Benoît Deneufbourg

The idea was based on mixing bright colours and forms inspired by nature and geometry, a bit like some tribal tattoos. The design and placing of the sketches are both designed in an a-symmetrical way, but creation itself is one whole. [www.benoitdnb.com]

Florinda Schnitzel

>Hovercraft Shoes<
With this shoes you can slide over water and strange surfaces.
When you get sometimes a flat tire-no problem-take a patch and glue it. [www.florindaschnitzel.de]

Golo Schmeh

In order to preserve it's nature I deliberately continued to use rubber as material due to its tremendous
expressive character for the entire shoe.
Rubber sequins out of a hole puncher have been used with the intention to achieve a notion of snake skin imitation.
The impression of snake skin transmits a feeling of high value. [www.golo-schmeh.com]

Johannes Schroth

The material and the "readymade-concept" determind the design aproach.
I used leftover material, a bycicle-repairset and some rubber ropes i found in an office-shop.
I have called the shoe ìwingbladeî.
The stripes that are radiated by the shoe tip shall resemble feathers, they also convey dynamic.
The patches are scares, signs of hard labour and are contrasted by the purple rubber laces.
The feathers are a symbol of freedom, the patches stand for tuff, self-chosen work and purple is the
colour of silence. [www.newskooldisplay.com]

Jan-Philipp Wittrin

POG’s Rubbersocks are the functional addition to the classical Corean Rubber Shoe. The Rubbersocks transform the shoes into temporary rain boots. The Louis XIV styling of the socks changes the pragmatic shoes into fashionable items. [www.janwittrin.de]

Jaybo aka Monk

HE AND HER
Man and woman as an unsplittable entity, symbole of creation in the pendel of life, different but same
in the simplicity of their material , this shoes are not make for walking , they´ re made for reflexion about the
responsibility of creating a new association: we are all equal. [www.myspace.com/jayboakamonk]

Wessel Nimmer and Supermann (JPECH.NET)

Must-Have MedicationsUnder Construction
JPECH combines in its own unique way a wide array of skills ranging from painting, photography and (graphic) design to animation and the USE OF LIGHT. JPECH rocks /// 3-chord visuals /// magic /// use of light. [jpech.net]

Sybille Kesslau

first work
Traditional Korean rubber shoes with healing silt
The combination of rubber shoes and healing silt works well. It is like a never-ending foot massage so long as you are walking.
The combination is open for a new design to combine
more of our life elements than our design elements

second work
Traditional Korean rubber shoes with sandpaper [www.sybillekesslau.com]

Metrofarm

The Metrofarm elaboration over and design of these shoes uses concrete. It shows the meeting of a fine delicate shape and a ruff material. That the one shoe is broken symbolizes the difficulties of this meeting and fragility of society. [www.metrofarm.net]

Pit Ruge

After studying photography at the Lette institute in Berlin, Pit stayed in the city for another 10 years. Today Pit lives in the open countryside near Stuttgart. In his open air studio he does fashion series, portraits, and
pictures of animals. In October 2005 he presented work at the Seoul design festival. During a fortnight in Seoul he took 5000 pictures. His directness enables him to transform encounters with strangers into pictures. [www.pitruge.de]

Tine Benz

Lives and works in Berlin. Masterdegree in fine Arts by Prof. Georg Baselitz.Works in the media painting, collage and tapeinstallation.
She showed her work in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Munic, Rotterdam, London, Istanbul,Seoul, New York, and Miami. [www.tinebenz.de]

Vogt+Weizenegger

The door handle is the pictured expression of the link between east and west, north and south.
The imprint of the original shoe has been reduced to the signs in the centre.
Their meaning (Long life, Happiness, Ticket) points out the metaphorical meaning of the handle. The handle functions like a medium for all the positive aspects of an exchange between different areas, cultures and lifestyles - to enter new areas of understanding - you swap the sides - and your perception opens a new room for your inner world. [www.vogtweizenegger.de]

Wibke Isenberg / Irene Hardjanegara

Shoe Highheel “same same but different”
Shoe Can “what you see is what you get”
[www.wibkeisenberg.de] [www.irenehardjanegara.com]