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Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 2-3 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: Ari Menthol 10s: The Sneakers That Smoked the System Quote of the day: “A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead.” – Bill Bernbach Made me think: 🧠 The Mandela EffectCoined in 2009 by paranormal researcher Fiona Broome, the Mandela Effect describes the...

Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 3-4 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: The story of Apollos moon boots, and the darkest material on earth. Quote of the day: “I would annex the planets if I could.” — Cecil Rhodes, (1853–1902) was a British imperialist, mining magnate, and politician in Southern Africa. His quote is provocative and this life controversial, but in the context of design, it prompts us to consider ambition: how far is too far, and when does scale become hubris? Made...

Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 3 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: The story of Apple's rare $50K sneakers, The thinking game and Bambu 3D printers. Quote of the day: “Fashion is a parasite on style.” — Elizabeth Hawes, (1905–1977) was an American fashion designer and outspoken critic of the fashion industry. In her 1938 book Fashion is Spinach, she championed personal style over fleeting trends, challenging the notion that fashion dictated taste.. Made me think: 🧠 Von...

Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 5 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: Reebok's 1997 Instapump Fury, Anatomy and Significa Quote of the day: “When everything is urgent, nothing is truly important.” — Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction. Made me think: 🧠 Positivity Bias — Our instinct to overestimate the likelihood of good outcomes. In design, it fuels progress — the belief that we can build a...

Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 4 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: The Mockba — Adidas Behind the Iron Curtain, Everything in TV and other cool stuff Quote of the day: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” — Mikhail Bakunin a 19th-century Russian revolutionary and philosopher — often called the father of anarchism — who believed that tearing down oppressive systems was the first act of true creation. Made me think: 🧠 Scarcity Principle – When limited access amplifies...

Shoe DIRT DIRT: The Armadillo Shoe, Hawthorne effect and voice cloning. Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 2-3 min - No need to reply Quote of the day: “Character is who you are when nobody’s watching.” – John Wooden- Legendary basketball coach and life philosopher who championed integrity, discipline, and character as the true measures of success. Made me think: 🧠 The Hawthorne effectIn the late 1920s, researchers at the Hawthorne Works factory in Chicago discovered something...

Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 2-3 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: The most famous fall in fashion, The Stroop Effect and other cool stuff. Quote of the day: “I never heard a crackhead say, ‘I ain't got no $ so I ain't smoking today.’ They always find a way. So you gonna let a crackhead out hustle you?” — Ed Latimore, former professional boxer, physics graduate, and writer on stoicism and personal discipline. Made me think: 🧠 The Stroop EffectDiscovered by John Ridley Stroop...

Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 2-3 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, Peter Principle and 0 waste, on demand shoes. Quote of the day: “Perfect is the enemy of good.” – Voltaire (1770) Made me think: 🧠 The Peter PrincipleFormulated by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, this principle states: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” In short: people get promoted based on their...

Design Ideas & Random Thoughts Read Time: 2-3 min - No need to reply Shoe DIRT DIRT: Cantabrian Albarcas, Overgeneralisation bias and sleep music Quote of the day: “Patriotism is the madness of many to profit by the interest of a few.” – Voltaire Made me think: 🧠 Overgeneralisation BiasCoined in psychology by Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s, the overgeneralisation bias describes our tendency to draw broad, sweeping conclusions from a single event or limited evidence. In other words, we take one...