Pensole Footwear Design Academy, in partnership with Autodesk and Wacom, kicked off its Fusion of Footwear Design Competition, an online competition to find the industry’s best emerging 3D designers, according to Pensole Founder D’Wayne Edwards.
“Partnering with Autodesk and Wacom enables us to create a completely new type of competition for our longstanding partnership with FN Platform, North America’s largest footwear tradeshow,” Edwards said. “3D design is the future of our industry.”
Applicants can enter designs in the following FN Platform categories:
- Play: Juniors’ and women’s footwear
- Zen: The crossroads of footwear style and comfort
- Camp: Women’s and men’s casual lifestyle and advanced contemporary footwear
- Bond: Bespoke footwear for the modern man
- Cosmo: Women’s fashion footwear
- Black Diamond: Luxury footwear collections
The top 20 designs will be featured in Footwear News and at FN Platform, February 21-23, 2017 in Las Vegas. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, January 22 at 11:59 p.m. Selection of the top 20 designs will take place on Friday, January 27.
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