Wait, This Is a Shoe?

via Gizmodo



A shoe? What do you mean a shoe? This can't be a shoe! Oh well, I guess it is a shoe.





And a high heel shoe at that. Designed by London architect Julian Hakes, the Mojito shoe is made of carbon fiber—to give it strength and spring—and laminated with rubber on the bottom and leather—from furniture manufacturers in High Wycombe, England—on top. According to Hakes:

With a high heel providing the heel is supported, even by standing on a wooden block the foot naturally 'spans' the gap naturally, with bones and tendons.

Pradeepan Indrakumar's handmade shoes

via Core77 on 6/9/09

Talk about ambitious modelmaking: UK-based designer Pradeepan Indrakumar specializes in footwear, and while his current projects for Clarks are under wraps, his handmade shoes done for earlier school projects can be seen at Coroflot.