Designer Jim Tirone cleverly uses Nike’s existing technology feasibility to create a shoe for vertical rock climbing/trekking, a sporting area never explored by the super-company.
“Nike Free Climb” is a personal conceptual project done in my spare time. As an industrial designer, I am always thinking about how products could be improved so when I started rock climbing a few years ago it was only natural that I started to think about re-designing the gear. –Jim Tirone