OESH on How I Built This with Guy Raz OESH founder Dr. Casey Kerrigan was featured on the How I Built This with Guy Raz segment, How You Built That. In the podcast, Dr. Kerrigan describes her journey from research to manufacturing in her quest to understand, then mass produce, a groundbreaking, healthy shoe. Listen below, or on the npr website. "...and [...] Continue Reading
OESH Supported by the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund Download Press Release PDF Here Virginia shoe company accelerates growth with $900K national and regional funding Regional innovator’s expansion initiatives rooted in industry-first, science-backed, sustainable design Charlottesville, VA, September 25, 2019 —(PR.com)—Today OESH Shoes announces a total of $900,000 in funding awarded by national and regional grant sources that will significantly accelerate growth and […]
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Townie 3D Printed Flat by OESH We are extremely excited to introduce our newest shoe, the Townie Flat! If you like our sandals you’ll love the 3D Printed Townie! The Townie Flat is made entirely in our Charlottesville, VA factory with 3D printing and 3D knitting. We developed our 3D printers specifically for fabricating shoes based on Dr. Kerrigan’s research with […]
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3D Printed Flatform Sandals! We love our new Glacier Blue soles so much, we wanted twice as much. Introducing, for Summer 2019 only, our first 3D Printed Flatform Sandals! Love the comfort of flat shoes, but miss the added height of a heel? Flatforms give you an extra boost of height with the OESH advantages of a completely […]
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New! Glacier Blue Translucent 3D Printed Sandals For Summer 2019, we are introducing a brand new sandal sole color- Glacier Blue! Glacier Blue uses translucent light blue pigment in our 3D printing process, resulting in a shimmery high tech new colorway! These new soles look as light as they feel, whether you are racing down a river or wandering around town. Artemis […]
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CNC Knitting Just Got Local Christmas came early in the OESH factory this year with the arrival of our very own CNC Knitting Machine! With our NSF Phase II SBIR grant, we were able to purchase the latest and greatest Stoll industrial knitting machine for our Charlottesville factory. Knitting is standard in the footwear industry, and OESH is no […]
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2018 Upstyle Award Semi-Finalists OESH’s Dream Flat is a semi-finalist for the 2018 Upstyle Award! The Upstyle Award which is The International Competition for Fashion, Science, and Technology, in Shangai, judges fashion and technology creations from all around the world. Judges focus on five aspects: “technological innovation, fashion design, environmental protection concept, humanized design and social value” and we’re […]
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Custom 3D Printed OESH Sandals Custom 3D Printed OESH Sandals use 3D printing to easily manufacture custom products to address unique needs. If you have ever visited the OESH factory in Charlottesville, VA, you may have noticed a sign for custom sandals. Our Artemis and Athena Sandals are usually 3D printed and strapped for a specific customer. Although everyone’s feet […]
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The Best Travel Shoes Great for everything, especially travel Our OESHers tell us about all kinds of activities they love doing while wearing OESH. We’ve heard almost everything- prancersize, rock climbing, organ playing, even surgery! But one thing we hear a lot is that OESH shoes are the BEST travel shoes. We have even had more than one local […]
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Are You Exercising Your Foot Core? The Foot Core System One of many nice things about human movement research is that you get to work with some truly brilliant people, like Dr. Patrick McKeon who published an article, “The foot core system: a new paradigm for understanding intrinsic foot muscle function,” in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. I had the pleasure […]
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