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Regular Deadline: Sept 30, 2023

The 4th Annual Global Footwear Awards is Open for submission!

Regular Deadline – Saturday, September 30, 2023.

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The Global Footwear Awards acknowledges the best in the shoes industry, addressing creativity, innovation, sustainability and social impact. GFA provides an international platform for professionals and students to share their footwear design, their innovative solutions to sustainability and social impact, from concept to manufacturing and beyond.

The program offers global visibility to designers, providing greater opportunities in the footwear industry for emerging designers to businesses and corporations.

Featured 2022 Winners

https://www.globalfootwearawards.com/winners/special/2022/12/

SPLIT Vanagtshoes / Brand of the Year

VOLT Dempsey Pauwels / Emerging Designer of the Year

AYUMA Catia Di Carlo / Independent Designer of the Year

Sustainable Football Cleats Daniel Visintainer / Winner in Sustainability

Nike ISPA Kids Concept Jianwei Sun / Winner in Kids

Dolce & Gabbana Wave X Bynoff BN905 Loupdesignsneakers / Winner in Innovation

RAL7000STUDIO X BERSHKA Clogs in dust color-way RAL7000studio X Bershka / Winner in 3D Print

Vertex Waterfall Heels Concept by Pet Liger

Vertex Waterfall Heels Concept Pet Liger / Winner in Women's Fashion

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ANNOUNCEMENT

From top left: Felipe Fiallo, Sissi Johnson, Robbie Fuller, Richard Kuchinsky, Chen Wang, Ann Williams, Sean Williams, Robert Quach, Yael Joyce Vantu, Oronzo De Matteis.

Global Footwear Awards Unveils Visionary Jury for Fourth Edition

The Global Footwear Awards (GFA) is thrilled to unveil the distinguished jury members who will be presiding over its highly anticipated fourth edition. The GFA, an esteemed platform celebrating outstanding achievements in footwear design, is now open for submissions from talented designers worldwide. Since its inception, the GFA has attracted designers from over 50 countries, […]

The 3rd Annual Global Footwear Awards Winners Announced

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3C Awards is joining The World Design Organization (WDO), a worldwide network of over 185 member organizations promoting industrial design.

Zurich, Switzerland – The Three C Group (3C Group) has recently joined the World Design Organization (WDO)®, becoming a member of the globally recognized non-governmental organization that aims... Read more »

Global Footwear Awards is joining the 3C Awards Group, a sSwiss-based organization curating, recognizing and supporting talented designers.

3C Awards will be a leading organization curating, recognizing and supporting talented designers through awards, press, media exposure, events, and exhibitions organization. The company’s key... Read more »

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Global Footwear Awards Jury members

Our esteemed jury panel consists of leading industry professionals whose talents and contributions to the footwear community are aspirational. They are leading professionals coming from different disciplines within the footwear industry, including major publications, retailers, institutions and influencers, providing an overall industry perspective towards the selection of the best design.

Full Jury

GLOBAL FOOTWEAR AWARDS INTERVIEW

Meet Noriyuki Misawa, multi-awarded shoemaker and artist.

A pair of good shoes should also be a walkable work of art. How to better integrate technology and art in the process of designing and manufacturing shoes is considered to be a problem that the entire footwear industry has been exploring and thinking about. Recently, Linker by Red Boots Awards, the Chinese partner of the Global Footwear Awards interviewed Noriyuki Misawa, a Japanese handmade shoe maker/artist, to launch an in-depth dialogue on technology and art, creation and inheritance of shoemaking concepts and professional experience.

It is such an honor to receive this award. I am very grateful to the jury and to the Global Footwear awards for recognizing my work on this international landscape. This design is very significant to me, especially because the realization of the concept was very complicated given the sphere shape of the heel, however I was determined to bring it to fruition.

Tori Soudan - Winner 2021

Winning the Global Footwear Awards indicate that we are walking the right path and will continue to work hard in this way.

Dempsey Pauwels - Emerging Designer of the Year