OESH Athena, Artemis, Ares, and Apollo Sandals are all very adjustable, so that you can have a perfect fit. All of the OESH sandals have a continuous front strap, whether it wraps around your big toe or not. This front strap slides through the slots in the 3D printed sole, and can be made tighter […]
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Introducing Dark Earth and Yalie Elites All of us at OESH are excited to announce TWO new colors of Elites, just in time for the holidays, Dark Earth and Yalie! OESHers have been asking for more colors of the Elite in addition to Jet Black, and we are happy to deliver. Effortlessly slip on your Elites in the morning, wear […]
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OESH Shoes featured on Style Wise OESH Shoes recently teamed up with the lovely Leah Wise to do a collaboration on Style Wise, a fair trade and sustainable fashion blog. Check out Leah’s blog post, The Moral Wardrobe: Wear Anywhere OESH Shoes, 3-D Printed in Charlottesville. Leah lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and writes Style Wise, which explores ethical and sustainable fashion and living through […]
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Introducing the Artemis, a new 3D Printed Sandal by OESH Shoes All of us at OESH Shoes are excited to announce the release of our new Artemis Sandal! The Artemis is the slightly sportier, just as intelligent, sister of the Athena. It's halfway through the summer, the temperature is in the steamy 90's everyday (at least here in Charlottesville), and it feels like the perfect time to [...] Continue Reading
OESH 3D printed sandals and the Manus x Machina Met Gala have this in common . . . Few people are quick to relate OESH shoes with “high fashion” but the Manus x Machina exhibition and Met Gala theme, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, might convince you otherwise. Iris van Herpen, S/S 2010 haute couture: 3D printed, Manus x Machina Manus x Machina explores the relationship between hand and machine […]
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OESH Shoes is awarded a Grant to Develop Pellet Based 3D Printers! CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA- OESH Shoes has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation in partnership with Dojo Research & Consulting to develop a pellet-based extrusion process for 3D printers used in shoe manufacturing. Pellet printer research has the potential to increase the use of 3D printers in [...] Continue Reading
Customize your Sandal in Charlottesville Unlike typical sweatshop shoes, our sandal soles here at OESH are 3D printed (in Charlottesville, VA), made using our brains and robots. Grasshopper, an algorithmic design plug-in to Rhinoceros 3D, gives us the ability to adjust the placement and sizing of the base curves of our design. Combining industry knowledge and cutting edge programs, we are […]
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A Peek into the Athena Sole – It’s like Honey Here is what the inside of an Athena sole looks like, pictured in black instead of green. All those little honeycomb spring structures can only be made with 3D printing. Pretty neat, right? OESH Shoes 3D Printed Honeycomb Spring Infill Continue Reading
An electrifying week at OESH: Blowing a Fuse So this happened at OESH this week: We blew a fuse at OESH. Well, actually, we didn’t blow a fuse. An exuberant vine on one of our power line poles blew a fuse. It was a fuse for one of the three transformers for our 480 volt line that went kapooey. That meant all of our 480 volt machinery […]
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Make it in America – The book that caught our eye. This is the first book that caught my eye as I randomly wandered a random section of our public library. Last time I did this, the first book that caught my eye was a book on deep fried insects. The book is titled: Make it in America and incase you’re interested, we found it online here. Now THIS one […]
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