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Specialising in cardboard and utilising digital design and fabrication, Fold Theory aims to push the limits of cardboard engineering to realise forms and structures previously unimaginable. Environmental sustainability drives his practice.

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Welcome to Jacky Winter Fall/Winter '23. Each season a new artist creates original imagery using our site as their playground. The current artwork (above) comes from Cari Vander Yacht. Learn more about our seasonal model of representation and other FAQ.

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While the events of 2020-21 have reminded us that money isn't everything, they have certainly sent the economy into a tailspin. As a result, creative budgets have tightened, agencies have pulled back on recruitment, and even many experienced freelancers have experienced a drop in income.

But if money is tight, there is one silver lining. There's a seemingly endless supply of free resources out there, from apps to assets, that can save you cash and make you more productive.

That said, it's hard to sort the wheat from the chaff, so in this post, we at Shillington have brought together the best of the best. Read on to discover 50 fabulous design resources you can download for free (at time of writing).

Free Stock Images

As far as free stock photo sites go, we think Pexels is one of the best. With a community of photographers and videographers generously donating their work for everyone to download and use, royalty-free, it's also the first to respond to current affairs, providing the images we might need to illustrate our timely projects.

Known for its high-quality offering of free stock imagery, StockSnap has a whole host of different categories you can browse through, so you'll never struggle to find what you need. No credit is required but always welcome.

Landing Stock is a niche site providing free stock photos that are suitable for your website landing page. Created by London-based product designer Craig Barber, it features only high-quality, clean and minimalistic photos, that crop well and provide space for copy.

As creators, it's our duty to ensure our work is diverse and inclusive, representing the whole of society. Nappy is a relative newcomer to the free stock photo sites out there, bringing "beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people, for free".

Want a photo for your site that no one else has? Photo Creator from Icons8 allows you to combine different stock photos to create your own unique image. Combine objects, people, backgrounds and even images of your own using a browser-based drag-and-drop interface that's very quick and easy to use. We especially love the way you can add filters to your search.

Free Illustrations

Created by three recently graduated architecture students, Pimp My Drawing is a free source of people silhouettes for architects and designers. You can download free CAD blocks, illustrations and drawings in dwg and ai formats, and you don't even need to register.

In Humaaans, Pablo Stanley has created something quite special: modular, vector illustrations of humans that you can mix, match, rotate and position to create your own designs. Whatever you make is free for both commercial and personal use.

Describing itself as "open-source illustration for any idea you can imagine and create", unDraw is a constantly updated design project by Katerina Limpitsouni featuring beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution. We particularly love the ability to quickly add your own hex code to tailor the illustrations to your own projects.

Need something a little more hand-drawn? Open Peeps is the illustration library for you. Created by Pablo Stanley, the open-source flat SVG and PNG assets are available for Sketch, Figma, Studio and XD. You can even make a donation if you're able to support Pablo. A little goes a long way.

Storytale is a subscription-based stock illustration site. But if you don't want to pay, you can find a number of free illustrations here too, gathered together under the 'Freebies' tab. We particularly like their selection of vector illustrations for use on a 404 error page.

Free Icons

Co-founded by Sofya Polyakov, Edward Boatman and Scott Thomas, The Noun Project brings together over two million curated icons, created by a global community and available for use by designers for free.

Ionicons are premium icons for use by designers in web, iOS, Android and desktop apps. Built by the Ionic Framework team, they're all free and open source.

Started by Dan Leech, Simple Icons makes free SVG icons for popular brands available to download for free.

This fabulous resource courtesy of icons8.com gives you a whole library of free icons in PNG and SVG. They're on the ball, too, as they've just released a "coronavirus related searches" section for those of you requiring something very current.

Animaticons is a set of high-resolution animated GIFs that you can customise. They are small in file size, compatible with all major browsers, emails and smartphones and don't require any special plugins or libraries.

Free fonts

An intuitive and robust directory of open source web fonts for designers to use how they wish. All created to the high standards you'd expect from a web giant like Google.

Fontfabric is a digital type foundry that creates retail fonts and custom typography for various brands. Rather generously, they also provide a selection of free fonts for anyone to download and use. We love Nexa and Intro, but there are lots more to browse and sample on its nicely designed website.

Dafont is an enormous archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.

Another extensive archive of free fonts, all free for commercial use.

A personal selection of "classy, punk, professional, incomplete, and weird typefaces", Use & Modify provides open-source fonts that are free to use and...you guessed it, modify.

Free Stock Videos

Coverr is a source of beautifully shot stock videos that are free to download for commercial and non-commercial use, no attribution required.

Brought to you by Envato, Mixkit is a curated gallery of high-quality videos and animation, made by some of the world's most talented creators, with all content licensed for free.

Free HD stock footage and 4K videos courtesy of Videezy. Calling itself one of the largest video communities in the world, its collection is provided by its members - most is free to download and use, but there are some paid options, too, should you wish to extend your search.

Life of Vids offers free videos for web designers, filmmakers, advertisers, agencies, or anyone else who can make use of them. You can create infinite loops with most of them, and they're all available to download for both personal and commercial use.

Videvo offers a ton of free stock videos which can be used free of charge, in both personal and commercial productions. Video clips that carry the Creative Commons 3.0 license must be attributed to the original author.

Free Graphic Design Tools

It's easy to stick to the same old typeface combinations, time after time. But if your design work is starting to look stale as a result, here's a great way to change things up. Fontjoy draws on deep learning to generate new and original font pairings for you. The text is editable, so you can try replacing it with your client's name, or any other copy, to see how it works in practice.

Simple to use in the browser, with no downloads required, Canva is a surprisingly powerful and flexible graphic design tool. It's no InDesign, but it can do a lot of basic design tasks quite efficiently using drag and drop.

Gravit Designer is a full-featured vector graphic design app that works on all platforms. The free version comes with 500MB of cloud storage.

Created by a non-profit organisation, Inkscape is a professional quality vector graphics software that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. It's open-source and free to download.

Brandpad is a free tool that helps designers to create strong, conceptual and functional brand guidelines. This cloud-based platform enables you to do everything from asset creation to sharing and usage in one place. And we love how the site's own branding is totally neutral, so it doesn't get in the way of your own visual work.

Free Mockup Tools

Screely enables you to instantly turn a screenshot into a mockup, without the need for Sketch or Photoshop templates. Just upload your image and the app will do the rest.

LovelyMockups.com was founded in 2016 by two designers and start-up enthusiasts from Slovenia, and provides you with ready to use premium mockup templates, made with high-res photos, absolutely free. These templates are perfect for website banners, online portfolio, ppt presentations, social media, catalogs and billboards.

Want to show clients how your designs will look on a real-life device? Shooting your own photography is a lot of work, so MockDrop saves the bother by providing you with free stock photos of people holding devices with blank screens. Upload your screenshot, and it automatically gets added to the photo, ready for you to download. Genius!

Copy and paste a URL into Screenpeek and it will generate an attractive mockup in just 10 seconds. Created by Hans Pagel and Philipp Kuhn, this app is free for iPhone mockups only.

Founded by Shillington's Global Managing Director Anthony Wood, House of Mockups strives to provide the highest quality, realistic mockups and resources for Graphic Designers. The collection is just getting started, but bookmark this one for the place to go for free and premium mockups with outstanding art direction.

Free Image Editing Tools

Need to remove the background from a photo? This free tool can do it surprisingly quickly, and it just takes one click.

Created by Peter Assentorp, Social Sizes provides designers with the best sizes to use for image and video content on social media. Templates for Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop, are all included, and downloadable for free.

fotor isn't just a "design maker", it's a photo editor where you can crop, rotate, fine-tune, colour, resize or add effects to any image - all within your browser window. You can also create photo collages.

Pixel Editor has a long track record as a basic but reliable photo editor that's free to use within the browser. They've just released a new version, Pixel Editor X, which is faster, has more editing tools and integrates with Dropbox.

Free Screenshot Tools

This free Mac app makes it easy to capture parts of your screen and export them as Gifs or MP4 files. Capture GIFs up to 30 seconds long with just a couple of clicks.

This web and desktop application enables you to quickly grab screenshots and share the URLs with colleagues, as well as live, multi-person drawing and sketching.

This free and open-source application for Windows combines a screen, webcam and sketch board recorder with an integrated editor.

A lightweight, free and open-source tool for screen capture and file sharing, ShareX has benefited from over 11 years of active development by its community.

If you need to take a screenshot of an entire web page, here's a free app for that. This browser extension allows you to screengrab everything on the page, including both the part on your screen and the part below it, in a single click. Created by independent software developer Peter Coles, it's currently available for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Snappy is a workmanlike app for taking and collaborating on snapshots for iPhone, iPad and Mac. (A Windows version is "coming soon".)

Design Inspiration

Behance, part of the Adobe network, is a popular online platform to showcase and discover creative work, including art, illustration, graphic design, UI design and animation.

A beautifully designed website that shares some of the best creativity out there. It's a veritable curated feast of branding projects, packaging designs, and editorial features, offering support to those they feature and inspiration to the rest of the creative community.

Httpster is an inspiration resource showcasing website designs from all over the world. The emphasis is not on flashy features but a "less is more" approach to design.

Another popular and lively online community for showcasing creative work. While Behance is mainly completed work, Dribbble specialises in smaller snapshots (aka 'shots') of in-progress work.

When you see a typeface on a font foundry's website, it's often tricky to imagine how it will work in practice. So head to Fonts in Use, a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and period. Search for the font in question, and you'll be served up a selection of examples of how it's been used in practice, from graphic design to film and TV.
Good luck using these free resources on your future graphic design projects! Want to take your design career to the next level? Study design 3 months full-time or 9 months part-time at Shillington Online or On Campus in New York, London, Manchester, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane -> www.shillingtoneducation.com.

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While the events of 2020-21 have reminded us that money isn't everything, they have certainly sent the economy into a tailspin. As a result, creative budgets have tightened, agencies have pulled back on recruitment, and even many experienced freelancers have experienced a drop in income. But if money is tight, there is one silver lining.

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Creative brand, marketing and communication design for the education and knowledge sector.

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Studio Alto | Brand Design Agency in Melbourne

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The Design Museum is a multifaceted museum, an ever-changing space for the public, industry and education to come together and explore new ideas. Located in London, it's the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form.

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The NGV's Designing Women exhibition highlights the ongoing role of female designers as a dynamic and critical force in shaping contemporary design practice and culture. Spanning the years 1980 to 2018, it showcases over seventy works of design from the NGV Collection across diverse creative fields; all works are united by their female authorship.

The exhibition has four key narratives: Leadership, Community, Teamwork and Research. These overlapping stories offer fresh perspectives on the contributions women have made to the practice and profession of design over the past four decades. By focusing on the work, histories and achievements of designing women, the exhibition reveals that female designers, often overlooked in a male-dominated industry, are producing sophisticated, iconic and thought-provoking work.

Presenting an exhibition on the subject of women in design could be viewed as controversial as women, like men, want to be acknowledged for their professional contributions, ideas and output separately from their gender identity. On the other hand you might ask why, in the age of gender diversity and equal opportunity, is it still necessary to stage an all-female design exhibition?

By foregrounding the work of contemporary women designers in this exhibition we can draw attention to design's evolving history - and its role in shaping today's society.

Leadership

Historical stories of women in design are far less prominent than those of men, despite the contributions of women to the design and making of the material world. For women who gained access to art and design education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, social and professional biases typically resulted in the marginalisation of their careers and work. According to the ideals of the time, a woman's place was in the domestic sphere, and the business of design was deemed unsuitable for women. So-called feminine traits of gentleness, sensitivity and sweetness were considered incompatible with machinery, technology and the hyper-masculine image of industry.

Some women challenged this gender prejudice and formed a vanguard of change that pushed through these entrenched sociocultural notions. Fast forward to today and the results of their efforts are clear. Updated values within education and the design profession have drawn large numbers of women to the design field across diverse sectors. In this new paradigm, the visibility of female design leaders is seen as vital in sustaining gender equality and continuing to redress outdated attitudes. These designing women lead by example, creating an environment of inspiration, vision and entrepreneurship in their respective communities and on the international stage. But this perceptual shift in design as being inclusive and gender diverse has come slowly.

Community

The tendency for design to be viewed through the narrow lens of modernism has resulted in vast numbers of designing women being obscured from the historical record. Modernism principally emphasises style, technology and the creation of functional goods tied to the industries of Westernised nations. This narrow representation of design as solely a bedfellow of industry fails to acknowledge that design is in fact a diverse creative practice delivering both cultural and commercial outcomes.

The meaning of 'design' has evolved significantly over the past century. In its broadest sense it allows human beings to give material form to ideas, beliefs and values. Designer-makers contribute to the understanding of what 'design' means, and central to designer-maker production is the passing on of tacit knowledge through communities of practice.

Australia's Indigenous women mastered the passing down of design skills through a system of matrilineal knowledge transfer that stretches back thousands of years. Grandmothers, aunties, mothers, daughters and sisters together honed design technologies, reworked what had gone before and incorporated new materials and tools.

Sharing embodied knowledge acquired from personal experience and learning is vital in sustaining design practice.

Teamwork

An area of design history exposed to intense scrutiny over the past four decades has been the unsatisfactory recognition and recording of designing women in collaborative partnerships. Since the emergence of the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s, both Western design history and the design profession have been open to feminist critique. By asking the fundamental question, 'Where are all the women designers?', design historians set out to examine twentieth-century modernism from a feminist perspective, bringing consciousness to problematic issues of discrimination within the discipline. Consequently, the culture of contemporary design has benefited enormously from a re-evaluation of gender-driven narratives as well as those of class and ethnicity.

This work has helped highlight the stories of twentieth-century female designers like architect Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961), industrial designer Joyce Coffey (1918-2001) and interior and furniture designer Mary Featherston (b.1943-), who all experienced relative anonymity when co-designing with their better-known husbands.

Renewed interest in unearthing stories of women's participation in design has inspired a reappraisal of the concept of 'authorship'. Design benefits from the ideas and talents of multiple people, and teamwork underpins all design to lesser and greater degrees. Today it is finally considered best practice to acknowledge the contributions of all team members, including collaborators and manufacturers, shifting the narrative away from that of the sole creator.

Research

In Western democracies since the 1960s, there has been a steady upsurge in the number of women enrolling in design education.Jennifer Jones and Josie Castle, 'Women in Australian universities 1945-1980', University of Wollongong, 1983, p. 16, http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ291805.pdf, accessed 14 Sep. 2018. The social and cultural re-framing of the design profession as being more inclusive has expanded the scope of design and the issues it attempts to address.

Design research is both academic and practical, with designers investigating new processes, materials, systems and methods. It began in the industrialised nations of Europe in the mid twentieth century and has evolved in parallel to an array of industries, including arms production, space exploration, automotive manufacturing, consumer electronics and construction.

For the greater part of the twentieth century, design research, as mostly a male domain, was placed alongside science and engineering and was put to work in the interests of business and governments. Its critical function was to increase design's effectiveness in driving military prowess, international competitiveness and economic development. Design's significance now reaches far across social, economic, ecological and cultural spheres. Consequentially, the field of design research - and with that the importance of female design researchers - has expanded exponentially.

Today there are diverse trajectories of design research, just as there is a diversity of designers. Through the lens of gender diversity designers investigate possibilities, speculate on future scenarios and test propositions. Driven by curious and creative minds, the expanding field of design research embraces notions of design in its broadest sense and delves into many different modes of research, experimentation and speculation.

Contemporary design is the product of human ideals being questioned, challenged and transformed. The work and practices of the fifty-five women designers in the NGV exhibition Designing Women reveals that the continuation of this tradition is key to unlocking the true power and potential of design.

Bibliography

Canli, Ece, 'Design history interrupted: a queer-feminist perspective', in Marjanne van Helvert (ed.), The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future, Valiz, Amsterdam, 2016, pp 191-8.

Edquist, Harriet, 'Joyce Coffey (1918-2001): industrial designer', RMIT Design Archives Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, RMIT Design Archives, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2012.

Fuad-Luke, Alastair, Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World, Earthscan, London, 2009.

Jose, Jane, Places Women Make: Unearthing the Contribution of Women to Our Cities, Wakefield Press, Mile End, South Australia, 2016.

Kirkham, Pat (ed.), The Gendered Object, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1996

McQuiston, Liz, Women in Design, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1988.

Sellers, Libby, Women Design, Quarto Publishing, London, 2017.

Sparke, Penny, As Long as It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste, Pandora, London, 1995.

Stratigakos, Despina, Where Are the Women Architects?, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2016.

Walker, John A. (ed.), Design History and the History of Design, Pluto Press, London, 1989.

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On logos, symbols, icons, and marks, with the accompanying book available in thirteen languages.

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In this resource, students will investigate the product design process used to develop Great Wrap’s Nudie Roll, a home-compostable stretch wrap, and the Great Mate dispenser that accompanies it.

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VCE Product Design
In this resource, students will investigate the product design process used to develop Great Wrap 's Nudie Roll , a home- compostable stretch wrap, and the Great Mate dispenser that accompanies it.

Both products are featured on the Design Wall in the special exhibition Melbourne Now . This series of six videos and classroom discussion questions help prompt student learning and engagement with the de s igners' creative process, from inspiration to product evaluation .

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Identify key steps in the design process that led to the development, production, evaluation and refinement of Great Wrap's stretch wrap and dispenser.

Outline Great Wrap's end users and discuss how the company's products meet the needs and values of this audience.

Discuss the environmental and social considerations that influenced the development of the Nudie Roll and the Great Mate stretch wrap dispensers.

INTRODUCTION TO GREAT WRAP AND MELBOURNE NOW

Great Wrap was founded in 2019 by couple Julia and Jordy Kay, a former architect and winemaker respectively. With the help of bio-designers, engineers and scientists, Julia and Jordy developed a compostable stretch wrap derived from potato waste. When composted, the stretch wrap breaks down in 180 days and leaves no microplastics behind. Designed for domestic use, Great Wrap's Nudie Rolls are dispensed from the Great Mate , a refillable container designed in 2021 in collaboration with industrial designers Bayly Group. Great Wrap also produce compostable pallet wrap for commercial business use.

The exhibition Melbourne Now celebrates new and ambitious local art and design and highlights the extraordinary work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios and firms. It includes a range of disciplines, from fashion and jewellery to painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing.

INTRODUCTION TO GREAT WRAP VIDEOS

In the following six videos, Julia and Jordy discuss what inspired them to establish Great Wrap and develop their s tretch wrap . The y describe the steps involved in creating the potato waste-based material used to produce the wrap and discuss key steps in the design process that informed the development and refinement of this ground-breaking product. They explain the importance of the end user in the design process and highlight the significance of their collaboration with Bayly Group designers . They also share their thoughts on what makes Melbourne a great city for designing and engineering and describe the tools, materials and partnerships that make their operation possible. These videos and accompanying discussion questions can be viewed sequentially or individually and can be used in the classroom or by students for independent study.

Creative Practice: Great Wrap

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Describe Great Wrap's product range. What problems does each product address, and how do they solve them?

2. Consider the steps in the design process. How did Julia and Jordy Kay follow this process when developing their compostable stretch wrap and dispenser? How did each step inform the next?

3. Describe the role of sustainability in Great Wrap's practice. Consider the ideas that prompted the development of the Nudie Rolls and the Great Mate dispenser, and the materials and processes involved in their development and production.

4. Describe the appearance of the Great Mate stretch wrap dispenser. How have aesthetic considerations informed the design of this product? Think about the design elements and principles when generating your answer.

5. In the video 'Design Process, Development and Evaluation', Julia explains the importance of customer feedback in the design process. What feedback did Great Wrap receive from customers about the functionality of their stretch wrap, and how did this feedback influence their practice?

6. In the video 'Collaboration', Jordy and Julia describe the factors that make Melbourne a world-class city for product design and technological development. What are these factors, and how have they contributed to Great Wrap's success? What role does each factor play in maintaining Melbourne's reputation as a creative and innovative city?

7. How does Great Wrap's practice make you feel about how you approach product design? What have you learned that you might apply to your own design practice?

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Once upon a time, graphic design blogs were all about eye candy. But while there's nothing wrong with that, recent years have seen more and more blogs that delve a little deeper.

Nowadays, if you want to see the latest design work, find out who created it, what the challenges were and how they overcame them, there's a blog for that. Consequently, if you just want a quick blast of eye candy to inspire you visually, you're well catered for as well. Indeed, there are so many graphic design blogs out there right now; it's difficult to know which ones to pay the most attention to.

This is where we step in to help. We at Shillington reached out to all our Design Teachers, students and graduates to find out their favourite design blogs to bring you our top 50 recommendations to follow.

1. Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo is a collective of individual writers sharing articles about architecture, design, photography and UX. Founded by Brazilian designer Fabio Sasso in 2006, it's particularly strong on 3D work, which doesn't get much attention from most design blogs.

2. Design Week

Founded in 1986, Design Week was the UK's leading design magazine until 2011, when it became online-only. It continues to bring you high quality, well-written news and inspiration across graphics, branding, interiors, digital, product, furniture and more.

3. Creative Boom

Creative Boom celebrates, inspires and supports the creative community and has an excellent section on graphic design to give you loads of inspiration. The magazine also features insightful interviews with some of the world's leading designers- Paula Scher being a recent example.

4. Mirador

Mirador is the image-based blog curated by Say What Studio, a graphic design duo based in Paris, France. It draws together many inspirational works out there and pulls them together in a beautifully designed, Tumblr-style feed of visual inspiration.

5. Telepathy

Telepathy has spent nearly 20 years helping startups and brands craft meaningful experiences for their customers. It shares the lessons it's learned on its UX-focused blog, with intriguing articles such as 'How to handle inspiration overload' and 'Using the Internet of Things to extend your brand essence'.

6. Creative Review

Founded in 1980, Creative Review is the world's leading monthly magazine for advertising, design and visual culture. And the same high-quality journalism that informs it carries through to its website, which features a range of news, reviews and features from the creative world.

7. The Dieline

For anyone working in packaging design, The Dieline has it all wrapped up. It's basically the Bible of the sector: a place where the community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends, and check out design projects being created in the field.

8. Made by Folk

Founded in 2007 by a group of young designers and vagabonds eager to collect and share the best design work they came across, FormFiftyFive soon became an international showcase of creative work. They have since been renamed Made by Folk and added more interactive elements to exchange and store ideas more easily, extending it from design blog to collaborative platform.

9. Eye Magazine

Eye Magazine, the international review of graphic design, is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture. Its associated blog features a range of critical, informed writing about design and visual culture.

10. I Love Typography

I Love Typography covers everything from typography and type history to making fonts, and everything in between, including printmaking to book history and occasionally calligraphy. The work of John Boardley, author of "Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing", it's all carefully crafted, authoritative stuff.

11. Identity Designed

This clean and elegant blog, Identity Designed, by David Airey is a showcase of the best brand identities worldwide. It's just one of the many successful design blogs that he runs. Also see number 37 on our list.

12. Shillington Design Blog

Shillington is a college network offering an innovative approach to design education based on short, intensive courses and practical, industry-focused learning. And it has its own blog too, Shillington Design Blog features a range of inspiring design work and insightful articles. You should know that, though-you're already here!

13. Under Consideration: Brand New

Under Consideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives and content, while taking on a limited amount of client work. Its Brand New blog is well-known for chronicling and providing opinions on, corporate and brand identity work. It's edited and written by Armin Vit.

14. Browser London

Browser London is a digital agency that not only does impressive work for clients but has also successfully developed and taken to market its own digital tools and web apps. This blog is full of ideas and insights taken from these experiences, with topics including 'The rise of dark mode in UI design' and 'What dependency hell looks like, and how to avoid it'.

15. Print.pm

The brainchild of Parisian art director Martin Joubert, Print.pm provides a daily burst of inspiration for lovers of editorial print design, mainly based around the latest arty-looking books and magazines.

16. UX Collective

Medium-based blog UX Collective pulls together various insightful articles from designers working at the coalface of user experience. There's some excellent advice on offer here, about everything from empathy mapping to icon design principles.

17. The Dsgn Blog

The Dsgn Blog is all about visual inspiration. Founded, designed and curated by Ena Baćanović, a designer based in Zagreb, Croatia, it features the work of designers and design studios from all over the world, putting the main focus on young designers and students.

18. Google Design

This design-focused blog is full of interesting articles and news updates from the world of design. Yes, there's a lot about Google's products and services, and you'll also find fascinating posts such as 'Lessons From the Scariest Design Disaster in American History' and 'How to make ambient computing work-for people'.

19. BP&O

BP&O stands for Branding, Packaging and Opinion, and it delivers on all of these things, with a combination of inspiring imagery and in-depth analysis. It's the brainchild of Richard Baird, a British freelance designer and writer who specialises in brand identities and packaging.

20. Design Clever

Design Clever is a collaboration started by Jonathan Ring and Bethany Baker, two aspiring graphic designers with a passion for everything design-related. This blog was created to showcase talented designers worldwide and they encourage creatives everywhere to submit their work to it.

21. This Too Shall Grow

This Too Shall Grow is a French UX studio focusing on protecting users' mental health and privacy, pushing for transparency and avoiding dark patterns. Its blog looks at tech in general, UX in particular, and their impact on psychology, mental health and society.

22. Fonts In Use

Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, and industry. An independent project led by Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles and Nick Sherman, it documents and examines graphic design intending to improve typographic literacy and appreciation.

23. Masterpicks

Are you looking for inspiration from real-world projects? Masterpicks has you covered. This image-led blog presents you with a new, hand-picked design project every day, across UX and UI design, illustration, animation, 3D art, graphic design, branding, industrial design and photography.

24. Frank Chimero

Veteran designer Frank Chimero shares his thoughts regularly on his much-visited blog, and they're very much worth reading. Jumping between the internet, design, writing, music, film, self-development and work culture, his posts are beautifully written and always relevant.

25. Creative Bloq

Creative Bloq features advice, interviews and reviews on graphic design, branding, web design, animation, VFX and digital art. It also posts daily news from the creative industry, ranging from fun to serious.

26. Spotify Design

Who knew Spotify had a design blog? Well, it does, and it's a corker. Although it's narrowly focused on the company's operations, posts such as 'How Spotify organises work in Figma to improve collaboration' contains many helpful pointers for designers and design agencies in general.

27. Wix Creative

Wix is a cloud-based platform for creating your website, and its blog offers inspiration, tips and resources for creatives everywhere. It includes professional step-by-step guides to walk you through everything from colour theory to make a mood board.

28. Dribbble

Enabling creatives to share their work long before Instagram was dreamt of, Dribbble is a design industry institution. Its related blog is packed with practical advice to boost your career, such as forming good habits and getting out of a bad design feedback loop.

29. Design Made In Japan

Japanese culture has a vast global influence right now, and Design Made In Japan is the perfect place to stay updated with its design output. There's a wealth of editorial, product and packaging design on show, and even a design jobs board for those wanting to work in Japan.

30. Mindsparkle

Mindsparkle magazine promotes the "most beautiful and inspiring projects" in the fields of graphic design, web design and video. With a clean and satisfying design of its own, it'll become a daily inspiration and you can rely on the founders to only share the very best.

31. Album Colours of the Year 2020

Here's an offbeat source of visual inspiration that might be just the left-field perspective you've been looking for. It's a collection of 150 album covers to celebrate the colours used in record cover art in 2020. A compelling source of eye candy and palette inspiration, whichever year you view it in.

32. It's Nice That

Beautifully designed, industry-led and one of the best resources for keeping abreast of art, illustration and graphic design everywhere, It's Nice That continues to be one of our favourite online publications.

33. Designer News

Describing itself as "where the design community meets", Designer News pulls in the latest exciting posts from around the web, from Behance and Medium to individual designers' websites. The community then upvotes and downvotes them and adds their comments.

34. Codrops

Codrops is a web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities. If you like what you see, sign up for the excellent newsletter to keep updated regularly.

35. Httpster

Just want to browse delicious web design? Httpster is precisely what you need. It's an inspiration resource showcasing "totally rocking websites" made by designers everywhere. As with all trends, you don't need to copy them, but it's helpful to know what they are.

36. Siteinspire

Siteinspire is another showcase of the latest and greatest web designs. Updated frequently, it's a great place to keep in touch with the most recent interactive design trends and get ideas and inspiration for your creations.

37. Logo Design Love

Another beautifully designed blog by David Airey, Logo Design Love focuses on logo designs from around the world. It's a nicely curated showcase for the latest logos and featuring reviews and commentary around related work, such as logo design books.

38. The Inspiration Grid

The Inspiration Grid is an online magazine celebrating creative talent worldwide, providing a daily fix of art, illustration, typography, photography and, of course, graphic design. It has a clean, appealing design and everything is easy to find-one of our favourites.

39. Visuelle

David Bennett curates inspiring projects from graphic designers worldwide. There's no commentary (the images link through to the original site), but it's compelling visual eye-candy throughout. Add this to your bookmarks for reliable content daily.

40. Onextrapixel

Are you getting into web design? This excellent blog strives to share the best web resources for those of you passionate about pixels. It looks at trends, the best fonts, recommended templates for WordPress and much more.

41. AIGA: Eye on Design

The AIGA, otherwise known as The Professional Association for Design, has a beautiful blog called Eye on Design which is bursting with design inspiration. With contributors from around the world, you'll never be bored with its varied content.

42. Visual Journal

Curated by Alessandro Scarpellini, a designer and art director from Italy, Visual Journal brings together the best branding and graphic design projects worldwide. There's very little in the way text here, but lots and lots of beautiful images to drool over.

43. Webflow Blog

Webflow is a product used to create websites visually without coding. Whether or not you're using Webflow yourself, its blog is packed with excellent articles on broader subjects around web design and UX and is well worth a visit.

44. Ambalaj

Founded by Swedish designer Kristina de Verdier in 2008, Ambalaj is predominantly a packaging design blog, but it also tends to share the latest design innovations.

45. Design by Womxn

Founded by UK-based graphic designer Mary Hemingway, Design by Womxn aims to showcase, champion and support female creatives currently working in the design industry and to inspire women who want to pursue a career in design. One to add to your feed.

46. 8Faces

The official blog of 8 Faces magazine, it features inspirational typography, beautiful lettering, reviews, interviews with leading designers and much more. Curated by Jamie Clarke and Elliot Jay Stocks.

47. Swissmiss

Swissmiss is the work of Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss designer in New York who also founded and today runs Tattly, CreativeMornings and TeuxDeux. It's packed with visual inspiration, some of which can be quite offbeat, but never dull.

48. Design Taxi

With its own section dedicated to graphic design, Design Taxi is a good shout to keep abreast of industry news, trends and updates. Its posts don't go into a lot of depth but cover a wide breadth of topics. So it's great for getting an overview of what's going on in general.

49. SideBar

Want to keep track of everything going on in web design right now, but don't have time to subscribe to a thousand different blogs? SideBar saves you the bother by curating the best posts daily and delivering you five relevant links a day, which is much more manageable.

50. This is Paper

This is Paper is a beautiful blog, and print magazine focused on creativity, with a section devoted to print design. There's also a very popular mixtapes section where you can enjoy listening to some beats while working.
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Sneakers, and the entire athletic industry along with it, would be pretty boring were it not for the inventive imagination, relentless drive towards improved performance, and raw aesthetic talents of Tinker Hatfield.

Oft nicknamed "The Architect," Tinker is more than just an artist that draws up shoes - he's gone on to become the architect of Nike's brand look now four decades. The mind behind the original Air Max lineup, the creator behind the entire Cross-Training category as we know it, and of course, unmistakably, the equal-parts-GOAT counterpart to Michael Jordan in creating the Air Jordan series' most iconic models, Hatfield is undeniably the footwear industry's most accomplished visionary.

To celebrate Tinker's 69th birthday today, the Nice Kicks team tallied up our favorite Hatfield designs through his illustrious career. From iconic signature models that have laid the framework for a multi-billion dollar brand, to cult tennis favorites and even a few oddities in between, check out our 30 favorite Tinker-tailored kicks below.

30. Air Jordan XX8

Design can point to a new direction a company is looking towards, or simply often represent an era and a period of time through a repetitive approach. The XX8 was the perfect response to the overly synthetic and increasingly busy designs of the early 2010s, with it's fully shrouded upper and targeted carbon fiber support wedges giving it a sleeker stance and dramatic silhouette.

At Michael's specific request, the shoe took on a "stealth" aesthetic. First debuting in its recognizable all-black edition on the feet of then-newly-signed Russell Westbrook, it would later feature everything from fully printed text uppers to graphic patterns tying back to several of the brand's key NCAA schools.
- Nick DePaula

29. Nike Zoom Vapor 9 Tour

Many designers view themselves as problem solvers. Time-tested and well-proven in the art of war with pencil and paper, Tinker Hatfield took to modern weapons to help Roger Federer in the war against fatigue and boring style, in a sport that was getting younger and more competitive, but aesthetically less interesting.

So, what was Tinker's new weapon of choice in a time of a new athlete and new tech? The Apple iPad. Sketching the Nike Zoom Vapor 9 Tour in real time with real input, Federer was able to tell Tinker just what to change both stylistically and functionally. The result? A bold, bright, and light tennis shoe that led the Swiss sensation to a Wimbledon W over Andy Murray. Problem solved.
- Ian Stonebrook

28. Nike Air Tech Challenge III

Long before Federer looked to shake things up with more flair on the court through his sneakers, Tinker helped to revolutionize the look of the sport in the early 90s through the style and brashness of Vegas-born rising star Andre Agassi. The Tech Challenge series perfectly encapsulated Agassi's rebel approach, with highlighter bright neons, a scorchingly fast tennis ball graphic along the heel, and head-to-toe matching looks that brought the disruption full circle.
- Nick DePaula

27. Nike Air Mowabb

Man, Tinker, can you let these other designers live? If it wasn't enough to create categories, a collab with the greatest athlete of our era and debut visible Air, the man with the pen stepped outside - literally and figuratively - and made the most memorable ACG model ever. Yup, deriving from the same sock styling as his Huarache favorites, the Nike Air Mowabb still reigns as the funkiest and most favorited silo from the always evolving All Conditions Gear series.

Performance-driven in design, the lightweight hiker has seen crossover success over many a retro run, always navigating new paths. Give it up for Tinker as he appealed to both backpackers and ballers, thirteen years before Kanye released The College Dropout.
- Ian Stonebrook

26. Jordan Trunner

A hybrid of the words training and runner - people didn't really know what to make of the initial Jordan Trunner when it first launched in 1999 during the infancy of the Jordan Brand and its expanding range of footwear. With an aggressive v-silhouette along the collar and a full mesh sleeve tongue, most of the shoe's lockdown came from its molded midfoot and collar support panels.

The shoe also featured protective Max Air in the heel, along with some seriously springy Zoom Air in the forefoot, making for one of the most purely comfortable shoes you could ever throw on. Originally released in just a Bulls-esque white/black/red, along with a bright blue and black makeup, and the more refreshing alligator olive colorway, the Trunner was a classic exercise in Tinker design. There was a new take on performance design, a random and quirky colorway option, and a daring aesthetic that blurred the lines between what a trainer-slash-runner could even be.
- Nick DePaula

25. Nike HTM2 Run Boot Low

As the 'T' part of the brand's HTM collective, alongside Japanese designer Hiroshi Fujiwara and Nike CEO Mark Parker, the trio became known for their quirky collaborative takes on both original silhouettes and new looks alike. Along the way, they added a second 'M' - Mark Smith - and the oft-forgotten Run Boot Low perhaps best represented their shared approach to minimalism and comfort.

The neoprene sleeved slip-on sneaker featured targeted collar padding to help give you some structure, along with a perforated upper overlay, a reinforced toe and a hand-sprayed Swoosh, making for a clean and modern look atop a great kick-around sneaker.
- Nick DePaula

24. Air Jordan XX3

As Michael Jordan entered into the depths of roundball retirement for reals - or so we thought - the newly coined Jordan Brand continued the line in a direction of hoop luxury that was as aspirational as it was technical. Models like the Air Jordan XVI, Air Jordan XVII, and even Air Jordan XX1 would be more associated with an immortalized MJ who was in a category all his own: a living legend with an aura who reigned sovereignly over the game he both loved, left, and came back to as a court king in velour tracksuits and CEO in tailored business suits. Playing to positioning and toting tech, said shoes would pack a price point to match such esteem. Sadly for sales or even intended function, the bells and whistles associated with such silos were often deemed too nice, too expensive, and too hard to break in to actually ball in.

While Tinker perhaps best optimized the idea of a modern luxury basketball shoe on the Air Jordan XI, the Air Jordan XX3 still is and forever will be the grown man Jordan. Made with the craftsmanship and class that mirrored that of the greatest the game has ever seen, this tribute take will be remembered by collectors for its amazing marketing rollout, but will be immortalized for its attention to detail and design. Sleek, progressive, and elevated - just like Mike's game - this was a signature shoe in every sense, down to the John Hancock on the toe box.

With loyalty and royalty inside his DNA, the thumbprint on the underside of the tongue predated iPhone access, and truth be told a remastered retro will probably never do this shoe a true justice - save the Trophy Room collab, bravo. At the end of the day, the Air Jordan XX3 was both an event and a worthy shoe that could've easily capped off a storybook series just as perfectly as the Last Shot.
- Ian Stonebrook

23. Nike Air Oscillate

Tinker Hatfield didn't always have every athlete clamoring to wear his sneaker designs. Not only did he have to woo Pete Sampras into the Nike Air Oscillate, a shoe that he wore and dominated in for almost a decade, he actually had to trick him into it. Now, this wasn't because the design was bad or Sampras didn't like the shoe, he was just fine with the Nike sneakers he was currently wearing. As the legend goes, Tinker challenged Pete to a game of basketball and slyly gave him a pair of shoes to wear in the contest. Pete instantly loved the cushioning and responsiveness and would go on to wear the Oscillate throughout the remainder of his career, winning many more major championships along the way.

Mastery is often relegated to singularity. Not Tinker. He designed all-time great basketball, tennis, running, and track and field sneakers. As evident by the models worn by both Agassi and Sampras, the models could also live on opposite ends of the spectrum too. His belief that anyone with a body is an athlete allowed him to step outside of those confines and design for all sports, all people.
- Darren Griffin

22. Nike Air Tech Challenge II

If the Oscillate became the most recognized, and albeit, fairly tame model worn by Pete Sampras, then the radiant pink and gradient fading Air Tech Challenge 2 without question perfectly represented Andre Agassi.

With overlays and a rubberized lace eyelet along the collar serving as the foundation of support, in a way similar to the Air Jordan IV just before it, the shoe was classic Tinker. There was an athlete that captured and owned the spirit of the design and iconic colorways and graphics that defined the sport's era. The fact that the tooling later became the foundation for the equally iconic Air Yeezy 2? Well, that's just a bonus of course.
- Nick DePaula

21. Air Jordan XX

We wouldn't go as far as to say that taking risks was easy when Mike was playing, because he sure was a good guy to bet on. Patent leather on a sneaker? Dainty before, but dope if you're winning rings. Fuzzy branding on a tongue? Juvenile excess in reality, but a pop culture success when you're getting buckets with Bugs. So, while all Jordans were a hit when Jordan was hitting shots in them, how bold could you really go when he wasn't making them cool by making memories on the court? You needed a hitmaker and you needed some guts. Yup, you needed Tinker.

And Hatfield it was. Following the very safe anniversary iteration that was the Air Jordan X, the Air Jordan XX had to be a major moment, because two decades of flight had to be better and bolder than one - even if it meant taking a risk. Still it was a risk, and probably a scary one at that. Calling in Tinker after sitting out the last four Jordans, it would be crazy to go wild on such an anticipated comeback after his last design for Mike - AJ XV - was so panned. Right?

Wrong. Going for the gusto and even throwing off the fugazis - the also-celebratory Dub Zero was originally dubbed the Decoy to bait fakers and leakers - the real deal Air Jordan XX was the brashest model made for Mike since the 11. Would the internets or first day fans love it upon first look? Nooooo. But still, Tinker and team were right and the XX was greatness.

Propelled by technical innovation like every amazing AJ, the XX featured a polarizing ankle strap that offered the wearer the feel of a low top or a high depending on how they wore it. On top of that or actually below, podular IPS cushioning was good on court and far more accessible and aesthetically interesting than that of previous models.

The real kicker though? Storytelling. Years before we were sold shoes based off athlete's favorite sandwiches or court accomplishments that hadn't yet happened, Tinker teamed up with Mark Smith and Spike Lee to tell the tale of the greatest hooper to ever hit the hardwood via Laser technology and an amazing ad campaign. Relying on a real past with real tech and real friends, it really wasn't a risk at all. Trust Tinker.
- Ian Stonebrook

20. Nike Zoom Talaria

One of the many Tinker designs blessed with the ever-popular Nike "phone number" ads, the Zoom Talaria was born after the creation of Tensile Air, better known as Zoom Air, in 1995. In 1997, the Nike Zoom Talaria blended the industry's best new cushioning technology with bottom-loaded Zoom Air and flex grooves in the forefoot, making for a plush ride unlike anything before it.

Tinker also got creative with the build, outfitting the shoe with a breathable base topped by synthetic suede overlays. This shoe, in many ways, also gave viability to the "Tennis Ball" theme, as its Neon Yellow OG colorway was rich in color with a standout look.
- Darren Griffin

19. Nike Air Flight Huarache [with Eric Avar]

After an insight came to Tinker while water skiing, of all things, the neoprene-based foundation of Huarache was established, making way for a new fit-focused innovation in the initial running shoe that's still been a favorite all these years later. Just after designing the runner, Hatfield worked in tandem with young designer Eric Avar on a basketball adaptation, which became none other than the Flight Huarache.

"What was cool about the basketball shoe was that the Fab 5 at the University of Michigan were given these shoes, and they all wore them. They thought they were great," Hatfield recalls. "This shoe developed a life of its own partly because there was no basketball shoe that ever looked like that before it, and these guys all at the University of Michigan were all wearing them - it was an explosion after that."

While much of the credit can be given to the feet of the Fab 5 and their dominant influence of the early 90s, the shoe's classic design featuring a white leather upper and quirky neoprene accent colors was still all Tinker.
- Nick DePaula

18. Nike Air Safari

The Air Safari is admittedly a fairly formulaic design on the surface. A few of the lines even draft rather directly from the Air Max 1 just before it. But, running shoes at that time didn't come in a mostly black upper. Or feature huge allotments of orange. They definitely didn't incorporate what has become one of the more iconic Nike prints, as the Safari's pebbled grey and black patterning has gone on to establish the shoe as a modern design classic of the 90s.

Even still, we often see new releases from Nike that feature the print, whether it's new takes on classic running silhouettes or even futuristic soccer cleats that give new life to their forward-thinking silhouettes.
- Nick DePaula

17. Nike Air Huarache Trainer

The cross-training counterpart to the Huarache concept's running and basketball models didn't veer too much from the idea, as the neoprene sleeved tongue still provided conforming comfort for foot shapes of all sizes. Tinker also designed a midfoot overlay that offered more support, which worked in tandem with a midfoot strap for added lockdown. While the category was then still in its infancy, Hatfield's Trainer Huarache design has long set the blueprint for how trainers can look.
- Nick DePaula

16. Air Jordan 14

With inspiration drafting from none other than a Ferrari, the XIV represented Michael's ability to careen around screens, brake in an instant, and harness so much explosive force into his attacks - much like the automobile industry's pre-eminent sports car.

The collar logo took cues from the iconic Ferrari shield, with additional wordmark and typeface inspiration throughout. Of course, worn during Michael's final game and historic "last shot" as a Chicago Bull, the XIV perhaps offered up the most targeted and sleekened stance of any game shoe that MJ donned on the court.
- Nick DePaula

15. Nike Air 180

Michael Jordan didn't always exclusively wear Jordans. There were times when he wore other Nike designs, most of which were designed by the man who turns 65 today. MJ even sometimes sat his feet in runners, as is the case with the Nike Air 180.

In 1992 during that historic summer in Barcelona, when not towering over the competition on the court, playfully dominating on the golf course, or roaming the Olympic Village with his teammates, Jordan was seen cruising the European city in the "Concord" 180s. A break from on-court wears of the Air Jordan 7 "Olympic," Jordan opted for the mixed material comfort of nylon and neoprene, a juxtaposition far ahead of its time and long before anyone even thought to use words like athleisure. Tinker is a futurist at heart, forecasting what we'll want to wear for years, even decades to come.
- Darren Griffin

14. Air Jordan 13

After designing ten signature shoes for His Airness, you'd think Hatfield would've exhausted all of his most personal stories and details connected to Michael. In fact, the Air Jordan XIII is perhaps the most personal of them all, leaning on MJ's guarded nickname, used by only his closest associates - The Black Cat.

With a podular outsole that mimicked the paws of a panther, the shoe also innovated in both materials and construction, like the 3M-mesh upper, the suede-wrapped midsole and the hologram logo icon along the heel.
- Nick DePaula

13. Air Jordan 12

Following up the instant classic Air Jordan XI was no small task, and while many expected the brand to continue on with a similar look or style, that was the last thing on Tinker Hatfield's mind. He, of course, often talked about zigging while others zag, so the XII featured a rich full-grain leather upper, with bold overlays that made for an unmistakable court block.

With Michael's 72-10 season just before it, and another championship ring added to his legacy, the XII held back no punches, declaring "Quality Inspired By The Greatest Player Ever" along with the heel tab.
- Nick DePaula

12. Nike Air Raid

Before Battlegrounds, barbershops sold mixtapes or even EBC, streetball was born to boom commercially thanks to movies like White Men Can't Jump and Above the Rim. While Reebok would reign in said space during the mid '90s and the Trash Talk tees and Skip Tape from AND1 would eventually bring it back at the turn of the century, the subculture of hoops didn't officially have its own shoe until Tinker created it in 1992.

The Nike Air Raid was made just for the asphalt. Heck, it was actually offensive to wear indoors as it'd leave a mark more permanently on the court than any elbow to the jaw or sunlit poster thanks to its rugged rubber outsole. But, that was just the foundation. Strapped like Hustling Raymond after getting got by Sidney and Billy but keeping the peace on its afrocentric follow-up, the Air Raid held down outdoor hoopers in every since. Like any king of the park, it looked tough because it actually was tough.

Still relevant today, the Nike Air Raid is appreciated on the playgrounds of US and in Paris by Pigalle. High fashion or high heat, the Air Raid reigns as THE outdoor basketball shoe even as tech evolves in the game with no ref.
- Ian Stonebrook

11. Air Jordan 5

Is Tinker Hatfield a sneakerhead or is he the reason we are sneakerheads? We're gonna agree with the former but lean more towards the latter.

While anyone born after Tinker linked with Nike respectfully rendered their own kick creations based off the designs and culture Hatfield created, Tinker didn't look at something already existing in said space in an attempt to make something new in the same field. An architect by education and an athlete by choice, Tinker found inspiration in design off success in structure and speed much like Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. studied Gandhi to solve social issues in nonviolent matters. A stretch in analogy? Sure but a strength just the same.

Drawing literally and figuratively from a World War II Mustang Fighter Plane, the Air Jordan 5 would propel and equip Michael Jordan in sky high battle against the Detroit Pistons. The shark tooth midsole was a nod to the muse, but that was merely the launching pad for the innovation and iconography that would take place. Branding genius like a 3M tongue would literally illuminate the Jumpman logo as Getty Image photographers snapped the GOAT, while the introduction of an ice blue bottom would have traction in both a technical and aesthetic sense.
- Ian Stonebrook

10. Air Jordan 6

I remember seeing Creed in theaters back in 2015. The spinoff of the Rocky series follows Adonis Creed who was the son of Apollo Creed, Rocky rival turned training partner and ultimately best friend. Michael B. Jordan, the films' leading man, wore the Air Jordan 6 "Black/Infrared" in multiple scenes throughout the picture. During one in particular, he's training in the streets of South Philadelphia while native son Meek Mill scores the movie during this pivotal point of Jordan's character development. The camera cuts to wide lens angles to include Jordan's shoes in all their glory, while also ensuring his head-to-toe Jordan Brand sweatsuit equally in full view.

In that moment the film was anchored in historical context. The music, the wheelied bikes, and of course, the Air Jordan 6. The shoe had done the same in decades prior in White Men Can't Jump, as a youthful Kadeem Hardison donned that very same shoe with MJ's Chicago Bulls jersey in tow. Tinker Hatfield was not just influencing sneaker culture at this point; he was driving global culture. Films, commercials, advertisement, all hinged upon the designs of one man. That's ultimately what set Tinker apart. He wasn't just designing sneakers, he was diagramming popular culture.
- Darren Griffin

9. Nike Air Trainer SC III (aka Trainer SC)

After creating a category with the Nike Air Trainer 1, Tinker Hatfield had the tall order of producing a sequel that once again appealed to an audience of athletes that ranged all ages and all abilities.

Tough crowd, huh? Casting Bo Jackson as the star, the Nike Air Trainer SC was a shoe designed for the demands of the world's greatest and most versatile athlete, thus making it good enough for everybody beneath his abilities - yup, everyone.

Scored by sailcloth that would go onto inspire Flywire technology two decades later, the shoe would not only carry on the success of the category, it would help the Auburn athlete that endorsed it become a blossoming star in a sports brand that was more and more about signature stories and charisma campaigns.

Since its time, no physical specimen has been able to fill Bo's shoes as the OG ad alludes to. Just the same, no designer has proved as versatile as Tinker.
- Ian Stonebrook

* Editor's note: The Nike Air Trainer SC III was mistakenly titled the Nike Air Trainer SC when it was re-released as a retro creating confusion for when the Nike Air Trainer SC was retroed and then adopted the title Nike Air Trainer III

8. Nike Air Max 90

Originally dubbed the Nike Air Max III, Tinker Hatfield had one of his biggest non-Jordan commercial successes with the Air Max 90. Multiple retro releases of the shoe have followed since its inception more than 25 years ago, and its OG "Infrared" colorway has become synonymous with sneaker culture. The build was slightly higher than the Air Max 1, and the Air Unit was a bit more exaggerated.

A chameleon of sorts, no matter the material, fabric, or re-imagined frame, the 90 has been able to adapt and live in different spaces, different eras, and remain special to the audience that saw its birth along with the population that inherited it. Truly the mark of a transcendent shoe.
- Darren Griffin

7. Nike Air Huarache

If you think "sneaker inspired by a water ski boot," it's understandable you'd envision something potentially hideous and overbuilt. Luckily, one of Tinker's greatest traits is taking a bigger inspiration or design cue, and tailoring that into a beautiful-looking product. The Huarache is yet another example, with the inspiration mostly guiding him towards fit solutions.

"The neoprene bootie in a water ski fits a bunch of different people, so I'm thinking, 'That's kind of cool,'" he recalls. "I started sketching up booties and then realized that it needed, for support, some sort of exoskeleton, because I thought it would be cool to be seen. So the whole exoskeletal approach to the shoe design sort of came out of this sort of desire to want to develop this Dynamic Fit shoe."

The Huarache, named in part thanks to some inspiration from co-worker Sandy Bodecker, is in the midst of yet another resurgence in popularity and is one of today's best sellers of the current era.
- Nick DePaula

6. Air Jordan 4

With its triangular and rubberized support wing, wrapping midsole and a unique mesh-wrapped tongue and quarter panel, as is often the case with a great Tinker design, the Air Jordan IV featured a striking look without any reliance on branding. The shoe stood out on court then, and still stands out off of it all these years later. Namely, in both its white and black-based takes with "cement grey" accenting.
- Nick DePaula

5. Nike Air Trainer 1

All throughout Tinker's career, he utilized his ability as a former multi-sport star athlete to also inform the performance traits he was looking to incorporate into his footwear designs. Along the way, he just so happened to create an entirely new category for the industry, based on his insight that there's a new for an all-purpose type of shoe.

"I was trying to stay in shape, and I was still playing basketball, so I'd go to the YMCA, and they had a couple of really nice basketball courts there," Tinker recounted to me. "You could also jump into a racquet game, and aerobics was really starting to pick up, and they had a really nice weight facility, too. So with me working for Nike, I would always go over there with three or four pairs of shoes and not really knowing what I was going to do. I'd actually have three pairs of shoes in my bag."

After a while, as you can imagine, Tinker realized that not only was it not all that practical to have to haul and switch sneakers for each activity, but that also wasn't realistic for the rest of the club members that didn't happen to work at Nike with countless shoes at their disposal.

"I was not gonna go for a 5-mile run in a pair of basketball shoes, but people were doing just that," he continues. "My observation was that most people would show up there with one pair of shoes, whether they were running shoes or basketball shoes or tennis shoes, and try and do multiple things with one shoe. I'm going, 'Well geez, now I see a path to a project.'"

And thus, the Air Trainer 1, a shoe that could work well enough for just about everything, was born, and the entire Cross-Training category as we know it, too.
- Nick DePaula

4. Nike MAG

Sneakers can often take on an even grander profile thanks to the iconic athletes that wear them on the pro hardwood, fields or courts. In the case of the Nike MAG, the platform and audience that the Back To The Future franchise provided was beyond anyone's expectations.

For Tinker, designing a fictional shoe (along with the entire scene storyboard) for a movie set in the future was an all-new experience, and perhaps the greatest display of his otherworldly design talents.

"This was an opportunity to think about the future, which is a great exercise to go through when you're designing any shoe, really, because it will be in the future anyway," Hatfield told me years ago. "I thought about the year 2015, and I had a strong opinion that shoes might be somewhat intelligent and able to turn on and become alive in the future. I just naturally designed that into what ended up being this shoe."

That matter-of-fact explanation of the design process is of course an understatement, as the "Power Laces" and way in which the shoe illuminated went on to be defining traits of a shoe designed some thirty years ago. Ever since, its created mass hysteria among sneaker collectors, movie memorabilia collectors, and the general public alike whenever there's even a hint towards a re-release.
- Nick DePaula

3. Nike Air Max 1

Tinker Hatfield's first connection to Nike came while in college when he ran track for Oregon track coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. Tinker studied at the University of Oregon earning a degree in Architecture from the University of Oregon School of Architecture.

Tinker joined Nike in 1981 when he began work designing Nike's Beaverton Campus and World Headquarters. By 1985 Tinker started designing footwear where he took inspiration from buildings.

Inspired by the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Tinker wanted to put the technology from the inside of the shoe on display for all to see. Nike had Air cushioning since 1979, but it wasn't until 1987 with the Nike Air Max 1 that it was on display for all to see.

Tinker would continue to design several other legendary and iconic shoes in the Air Max series, but the ground that was broken with the Nike Air Max 1 is one that is felt in every category of Nike products and still today.
- Matt Halfhill

2. Air Jordan 11

There are some shoes that seriously need no introduction, and if there was any Air Jordan that fit this label, it would be the Air Jordan 11.

While the shoe will forever be cemented into NBA history on the feet of Michael Jordan during the historic 72-10 season, in addition to some of MJ's most memorable career moments, this shoe that was designed by Tinker Hatfield was his very best with or without Michael ever playing in them.

The design of the Air Jordan 11 was unlike anything we had ever seen in a basketball shoe from top to bottom. The lacing structure was again unlike anything ever done in sneakers down to even the actual laces. While not the first shoe to use patent leather, the way it wrapped around the mudguard of the shoe was completely original design. The midsole was a new material that was softer than prior models but with a greater energy return.

The full length Nike Air was one of the smoothest and most comfortable rides ever engineered. For stability, the shoe featured a carbon fiber plate. Lastly, the outsole featured a signatory clear rubber, but with traction pads with the herringbone pattern.

While many Air Jordans have crossed over from the feet of MJ and the sport of basketball to the streets and pop culture, none did it quite like the Air Jordan 11s. There is a reason that like MJ, Jordan Brand saves the best for last and finishes out the 4th quarter on top with a Jordan 11 release.

- Matt Halfhill

1. Air Jordan 3

What makes a shoe a classic? Is it the design, the technology, the impact it has on culture, or what was accomplished in those shoes? Mark all of the above and then some for the Air Jordan III.

Three years and two Air Jordans into his contract, Michael Jordan wasn't exactly happy. There were talks of him leaving the Swoosh to join Team Adidas and even a failed attempt by Peter Moore, designer of the Air Jordan 1-turned-adidas-exec, to pull him away from Nike as well. It was at this time that Nike called in the difference-maker, the game-changer, the legendary designer, Tinker Hatfield.

Tinker took a different approach to design. One of his first landmark designs was an all-purpose trainer. Literally a shoe that fit into no category except for all of the above, and in fact created a new space on shoe walls around the world called cross-training.

New approaches to design came in many ways to the Air Jordan III. It started with the first ever mid-cut basketball shoe. No longer did Nike need to produce a high and low top shoe for the Air Jordan franchise - there was just one. Another distinguishing look about the Air Jordan III was Tinker's call out to the Air cushioning in the Air Jordan with an exposed heel unit.

One of the most unique design elements to the Air Jordan III came in the form of the elephant print accents that have been borrowed by a number of Nike and Jordan products over time, not to mention other brands. Lastly, the Air Jordan III introduced to the world the Jumpman logo on the tongue for the entire world to see.

Nike was not a rookie in the marketing world, but when they called Wieden + Kennedy for the Jordan III, the stars aligned. You had a high-flying athlete, a wonderful product, and the cultural connection with Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon. Even Spike would have a hard time scripting a better recipe for success.

The Air Jordan III was an amazing product with many unique characteristics, but the life and legacy of the shoe extends far beyond just the leather and rubber that construct it. If you look back through the years of Michael Jordan's playing career, the 1987-88 season was arguably the greatest season for Mike where he didn't win a ring. In that one season, MJ accomplished what some Hall of Famers need an entire career to do.

Though he was not able to lead the Bulls to a championship in the Air Jordan III, Mike was honored with plenty of hardware. As an All-Star, MJ took home not only the Slam Dunk title, but also All-Star Game MVP honors. Mike dominated the offensive side of the ball leading the league with 35 points per game but backed that up defensively by leading the league in steals with 3.2 per game. As the Scoring Champ, Steals Champ, Slam Dunk Champ, and All-Star MVP, it was not a hard choice by the league to honor Michael Jordan as the league's Most Valuable Player for the first time in his career that season.

Design innovation, pop culture connection, and history derive from the Air Jordan III. That is why they are one of the greatest sneakers ever made.

Three. The magic number.
- Matt Halfhill

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