Design for Sports

Sports design is a very specific type of design, because it pushes the technologies and materials to their limits and tests their abilities. Sporting good depend on extensive research on the human body, safety, ergonomics and aesthetics. After research and multiple developments, the product is usually designed on a computer software and later tested and multi-produced.

An example of a sporting good is the Nike's lightweight shoe which was inspired from a sock. This shoe took four years of research and development to create. A team of designers, engineers and programmers collaborated to produce this shoe that has the properties of a sock. It's upper body is made in one piece and is a combination of yarn and fabric. The materials are said to be "precisely engineered only where they are needed", and this produced a 5.6 ounces shoe, 19% less then a popular Nike's marathon shoes. The design process was described to be a "mission of micro-engineering".

A nike running shoes that allows you to listen to your music

A motorcycle helmet, featuring all the important safety features such as hard outer shell, polyester foam liner underneath the outer shell, comfort liner for the head to rest on, face shield and face/chin protector, a chin strap and also strong rivets.

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JONATHAN DILLON. (2014). Best Motorcycle Helmet Guide. Available: http://bestmotorcyclehelmetguide.net/. Last accessed 11th january 2014.