Monday, January 26, 2009

The story of Kihachiro Onitsuka, founder of the Asics shoe company: "Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection"

This short film was infinitely interesting. Did you know that the idea for the grips on the soles of basketball shoes was inspired by a piece of octopus in an Oriental salad? Neither did I!


(via Ashley Simko)

1 comments:

crispy said...

And this is why the Japanese handed our ass to us in electronics, consumer goods, and automobile production.