NIKE KD 2 ReDesign

Photo Credit: Creative Astronaut Ventures

• Company
  Creative Astronaut Ventures
• Brand
  Creative Astronaut
• Lead Designer
  Quintin Williams
• Design Team
  Quintin Williams
• Client
  Nicekicks
• Photo credit
  Creative Astronaut Ventures
• Prize
  Winner in SNEAKERS
• Expertise
  Brand

This project was created by myself to explore iconic signature shoes and recreate/update them. In this particular series, I focused on the NIKE KD 2. There were two components that I kept as design elements: the clean upper and the ribbed exterior heel counter but accentuate it more. One silhouette I've always loved was the NIKE Zoom Ultraflight, so I bridged that iconic TPU Support Shell and applied it to the heel to give more aggressive sculpting. I aimed to make the side profile as clean as possible to mimic KD's smooth playing style as the original model did - but just updated. The in