Designer Database | Eric Avar

The time has come to profile one of my favourite designers to be associated with #Nike. Considered by many to be the most influential designer of the past decade, Eric Avar initially planned to follow in his father's career footsteps as a mechanical engineer. As history would relate, however, whilst working at Athlete's Foot in the late 1980's he was completely beguiled by his first encounter with a designer's diagram of a Nike Air Stab. So grabbed by what he had seen he persuaded the dean at Rochester Institute of Technology to let him specialise in the subject of shoe design. The rest is history. From there he spent a six month period working for Adidas before joining the ranks at Nike. Now as Innovation Kitchen Creative Director of Special Projects, Avar has taken the lead of bringing Nike's latest technological innovations and applying them to creating a better performing product. 

Nike Air Foamposite One:

Nike Air Flightposite One:

Nike Air Flightposite Two:

Nike Air Flightposite Three:

Nike Air Garnett Three:

Nike Air Huarache Flight:

(with Hatfield according to the patents)

Nike Air Hyperflight:

Nike Air Penny One:

Nike Air Penny Two:

Nike Air Penny Three:

Nike Air Penny Four:

Nike Huarache 2K4:

Nike Hyperdunk:

Nike Jumpman Pro:

Nike Zoom Kobe Three:

Nike Zoom Kobe Four:

Nike Zoom Kobe Five:

Nike Air Zoom Flight "The Glove":

Nike Son of Glove:

Nike Air Zoom GP:

Nike Air Zoom GP Two:

Nike Air Zoom GP Three:

Nike Air Zoom GP Four: