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ATHEIST BLOG
Das Atheist Boot ist Hier!
We were proud to launch our new high-top this month! It's made from a soft, untreated leather, comes in three dashing colours (petrol, mustard & bitter chocolate) and is just as ridiculously comfortable as our shoes. Some more pics inside from a fun day's shooting we had with our chums Yanus, Stephanie, Nana and Anja...
Our new ATHEIST Shoes Menagerie / Workshop / Drop-in-centre is open!
We were delighted on June 14th to formally open our new space to the world, in a really characterful location on Ritterstrasse 12, in Kreuzberg, Berlin. We're so happy to have this space and we look forward to having visitors! We're still figuring out our opening hours, but for starters we'll definitely be there every Thursday and Friday, 12 to 7pm and please email us at hello@atheistberlin.com if you want to make sure we're there any other time.... which we most likely will be .)
More photos here.
It’s one year since we came into being as a Kickstarter project!
And what an extraordinary year it's been since :)
Here's our Kickstarter video, shoulder-kitten and all.
And the Kickstarter page itself.
We're forever indebted to the 385 people who helped get us started. Thank you so much for making our peculiar little business possible.
Shoulder Kitten, how we miss you :(
Some ideas we’re prototyping…
It's been a wonderful last few months, as we've launched this website and managed to sell heaps of shoes to people all over the world. It's also been an incredibly busy period, which has made it difficult to find the time to design and prototype new ideas. Alas, the last few weeks we've been spending more and more time in the workshop, and here are some of the new products we've been dreaming up... some of which might one day even make it into our webshop!
Happy Darwin Day!
And rather fittingly, here's a picture of Matthew Chapman, Great Great Grandson of Charles Darwin wearing our "Charlie D" shoes!
“Utterly Brilliant” – FAST COMPANY DESIGN chooses ATHEIST as one of their products of the year, 2012
Well, this means an awful lot to us. One of the most influential and tasteful design publications there is has chosen our shoes as one of their favourite products of 2012.
And not because of the Atheist branding, but because of the integrity and aesthetics of the design. We put so much effort into creating the perfect shoe, sticking as closely as we could to principles of Bauhaus design and trying to bring back a minimalist aesthetic that has been missing from shoe design in recent years. And we couldn't be happier with the result - a shoe that feels elegant yet casual, simple yet attention-grabbing, incredibly comfortable but with only a minimum of materials... and classic, as if of the 1930s, whilst at the same time feeling new, different and somehow a step forward.
Thank you to everyone at Fast Company Design!
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