Nupky - Performance Heel

The bendable, fully functioning textile displaying its beautiful pastel/vivid colours over 17 lanes.

A quick look under the skirt of the prototype. (Personal project)

The Performance Heel - UNITED NUDE - Fold Hi 'Bright' - (Rendered video still)

The Performance Heel - UNITED NUDE - Fold Hi 'Electric' - (Rendered video still)

Building the electronics. - Testing the Spectrum

Building the prototype. - Aligning the lights on the textile

Building the prototype. - Layering the textile

Building the prototype. - Layering the textile pattern for diffusion

Early prototype - Light from within the shoe creates a beautiful, changing shadow display

This is my final bachelor project for Industrial Design at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Working with the OPENLight team and United Nude I developed a highly dynamic light embedded textile to be wrapped around a United Nude shoe as a show model for the United Nude flagship store in Amsterdam..

The Performance Heel is an innovative, “theater-like” storefront window display. It bridges the gap between highly dynamic television commercials and static window displays with an eye-catching and beautiful light show embedded into the textile of the shoe. This demonstration piece adds “wow” and magic to the already eccentric United Nude name. A motion tracking program allows passer-by's to browse the entire color collection of the Fold High on one shoe.

University of Technology Eindhoven (TU/e) - Industrial Design - BSc