Art & Sole
Art & Sole:
Contemporary Sneaker Art & Design
Originally published in 2008, Art & Sole celebrates the creative side of sneaker culture – featuring the best artist and brand sneaker collaborations, as well as showcasing artists who base their work on sneakers.
Information
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
On sale: 1 October 2008
Paperback: 240 pages
Dimensions: 195 x 270 mm
ISBN-10: 1856695654
Price: £17.95
About (Back Cover Text)
In recent years the sneaker scene has exploded with artist and designer collaborations. These specialist shoes are produced as short runs, using innovative or luxury materials, and often have bespoke packaging. Some even push the design of the shoes themselves, creating hybrids or new incarnations of classic designs.
Focusing exclusively on contemporary, cutting-edge sneaker design, Art & Sole sets out to explore and to celebrate the creative side of sneaker culture – showing the best and most original rarities and collaborations. These are not shoes that can be found in your average sports store.
The book also highlights how a growing number of artists base their work on sneakers – from sculptures made from dissected shoes, to oil paintings on canvas, and even the customization of the shoes themselves.
A launch party and exhibition for the book was held at size? Carnaby Street, London, with DJ-set supplied by G the P. Many sneakers from the book were on display, including James Lavelle's Nike Dunk High SB UNKLE and a pair of one-off adidas Stan Smith's customized by Mark Gonzales. Artwork from the book was also on show, including original works by INSA and Art & Sole cover artist Dave White - who was also signing copies of the book.
Art & Sole:
Mini Edition
Information
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
On sale: 1 March 2012
Paperback: 240 pages
Dimensions: 146 x 203 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1856695657
Price: £9.95
About
Featuring the same content and pagination as the original book, Art & Sole was published as a smaller 'mini-edition' format in 2012.
Art & Sole:
Special Edition — Nike Cortez iD Pack
Information
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing & Nike
On sale: 16 March 2012
Paperback: 240 pages
Dimensions: 146 x 203 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1856695657
Price: £150
Edition: 4 x 40
About
To celebrate the release of the mini-edition Art & Sole, Intercity worked with Nike to design the Special Edition Art & Sole Cortez iD sneaker collection.
As part of the project, Intercity commissioned four artists - Jiro Bevis, Matthew Nicholson, Shantell Martin and Rose Stallard - to create an artwork for one of four limited edition Art & Sole book covers. Working with different media; print, moving image, sculpture and sneaker-art respectively, the artists' brief was simply to interpret the Cortez sneaker using a specifically assigned colour - red, magenta, green or blue - which correlated to the category-signifying contents dots of Art & Sole. A book featuring each artist's artwork was then packaged in a bespoke sneaker box alongside a pair of the Art & Sole Cortez sneakers. The moving image piece created by Shantell Martin was also included within the packs on a Cortez-shaped flash-drive.
The sneakers themselves are tonal grey, referencing the blank-canvas shoe colour that is synonymous with NIKEiD (Nike By You), and have a gum outsole that pays homage to the first ever Cortez. We also added an embroidered ampersand to the heel and a colour-coded accent in the lining of the shoe to coordinate with the associated artwork.
A launch party for the project was held at the Nike Studio in Boxpark, London, with all four artworks on display and music supplied by Mikill Pane, Will Power and B.Traits. Additional activities included a silent auction (to win one of the packs) with proceeds going to local youth-led charity Art Against Knives, plus a design a Cortez iD competition (judged by Intercity). There was also colour-coordinated food in the form of pie & mash - with red, magenta, green and blue-coloured mash to match the Art & Sole Cortez shoes.
Selected Brands
adidas
Converse
DC Shoes
Gravis
New Balance
Nike
Onitsuka Tiger
Pointer
Puma
Reebok
Vans
Selected Artists
Ben Drury
Dave White
Delta
Evan Hecox
Futura 2000
Gary Panter
Gasius
Geoff McFetridge
Haze
Hiroshi Fujiwara
I Have Pop™
INSA
Irak NY
James Jarvis
Jeff Staple
Jun Watanabe
Katsuya Terada
Kaws
Kevin Lyons
Mark Gonzales
Mark Ward
Michael Lau
Mr. Cartoon
Neckface
Parra
Stash
Taka Hayashi
Todd James
Selected Press
Complex
Cool Hunting
Creative Review
FAD
Hypebeast
RWD
Sneaker Freaker
Sneaker News
Vice
Vogue
Intercity
Contact
info@intercitystudio.com
+44 (0)7702 344146
About
Intercity is an independent graphic design studio known for its highly considered multi-disciplinary approach. Originally founded in 2004, Intercity consists of founder and creative director Nathan Gale, senior designer Trystan Thompson and graphic designer Radley Cook. The trio work together across two studios based in the South West of England.
Although our core team is small, our network is vast and allows us to work cross-media to deliver unique creative solutions across all mediums from print and digital through to moving image and art installations.