Footwear2023concept

BRUT SHOE

A shoe drawn as a building. Working studies, 2023.

A pair of grey block shoes on a pale ground, each a stepped wedge with a louvred toe panel and an oval opening for the foot.

Two grey ribbed wedge shoes seen from above and behind, the fine vertical ribbing catching light across the whole surface. — The ribbed surface treatment, cast across every face of the block.

A shoe built as a single wedge of mass. The upper is one block, ribbed like a cast panel, cut open at the top by an oval hole the foot drops into. The heel steps down in two flat tiers to the ground, and a bank of deep louvres runs across the toe like a vent.

The same block shoes at a lower angle, showing the moulded pocket inside where the foot sits and the stack of louvre slots at the heel. — The one soft part: the moulded pocket inside the block.

Nothing on it bends. It was drawn as a building first and a shoe second, every surface is flat or a fixed ledge, so the only soft thing is the moulded pocket inside where the foot sits. A taller version pushes the same block up the calf and presses a bare footprint into the outer wall.

A tall grey boot standing beside a second boot lying on its side, a bare footprint pressed into the outer wall of the fallen one. — The boot version, with a footprint pressed into the outer wall.

These are working renders, not a finished pair. They sit in the Brut family beside the shades and the case, and stopped at the study.

Medium: 3D renders
Role: Design, modelling, rendering

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