What surprised me about these shoes when I cam across them on the web was that they are apparently available for purchase! From what I can gather they are made of recycled corrugated cardboard (yes, plain old cardboard), recycled rubber, and car tyre…
Most peculiar!

if you are poor and need shoes in Africa you make a plan. Check out these innovative, make-shift sandals made using 2l plastic bottles.

Quite an interesting shoe related article. A computer science professor is building a database of shoe soles to allow police to identify soles of thousands of shoes instantly.
Footprints are one of the most common things found at crime scenes. Unfortunately with the abundance of shoe sole patterns today and not enough experts available it is [...]

Nike offers a great opportunity for anyone with old shoes that they are just going to throw away. The Nike ReUSE A SHOE program offers recycling centres in the USA, Europe and Australia for your old shoes. The shoes are turned into sports playing surfaces. To recycle the shoes you need to make sure of [...]

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe…almost literally, though I am not sure that the person that lives here is an old woman. It is a house built in the shape of a shoe.
It was built in 1948 as an advertising gimmick by “Colonel” Mahlon Haines.
There is a picture of the Shoe [...]

Nice design concept, especially for the beach in summer. A pair of sandals using the same design as a lovely summer bikini.
Buy yourself a red bikini and these sandals and there you go, a stunning matching beach outfit.

Lovely boot-shaped children’s playhouse for the garden.
If you are thinking of starting a home DIY project then you might want to look for plans for something similiar, it really is a classic design for a kid’s playhouse.
Just thought I would put it into the shoes blog…not really a shoe…but still along the same theme!

No! You’re right, if you own expensive shoes made of certain materials, they probably would be a lot better off not going in the rain very often, if at all.
What about some mini-umbrella’s to stick onto the shoes! Just a bit of fun really, they are not going to do anything if you step into [...]

Here are a few interesting pictures of animals and shoes. I am pretty sure these are all just Photoshop creations but for any aspiring designer it is often a good idea to draw conceptualizations from nature as almost all derivable design forms can be found occurring somewhere in nature.
So if you are an aspiring shoe [...]

Really, but not yet in production, these shoes are filled with water in the sole. When walking or running the pressure drives the water through a built-in turbine, generating electricity.
Apparently these shoes will be in production by 2010 and will have a power generating capacity enough to charge an iPod or a cellphone.
It is a [...]