These Nike Air Force Ones were created after Obama’s landslide success on Super Tuesday. The imagery and color scheme are based on the campaign currently being promoted, and can be seen being used to a great extent here. I am not only impressed by the detail and clarity of the design, but also how it captures the essence of Obama’s campaign. The designer who’s named Van painted these out of support and you can clearly see the inspiration that the senator has had on him. I asked Van what made him paint these and this is what he said:
“To be honest man, I just woke up in the middle of the night around 2am and I had to paint what I saw in my dream. During that time I was going through a starving artist period, so things werent looking too good financially. But God made a way..”
These shoes probably won’t make people run to the polls, but you can clearly recognize the rising popularity of his campaign. Take a look at more of Van’s work here and look at our previous coverage of the ongoing campaign here.
We’re a lil’ torn on this post. Nike’s producing some really cool eco-friendly re-releases of the Nike Zoom [BB II Low], this time from 100% marketing waste (material scraps, environmentally preferred rubber and fully recycled cardboard). This however was the doing of Steve Nash, and residing in LA we just can’t show any love for him and his sore back. But hey, looks like the environment is benefiting from him not leading his team to a championship, so we have no gripes with that. Also, while we’re on the topic- Sasha, cut your hair, you’re looking like Euro-Nash out there.
Ever since their release, the Nike Air Jordan’s have become a cultural phenomenon. It’s now been 23 years, and they are not slowing down in trying to make the best (basketball) shoe ever.From going to Milan and getting the softest leather on the planet. To getting design queues from the great Spanish cities of Europe. This shoe has not skipped the smallest detail (literally) and definitely makes you take a second look at those beat Pumas you’re wearing.With all this impressive attention to engineering detail, it makes you wonder what if NASA had worked with Team Jordan? Would we have cities on the Moon by now? We probably would, and we would all be wearing the sickest (moon) kicks too.
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