{"id":468395,"date":"2015-10-21T16:58:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=468395"},"modified":"2019-01-22T23:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:31:52","slug":"sneaker-sketch-of-the-week-tinker-hatfields-nike-mag-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/sneaker-sketch-of-the-week-tinker-hatfields-nike-mag-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneaker Sketch Of The Week \/\/ Tinker Hatfield’s Nike MAG Design"},"content":{"rendered":"
words \/\/ Nick DePaula:<\/strong><\/p>\n Every shoe that a footwear designer creates will eventually be released in the future, of course.<\/p>\n Typically, that’ll be around 12-18 months later on, but back in 1988, Tinker Hatfield was working on a project set some 27 years in the future.<\/p>\n The shoe, the Nike MAG, was to be featured in the “Back To The Future 2” movie a year later, and it would go on to become one of the most iconic sneakers in pop culture.<\/p>\n “In 2015, a sneaker is still a sneaker!” Tinker playfully noted on one sketch.<\/p>\n “I thought about the year 2015,” he retells. “And I had a strong opinion that shoes might be somewhat intelligent and able to turn on and become alive in the future.”<\/p>\n With that initial insight in mind, that shoes would\u00a0incorporate power in some way, Hatfield sketched\u00a0a veering, sleekened high-top sneaker with “power laces.” One sketch even featured “growing Air bags.”<\/p>\n Check out several of Tinker Hatfield’s original Nike MAG sketches below in our latest Sneaker Sketch of the Week<\/a>, and stay tuned for more launch news of the Spring 2016 MAG.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" words \/\/ Nick DePaula: Every shoe that a footwear designer creates will eventually be released in the future, of course.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142940,"featured_media":468396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1204678,1225587,1207285,1223988,1204422],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n