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INTERSTITIA - available now at the link in my bio.

Comment "shop" to get the direct link

To learn more about the name...comment "research"

designed and modeled by @gbsn_dsgn
produced by @zellerfeld

#3dprintedshoes #zellerfeld #mule #shoes #footwear #footwears #footwearfashion #footweardesigner #shoestyle #slideon #footweardesigns #footweardesigning #footweardesigners #footweardesignconsultancy #shoesaddicts #shoesaddicted #shoesaddiction #shoeinnovation #shoestagrams #shoestagramfeature by @john_gbsn

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INTERSTITIA |_| convertible mule _ > clog | easy access for barefoot connection

Release on @zellerfeld | 6 / 25 / 2026 |

ACCESS_strap | | ratchet down for ease of entry / / exit | _ | strap up for action

SCAN2FIT _ | | mobile foot scan adjust the fit and feel for your unique feet

A NEW era of FOOTWEAR | | Fused 3D lattice support | you have to feel it to believe it | | seeing | ≠ | believing

FUTURE forward CONSTRUCTION | | no stitching, glue or weak points

LOW MAINTENANCE | | Machine washable, quick-drying and odor resistant

Step into the future of footwear

#footwear #footweardesign #customshoes #shoedesign #shoesofinstagram by @john_gbsn

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INTERSTITIA | action strap | covetable mule _> clog |

rapid removal - quick ground connection

scan2fit | advanced lattice support _> you have to feel it to believe it

seeing ≠ believing

return to your foundations | available on @zellerfeld 6 / 25 / 2026

#footwear #shoes #customshoe #zellerfeld #nog by @john_gbsn

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Lace, carbon, and a unique heel...

The upper is an engineered knit lace | open cell structure that expands as the foot swells over the miles. The laces skip the upper entirely and mount straight into the sole, so lockdown loads the plate instead of the fabric. Underneath, stacked carbon plates take the heel strike and give it back through the stride.

Delicate on the surface visually. Structural underneath.

Still testing the theory. Tell me what you would change.

#footweardesign #shoedesign #industrialdesign #productdesign #footwearconcept #sneakerdesign #runningshoes #performancefootwear #carbonplate #carbonfiber #biomechanics #sportsbiomechanics #gaitanalysis #footwearengineering #materialinnovation by @john_gbsn

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2 months ago

it’s all connected

link in bio 🔗 sign up for updates

#4pillars 4 anatomical figures surround a brain by @john_gbsn

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4 months ago

sound - vibration - energy - visualization

ongoing experiment

If you want to understand the universe - think in terms of energy vibration and frequency - Nicola Tesla

Check the link bio 🔗 stay up to date.

#cymatics #sound #visualsound #nicolatesla Sound visualization by @john_gbsn

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Vivobarefoot Sensus Special Edition concept.

The Mystichrome colorway draws inspiration from Ford’s Special Vehicle Team finish — the color-shifting paint first introduced on the 2004 Mustang SVT Cobra. A surface designed to reveal form through changing light, reinterpreted here to reveal movement.

#barefoot #footwear #shoedesign #footweardesign #cmf by @john_gbsn

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8 months ago

series of 3 - mini collection

**partial tabi**
- barefoot
- rock climb
- ultra run

Comment “VIZCOMai” to learn more about my process.

dev in prog.

#footweardesign #concepts #shoesofinstagram #design #tabi by @john_gbsn

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7 months ago

Mysterious structure: Puma x Rombaut Levitation

#design #computationaldesign #3dprinting #lattice #footwear by @john_gbsn

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7 months ago

neuromuscular stimulation - connection - and control

comment “shoeTech” to get an in depth breakdown on modern footwear technologies and their effect on the neuromuscular control and connection.

#footwear #shoedesign #research #biomechanics #shoes by @john_gbsn

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6 months ago

To grow is to cleave.

To split from the shoe you were sold. From the cushioned certainty, the orthopedic apology, the decade of being told the foot is fragile and must be managed. To diverge from the road most worn — the one paved smooth by marketing and inherited assumption — and walk, instead, toward what the body has been quietly asking for the entire time.

And yet. To cling. To the foot you already have. To the gait you arrived with. To the sock drawer, the morning routine, the small continuities that make a life feel like a life. Growth is not the violent abandonment of the self. Growth is the self, taking another step.

The mistake of every revolution is to demand that the convert be reborn. Throw out your shoes. Re-learn to walk. Begin again, from zero. But no one begins from zero. We begin from where we stand, in the shoes we already own, with the habits the years have laid down like sediment. The honest path forward is the one that honors what you carry while inviting you to carry it differently.

This is the quiet ambition of the partial tabi. Not a rupture. A reach. Enough divergence to wake the foot. Enough familiarity to keep the wearer in the world they already inhabit. Most Advanced Yet Acceptable — which is another way of saying: you do not have to become someone else to grow.

The growth mindset is not a leap. It is a step taken with one foot still on the ground you know.

Split from the old story. Cling to the self that's telling it.

Both, at once. Underfoot.

#footweardesign #footwearinnovation #sneakerdesign #conceptfootwear #footwearconcept #industrialdesign #productdesign #designresearch #footwearengineering #biomechanics #sportsbiomechanics #performancefootwear #barefootscience #proprioception #kineticchain #tabi #partialtabi #knitfootwear by @john_gbsn

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I ordered the wrong size of the @puma x @rombautofficial Levitation shoe - instead of returning them - I 3D scanned them and printed them custom shaped to my @volumental foot scan…

#footwear #footweardesign #3dprint #shoes #additivemanufacturing by @john_gbsn

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