Eric Avar
Eric Avar
Q&A with Nike Kobe 9 Designer Eric Avar
Much of yesterday’s major news involved the launch of the Kobe 9 and the Kobe Prelude Pack, which featured guest appearances by Kobe Bryant, Nike...
Where Design Meets Art: The Nike Kobe 9 – Media Event Recap
The most general schools of thought would suggest that a player at age thirty-five, one who just half a year ago suffered a season-ending injury,...
Nike Kobe 8 – Officially Unveiled
Over the last eight years, Kobe Bryant has grown to create an unbreakable legacy with Nike, pushing the limits of design, innovation, and style. Starting...
20 Years Of Nike Basketball Design: Zoom Kobe IV (2008)
Upon seeing yesterday’s look back at the original Hyperdunk’s role in the past twenty years of Nike Basketball innovation, one reader predicted that...
20 Years Of Nike Basketball Design: Air Hyperdunk (2008)
Team USA will face Australia in its first tournament game of the London Olympics in just a short time, the same team they trounced in...
20 Years Of Nike Basketball Design: Air Zoom Huarache 2K4 (2004)
Nike Basketball’s trip back through the past twenty years sees its first ‘retro’ entry today, as a dozen years after the list kicked off with...
20 Years Of Nike Basketball Design: Zoom Ultraflight (2003)
Building off the successful Zoom platform of 2001’s Hyperflight, Aaron Cooper and Eric Avar set out to re-create the Hyperflight’s performance while incorporating an aesthetic...
20 Years Of Nike Basketball Design: Air Hyperflight (2001)
has followed Nike Basketball back through the first half of its examination of the past twenty years, and after Tinker Hatfield’s name rang...
20 Years Of Nike Basketball Design: Shox BB4 (2000)
Any serious sneakerhead could tell you of Tinker Hatfield’s immense influence on sneaker design and the first few entries in Nike Basketball’s 20 year retrospective...