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🔘Design Studio for the AI age.
🔘Keystone - an AI Operating System for Architects, coming soon.
🔘by @tillsteinforth

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RIPPLE RUNNER just won the Global Footwear Awards 2025 in two Sports Performance Categories: Running/Trail Running & Outdoor Athletic Sports.

RIPPLE RUNNER is fully 3D printed and built to blend elite speed + everyday comfort + bold design:
🌊 ripple-texture design language + foot-pressure mapping inspiration
⚡️ high energy-return Printfoam midsole
🧩 breathable Printweave upper
🦾 removable carbon plate to adapt from training to racing

🔗 Full award page link in bio

Huge thank you to Prof. Kylin Flothe and University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and shoutout @jadengebeke for the photos and @kvrsu for editing the video!

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Till Steinforth, a @unlarchitecture master's student and decathlete for @huskertfxc, spent the summer working with Kylin Flothe, @unl_tmfd assistant professor of practice, bringing all his interests together to create the first fully 3-D printed running shoe.

Steinforth said he has always had an interest in fashion and clothing, which is why he signed up for TMFD 123 Clothing & Society during his first year at Nebraska as an ACE 9 course. When he decided to pursue his idea of 3-D printing a running shoe, he reached back out to the TMFD department, and Flothe, Steinforth’s instructor from that first course, became his faculty mentor for his summer project.

One shoe took about 24 hours to print with all three parts – sole, upper, carbon plate. All three parts were printed separately then the upper was glued to the sole. The removable carbon plate allows for the shoes to be worn for a variety of types of workouts, providing increased stability when it is inserted and increased cushioning when it’s removed. The integrated insole of the upper also makes the Ripple Runner stand out, eliminating the need for additional inserts and ensuring a seamless fit.

“I think it’s really unique how he printed the upper because it’s almost like a sock,” Flothe said. “It’s not just the top, but the inner sole as well. That’s not something I’d ever really seen before and the flexible material allowed for that, but it took a lot of engineering on Till’s part and a lot of playing with the Rhino design language.”

Read the full story of this collaboration at the News link in our bio.

#UNL #UNLCEHS Till Steinforth and Kylin Flothe demonstrate the removable carbon plate in the Ripple Runner shoes Steinforth 3-D printed as part of a summer project under Flothe's guidance

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