adidas continue to push the bar with new releases. First the brand dropped the adidas FutureCraft 3D back in 2015. Now they will debut the next installment, the adidas FutureCraft 4D.
The adidas FutureCraft 4D is described from the Three Stripes brand as the world’s first high performance footwear featuring midsoles crafted with light and oxygen. They have connected with Digital Light Synthesis, a echnology developed by the Silicon Valley-based technology company and manufacture Carbon.
“With Digital Light Synthesis, we venture beyond limitations of the past, unlocking a new era in design and manufacturing. One driven by athlete data and agile manufacturing processes,” Eric Liedtke, Adidas Group executive board member for Global Brands, said in a statement. “By charting a new course for our industry, we can unleash our creativity- transforming not just what we make, but how we make it.”
“We’re enabling engineers and designers to create previously impossible designs, and businesses to evolve their offerings, and FutureCraft 4D is evidence of that,” Joseph DeSimone, co-founder and CEO of Carbon, said in a statement. “Our partnership with Adidas will serve as an ongoing testament to how the digital revolution has reached the global manufacturing sector, changing the way physical goods are designed, engineered, made, and delivered.”
adidas FutureCraft 4D Release Date
adidas will debut 300 pairs of the adidas FutureCraft 4D to friends and family. Following the brand will debut 5,000 pairs which will take place during December 2017. By the end of 2018, the Three Stripes brand plans on creating more than 10,000 pairs of high performance footwear with Digital Light Synthesis.
adidas FutureCraft 4D
December 2017
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Update: The adidas FutureCraft 4D will release at select adidas Originals retailers during December 2017.
Update: We now have a detailed look at the adidas FutureCraft 4D which was on display at the NYC event via Hypebeast.