Nicco Pintac
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Bloom Climbing Shoes

Climbing shoes with printed textiles

Climbing shoes are built for performance and almost never for personality. Bloom pairs precision friction rubber with bold printed textiles.

Discipline
Footwear design
Made with
Friction rubber, printed textiles
Stage
Concept
Designer
Nicco Pintac, Manila
Dark floral and pink floral Bloom climbing shoes on moss among flowers

Most shoes on the market put utility first and leave little room for expression. Bloom closes that gap, with precision-engineered rubber textures for friction and moody dark florals or a vibrant light pink on the upper.

The idea is that technical gear can be a canvas for individual expression without giving anything up on the wall.

01

From one line sketch

The collection grew from a single clean line sketch of the shoe. I took it into Vizcom, an AI design tool for industrial designers, and used its node-style workflow to turn the sketch into renders.

The nodes gave me the control I needed: fast iteration, precise material mapping and colorway testing, while keeping the construction technical.

Clean line sketch of the climbing shoe
Base line sketch
Black and white climbing shoe render generated from the line sketch
First render from the sketch
Vizcom node workspace with Bloom iterations
Vizcom node workflow
02

Two versions, two moods

The collection comes in two silhouettes, a slip-on and a dual-velcro strap version, and two palettes: moody dark florals and a vibrant light pink. The prints run over the upper while the rubber stays technical.

Dark floral slip-on climbing shoe
Slip-on, dark floral
Light pink floral slip-on climbing shoe
Slip-on, light pink
Dual-velcro dark floral climbing shoe on a green backdrop
Dual-velcro, dark floral
Floral textile prints in dark and pink
Textile prints
03

On the wall

Lifestyle visuals put both colorways on rock, where they're meant to be seen.

Climber lacing up the dark floral shoe at the base of a rock face
Dark floral
Pink floral shoe on a limestone hold
Light pink
Work together

Have a product, a shoe or a render in mind?

I'm Nicco Pintac, a Filipino industrial, product and footwear designer based in Manila. I'm open to freelance and full-time work, remotely or in the Philippines. Send a brief, a rough sketch or just a question.

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