Michael DiTullo

Looks good Mikey!! _Joe

im not much of a basketball sneaker person, but this is very nice!

That's a cool idea.

thanks guys...

It's coming soon, there was a full page photo of it in the December issue of Dime magazine...

Nice!!!

love it!

Wow! Cool!

im buying that right damn now, thats the coolest bag idea ive seen for ages!

Nice! I like the detail of the tread on the toe. Is the Convex shape close to the ankle portion for support or protection...maybe both?

F A N T A S T I C ! ! !

Very Nice boot !!!

can i design the next with you

really sweet!!!!

great work!!!

nice sketch, good ink work

Lovely design Mike and the first time I've seen the electro-luminecent detail done with panache. Ace 'Tron' footwear!

i think this is a great concept and it has evolved well from sketch to finished design

where did the inspiration come from 4 dis design !??

HI Mike... So much time that I want to tell you how I love your style about Jordans & in your general work... ;-) Cheers, Fred

this a great work! very nice projects

really nice touch.

Great sketch sheet Michael. Final product is really faithful to the original intent too.

Finally. I sexier looking boot last. Those are hot.

really nice!

great layout :)

haha i just saw this on: http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://kicksguide.net/images/artist_series/sept_jordan_xx/arsen_rock_jordan_xx_250.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kicksguide.com/admin/artist_series_2004.asp%3FstrMonth%3Dsept&h=169&w=250&sz=31&hl=en&start=183&um=1&tbnid=7YG30hPjmLrQCM:&tbnh=75&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dshoe%2Betching%26start%3D180%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Nice way to present. It really pops!

Nice proposal Michael, I love the translucent skin - very different.

really nice concept!

Great work!

You designed that??!?!!? that bag is NICE!

Awesome ideation here. I can always count on your work for motivation to create. Thanks for the inspiration as usual.

sweet!

hummmm , it's very gooood!!!!

Great concept, nicely done, the design language of this bag speaks repetitiously.

lovely sketch

Wow! you just dont stop amazing me with your design skills. Congrats on some super concepts and detailing. Kind Regards-

the combination is unique and teh outcome is crazy i love them

Michael did you ever work with my friend Mike Lindow, Dave Pederson or Ben Kuchler? Anyway nice work I want a pair of your shoes.

i dont know if this has too much detail into it... well.. it's a DiTullo... It's gotta be good...

buying it

sweet~!!

wow. it is so cool~

I * AM * LOVING * IT *~ You Rock! Man

I would wear this!

Amazing design! One of my faves.

I love the translucency and the design. I'd wear this one too.

very nice, I'm a collector of the jordan shoes, ı wish ı have it...

Fantastic trainers!

wow! Very nice.

I live the style lines too - there is a a kind of soft 'angularity' that I find very modern... great work Mike.

fun!!

timeless look. nice shoe man.

insane render Mike!!

Mike,,,insane page!

one of the first downloads which went into my reference!

A sweet proposal Mike!!Insane!

You are one pro at detailing!!

Insane design!!awesome forms...very aggressive in nature!

Awesome Shoes! Loved the sole...

I feel the outsole/midsole was the most successful part of the shoe. This was one of my last Jordan projects and it was great to leave on a high note! It was a challenge to integrate to classic, very unique designs into one shoe.

This guy never went to production obviously, but I still love this sketch. This was the first project I worked on at Jordan.

Thanks guys. These were big seller, about 300k. I couldn't afford J's as a kid, so I would often draw them... I looked at these projects the same way, would they inspire a 14 yr old kid to draw shoes? Aesthetically, I wanted these to be a bit more approachable, a bit less spaceship like. From a performance standpoint, these are one of the highest scoring shoes from the Nike Sports Research Lab, max air heel, zoom air forefoot, great flex grooves, and bootie construction....

Thanks I like the upper left sketch series. I love exploring details like that.

I love this sneaker. Nice color combo.

great!!

must be in my jordan shoes collections, really cool...

beautiful!

awesome!

Finesse !! though I hate putting my bag on the floor.

WOW a Jordan boot?? Coooool!

very nice...cool...

Thanks. This proposal didn't make it past a few prototypes, but I always loved it. This sketch is from early 2006. Super fun drawing, I think I rendered it in about 20 minutes.

Thanks. I loved this shoe. Training shoe meets Basketball shoe. It was light and pretty iconic. I still see some dudes rocking them. It came out in 2006.

Hey Mike. What do use to generate the patterns? You must have a series of brushes or just texture layers? I love these shoe renders. Me gonna have to lay some outs man!!

Joe, do you mean the textures? The triangle is just a repeat pattern in the heal I made in illustrator, as is the perf pattern on the toe. The lining is a scan of a material that I applied with the texturizer tool in Photoshop. The collar lines are just an illustrator pattern that I applied using texturizer in photoshop.

You're clearly a master of PS rendering. I know this might be one of your trade secrets, but how on earth did you get a leathery texture on that render? I've been playing about for a while attempting it in PS.

I scanned a bunch of leathers. Once you have some good clean scans you can use the "texturizer" tool in PS.

Beautiful!!! Can I have those? :)

Thank you. They were on the market in 2006 I think...

Yeah , not in the middle east I guess, i think I remember I saw them on some website. Is this a 2 layers of EVA at midsole?

Your work is really inspiring.

Thanks everyone!

very clean and so well thought out

gr8 design...

cool...

Thanks fellas, this was done back in 2005.... hard to believe it was only 5 years ago.

thanks all.

Ooooh,,,nice Mike!

amazing work!liking the play of layers at the counter!

great job impeccable

Thanks, this was a late development concept sketch right before techpack. I ended up transferring to Converse to lead the Portland based studio on the Nike Campus, so the final design was overseen by another designer, and it evolved far away from this sketch, which I still love.

Really nice, heel and tooling make it shine!

Nice sketches..Mike

Thanks all.

i love this shoe. i played ball in it for about a year, normally i don't buy jordans, too expensive and i destroy my shoes on the asphalt, but i had access to the nike company store, half off, love the clean lines

Thanks everyone.

I had those in my store and they sold well Michael, pretty comfy as well

cooll !!

Grt8 work!

Thanks fellas

The dress shoe concept looks Professional.

Superb!!!

Awesome job!! keep up the good work !