Hi! I hope you are doing well. I am a mens, women and children's footwear designer for a living and design for FCUK, Ron White, Saks off Fifth, RobertoVasi, WestJet Airways, and Kenneth Cole Unlisted. I studied at FIT in NY. I have done the entire FCUK athletics/fashion sport line you currently see in stores.
I have the latest software in Illustrator to make beautiful CADs needed for factories to follow. I am also a very clear communicator and very methodical in my sketching and research to increase efficiency.
In order to begin this project, I would need inspiration, materials, season, gender, customer profile, and color story. I need to see shoes you love at the moment by other brands to have a good understanding of shoe shape and silhouette as everyone has something different in their vision. My job is to take those inspirations and your potential customer in mind and to sketch it all out. I also need to know your vision for the outsole.
In my field I am constantly shopping the market and I also have access to WGSN ($10,000/year trend research site) which helps predicts trends 1-1.5 year ahead of time.
Please see my portfolio when you have a moment. I have put up a snippet of my work for public viewing.
Hope to speak soon. Let me know if you have any questions. Have a great day!