Tinker Hatfield: Pompidou Centre and Nike Air Max

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Tinker Hatfield is an architect who started working at Nike designing showrooms, and ended up being VP of design. He was behind the design of the now classic Air Max shoes. On this short interview he tells how the Pompidou Centre by Renzo Piano influencied his shoe design, in terms of exposed systems and color.

I always enjoy this stories on how architects end up working on other fields, but still influenced by architecture.

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Cite: Basulto , David. "Tinker Hatfield: Pompidou Centre and Nike Air Max" 15 Jul 2008. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2013. <http://www.archdaily.com/3917>

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    I made a report in my arch class about this very video !
    I love it
    tinker is a great designer
    thanks so much for this wonderful blog!

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    so tiger woods gets millions from nike… how much do they give this guy? 75,000$ /year?

    they should be flipped around

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