CCHS Advanced Art and DATA Di aligned their creative minds once again! This time it was for the 2011 Vans Custom Culture shoe design challenge. Vans, which have been worn on the feet of millions since quietly entering the late 1970's skateboard scene, have locked their employee's talents on sustaining creativity in today's high school classrooms by offering their 1st annual design competition.
The CCHS team of traditional and digital artists worked collaboratively to visually represent the Coachella Valley in the categories of Street Art, Music, Action Sports, and Fashion. Even though the team did not win the online public voting for the California region which closed April 27th, they were still one of ten schools in the state and one of fifty in the nation!
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After looking at these shoes and seeing the creativity behind these students, i became very interested. This task seems very difficult but after seeing what these students can do, it seems that this kind of project can really bring out the creativity in you.
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun project but a very time consuming one nun the less.
ReplyDeleteThis vans project was quite difficult, but it was doable. We had a choice from four categories and I chose the graffiti one. My group and I painted the shoe of how we thought the Art of the Desert would look like, and where it would be. We decided to use the "bridge scene." We thought about where graffiti really is and where people choose to express their type of art. It was a very interesting project and it turned out to be a success for my whole group. We liked how our shoes came out, along with all the other creative ones. Here is another good way to express your art. Through a shoe, and even through the photography! Both are a big part of this project.
ReplyDeleteVans was a great experience, there were so many ideas and once they became one it was such a cool process to watch. The types of designs were so fun for us to create because they were ideas that we had interest in such as desert sports, fashion, art and graffiti and music, we had the chance to work with great talented art students.
ReplyDeleteIn this project I helps with the ideas we choose for each shoe. an artist for each shoe had to draw or create it into the shoe. most of the materials we used were old and were reused for something other than they were made for. I also took pictures of the "desert sports" shoe, the setting of where the shoe was photographed was in a desert to emphasize the sports we tried to recreate.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw what Aaron Teel created I was so shocked that he had such a broad imagination and came up with something that interesting. The idea of a guitar shoe is just unreal and one of a kind!
ReplyDeleteThis is by far one of the coolest projects ever offered to DATA. Its really great that Vans would offer to give us this opportunity because it really brought out the artist in everyone. The amount of detail and creativity was astonishing.
ReplyDeleteSince VANS has such a long and prolific history, it's great that our academy was able to work with them. The kids who made them were definitely not doing the same thing by just painting them a few colors here and there but just adding a whole different spin to it. And I give much credit to Aaron Teel for his guitar/shoe hybrid. I know it took him quite a while so I give him much deserved credit.
ReplyDeleteI regret that i did not participate in this project.It looked like a very interesting project to design your own shoes for one of the biggest shoe companies.I like the work the students have done its unique and very different.
ReplyDeleteWhen Mr. Cauthron announced this project/challenge,i was pretty excited of what this would offer. This was a fun a creative challenge of trying to capture the Coachella Valley has. When Rob, Caroline and I started painting the chukka lows ,we kept redirecting out ideas to make it more unique. This was a great experience also because this was also a group thing of communicating with one another's ideas and bringing them together. Truly to me this was a great challenge to be a part of and great experience.
ReplyDeleteThis project is very interesting to me. I think Alvaro, Rob, and Caroline did a really good job with their shoes. It really portrayed what our city looks like with the palm trees an the bridge.
ReplyDeleteI was very excited to be a part of this project, even though our school did not win, it was still a great experience. It was nice to see how both DATA and Advanced Art Students worked together to come up with such creative and unique ideas. Its great that Vans would present us with such a great opportunity.
ReplyDeleteThis project seemed very difficult and as if though it challenged the mind of the kids working on it! I give much credit to those who made it, it was not an easy feat. I hope to someday gain recognition and honor as these students have achieved.
ReplyDeleteThis project was one of the those that needed a lot of imagination and creativity I wish I would've participated in this project. Seems like it was a lot of fun. I saw Aaron and Jayke work on these shoes everyday and I can tell it took a lot of work and effort to get them to come out how they did.
ReplyDeleteThe vans shoes came out great. They are very creative and event hough they weren't winners but I love them.
ReplyDeleteThe vans photoshoot was so much fun. one day I came in photo class and I was asked to take a picture of some vans shoe's. I said yes without thinking twice. after class i was asked to photoshop my picture i love the way it came out and I am proud of that photo.
ReplyDeleteI was one of the artists that worked on the shoes. I made the motocross shoe. It was a nice change of pace ,I had become accustom to tablet work and it felt good to create with my hands agin.
ReplyDeleteVans Custom Culture helped some students express their ideas through a visual art form such as designer their own shoes. The shoes created blew mind because some people have so much creativity to release. It made me wanna go out and create my own shoe.
ReplyDeleteJose Estarad: I should've done this project.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Lopez: The students that worked on this project and created one-of-a-kind shoes that look awesome.
ReplyDeleteThese shoes are definitely unique! The students that worked on these did a great job and are lucky to have been able to work with Vans!
ReplyDeleteThe Vans Shoe Project was very exiting because you had the chance to turn a blank canvas into anything you wanted. You also had the chance to collaborate with other people to see there perspective on it, and this made you try even harder.
ReplyDeleteWow! Amazing work shown in these pictures. Very creative and unique.
ReplyDeleteThese are some great designs of Vans. Who ever created the chukka low's keep on doing what your doing man. I love it.
ReplyDeleteThese shoes were really good designed! To out there for me to were though.
ReplyDeleteAmazing shoes. I wonder if anyone got to wear them...
ReplyDeleteIt's not very often you would see guitar shoes!
ReplyDeleteThese shoes are awesome!
It takes real imagination to make these!
Viviana Gaytam: These shoes look great and they look truly unique.
ReplyDeleteI love this project and I hope I can do this next year
ReplyDeleteI wish i participated in this event. It most of been a grand opportunity for DATA to be able to make designs for Vans and then seem them actually make it on to the shoes. After they were painted and returned, they were then able to photograph them and enter them into a photography contest. And one of our own DATA kids, Wesley Duncan's picture was chosen for a Vans poster. I Love Vans!!
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