Personalized footwear is no longer the business of brands like Adidas or Under Armour.
In Warsaw, two design students from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zuzanna Gronowicz and Barbara Motylinska designed 3D customizable printed shoes.
These sport shoes are made in an ecological environment using the ZMorph multifunction printer.
Eco-friendly materials are one of the reasons that motivated the manufacturing of this pair of shoes.
The truth is the footwear manufacturing industry uses about 25,000 litres of water to make a pair of shoes.
If every prospect/reader is given the liberty to appreciate the design, one could certainly appreciate the complete combination of materials and manufacturing. Zusanna and Barbara’s method is to directly print the sole of shoes on wool and cotton. A reduced material is then enough for the 3D printing.
They were able to create flexible and “breathable” shoes without using glue and sewing. The designers explained a standard plastic extruder was used for printing parts with flexible 
filaments, while the dual extruder printed parts with PVA [Polyvinyl alcohol] supports as well as segments with colour gradients.
In their preparatory process before their entrance on the market, Zusanna and Barbara created an application that allows prospects to customize their order or save STL files in order to print their shoes themselves.
This pair of shoes is indeed born in the “Do-It-Yourself” era.
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