Andrea Carriquiry: Week 10 Shoe

For the design of this shoe i wanted to make something i would love to buy for myself i wanted to create a very elegant and classy shoe that could be dressed up or dressed down. I was inspired mainly by three things. The first one, was myself and the way i love bows because they make everything elegant and girly. The second was the obvious red sole which was inspired by Christian Louboutin’s shoes which also have a red sole, and the third one was Blair Waldorf, one of the main characters in the tv show Gossip Girl and how her style is very classy and elegant, i also decided to use her last name as the name for this design because of its sophistication.

To create the model in rhino y created the curves using control points and rebuilding them, as well as using the sweep2 command to make the leather parts and fixed the trouble spots using BlendSrf. For the details i used pipes. For the bow i used two triangles and a square which i filleted  to look more rounded. For the logo on the back i projected and extruded the rectangle on the back of the shoe and used Boolean Difference for the letters.

The materials i chose were a light nude leather for the shoe, a gold metal for the pipes, the bow and the logo, so these would stand out but also they would look really good with the nude leather. I decided to go with a red material on the sole and insole to make the shoe more fun and to give it a pop of color.