May 7, 2007
Art students in the senior industrial design course at the University of Wisconsin-Stout have designed new work boot concepts for 10 years in the future.
As their senior project, the students have been working with the PRO Division product development team of The Timberland Company in Stratham, N.H., to research new product work boot opportunities in construction, maintenance and factory work.
The student concepts vary from boots targeting specific job duties such as roofing work to boot innovations in comfort, safety and stability.
Each student has constructed a physical model of his or her design and has created two-dimensional presentation boards.
The final designs will be delivered to Timberland officials in a private critique on May 11. Later that evening, the students will publicly present their designs during their senior show. The “I DID ID” senior show begins at 7 p.m. May 11 in Room 216 of the Applied Arts Building.
For more information, contact Noah Norton, assistant professor of industrial design, at nortonn@uwstout.edu or (715) 232-2507.
