factories to help make...

We’re about a month away from the end of the Star Wars saga coming to theaters, and products related to the franchise are hitting the shelves. With the Alphaedge 4D sneaker being launched and having the latest technology, Adidas introducing the Star Wars X Adidas Alphaedge 4D sneaker. The Alphaedge 4D joins the dark side,...

EOS North America and Additive Minds announced the launch of their Digital Foam program. The Digital Foam hub is coordinated by EOS and pulls together CAD software, flexible polymer materials, 3D printing technology, and the engineering team at Additive Minds. As more materials like TPU and PEBA become more available things like football helmets, bike...

Footwear brand Camper is recognized for stylish yet casual and comfy shoes. They have recently found that they can benefit from 3D printing technologies and have installed a number of 3D printers from BCN3D Technologies. The design team works on a fairly tight schedule, with each concept and shoe design needing to be completed within...

Ganit Goldstein has collaborated with Stratasys in the past on 3D printed clothing and footwear collections. For Goldstein’s latest work, she teamed up with 3D printing company Prusa Research. They created a wearable collection of FDM 3D printed shoes and four outfits that were 3D printed directly on fabric. This 3D printed wearable collection is...

Imagine having your next pair of shoes come from a liquor company. Bulleit Frontier Whiskey has unveiled the latest collab of its Frontier Works project, a 3D printed sneaker designed by Kyle Steed and manufactured by Tangible Creative. These shoes will be available on Sneaker Politics for $250 starting October 25th. The brand will celebrate...

October 2009, Alexander McQueen presented a historic runway moment at Plato’s Atlantis SS 2010. Alexander McQueen fashion presentations were the first to use paint shooting robots for a dress in a Spring 1999 show. Then they introduced a game of human chess in Spring 2005. After that came the Kate Moss holograms in Fall 2006....

The chemical company Dow has joined up with Nexus Elastomer System and German RepRap to provide the ability to 3D print silicone rubber parts in color, utilizing Dow’s 3D printable SILASTIC 3D 3335 Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) material. They also get access to RepRap’s LAM 2D printer and a color dosing system that is developed...

A pair of Nike Air Max 97s usually sells for around $160. Recently, a Brooklyn company has raised that price to $1425 by filling the soles with holy water and naming them “Jesus Shoes.” Brooklyn-base company MSCHF took a traditional pair of the classic shoes and filled the shock-absorbent bottom with holy water from the...

The world-leading trade fair for plastics and rubber will take place at Düsseldorf Exhibition Center from October 16th to 23rd. Wanhua Chemical will launch its 3D printed shoe-material solution. Based on the solution, Peak will unveil the newly-designed 3D printed sneakers. Both companies are expected to present the solutions three features in full coverage, customization,...

A Hallsville High School sophomore, Landon King, has designed a tiger themed shoes that may with a cash prize from Vans Shoes. The competition by Vans Shoes runs through October 13th and allows online users to vote for their favorite shoe design. Landon designed his shoe by inking it out with map pencils on a...

German company Evonik has a partnership with Cubicure to make materials for its Hot Lithography technology. Cubicure Hot Lithography processes materials with a higher impact strength, toughness and heat deflection than those typically used in “cold?SLA processes. The two companies have been developing custom formulations for the method to meet the needs of industrial manufacturing....

Footwear brand United Nude, directed by architect Rem D Koolhaas, and Model Shaun Ross designed a heeled boot with “no particular individual in mind,” Ross is known for gender-fluid fashion, and the plan is to create a shoe that breaks the stereotype that heels are just for women. The Shaun Ross x United Nude high...

Covestro will be unveiling material concepts for running and basketball shoes with Axis Liu, at the K 2019 trade fair in October in Dusseldorf. The shoes are ideal for athletically active people for a healthy lifestyle and improved performance. The shoes include water-based polyurethane (PU) textile coatings and adhesives, PU foams, textile fibers and films...

New Balance is adding to its TripleCell 3D printing platform with the addition of the FuelCell Echo Triple sneaker. The 3D printed shoe will launch on September 27th with a retail value of $175 and features a 3D printed forefoot using Formlabs technology. It is a new take on the FuelCell Echo and follows the...