This might be something that I shouldn't talk about on a public site, but I've decided to go forwards with it none the less. I've been having a lot of ups and downs at this new job.... and honestly it's because of the people. Politics at a job drive me nuts, but it's the rationing of the person behind the politics that makes me about as mad as when I'm dealing with the traffic here on a Friday trying to go home.

So earlier this week I ran into something that I'm sure most professional designer and artists or for that matter artists on any level deal with. Attention Whores and Glory Hogs.

So to make a Sneaker look great you have to work with other people and not just yourself. You need the designer to lay out the concept colors and what not, you need the developer to lay down if you can or can't do it and if it is in the price range and doing materials testing and gathering to make something look slick. Then you need a marketing person to show the idea/prototype to the client and SELL IT to them, or give you feed back why it might not work, but they also need to take risks to push the new projects.

Then at the end of a day when a shoe sells and it flies off the shelves you show give your team props and you make it known who you worked with.

That wasn't the case this past week.

A project I was asked to jump on hit it big and got some press. I worked on the colors based off another project's colors that will drop in the spring. I'll be sure to share that with you guys. Anyways, The colors came out good on the projects the client liked em and then the developer on the team hooked it up with some of the best materials he could find after we made some suggestions on some materials. He did a great job on it too because it looked like my Photoshoped image. He even was able to hook up a new tongue logo emboss that came out sweet.

Then after that about 6 months pass and I didn't hear anything. Except whispers....

I heard that the project went over well and there was even some good press on the way... but i only head it because people were talking about it a few cubes away. I guess they thought it was sound proof.... then there was some kind of release party... didn't get invited.... then the press HIT when I stumbled upon it on a high profile site. Standing there holding the shoe was somebody who was sited as being the designer on the project.... when they were the Product Manager.

I could feel my heart Shatter at that point. Then it made me question if all the projects I've worked on to that point were given credit to this same person when they did well.

So at this point I just feel like that person can take the BS press. I mainly take issue with If I post it up in my gallery will I have to worry about getting flamed because it's posted somewhere else that it was done by this other guy when it was really done by me and the developer. I should just say Fuck it and show you all anyways.

Also in only a month or Two I'll be able to share with you guys the projects I first worked on when I started in 2008. The Shoe's style just dropped called the ML525 but those aren't my colors or material choices, YET.

plus There will be 3 other sneaker styles that will be dropping with my art on them. 3 Womens shoes and 2 Mens.