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The Swoosh was officially trademarked on June 18, 1971 and in June 1972, at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, Nike's first official track shoe, the Nike Cortez, was released to the athletes sporting the new Swoosh. [9] [5]
Peter Moore (February 21, 1944 – April 29, 2022 [1]) was an American designer and artist who was a Creative Director at Nike and Adidas from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Moore is credited as the creator of the [ 2 ] Air Jordan 1 silhouette [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and Nike Dunk silhouette.
They asked Davidson to design a stripe (industry term for a shoe logo) that "had something to do with movement". Davidson worked on her ideas by drawing on a piece of tissue over a drawing of a shoe. [6] She gave him five different designs, one of which was the Swoosh [7] which resembles a wing and hints at Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. [8]
Tinker Linn Hatfield Jr. (born April 30, 1952) is an American designer of numerous Nike athletic shoe models, including the Air Jordan 3 through Air Jordan 15, the twentieth-anniversary Air Jordan XX, the Air Jordan XXIII, the 2010 (XXV), the 2015 Air Jordan XX9 (XXIX), and other athletic sneakers including the world's first "cross training" shoes, the Nike Air Trainer.
Nike boasted that it became the first kid's shoe to garner the American Podiatric Medical Association's Seal of Acceptance. Nike says the shoe provides 360 degrees of pliable support.
Air Jordan is a line of basketball shoes produced by Nike, Inc. Related apparel and accessories are marketed under Jordan Brand.. The first Air Jordan shoe was produced for basketball player Michael Jordan during his time with the Chicago Bulls on November 17, 1984, and released to the public on April 1, 1985.
Michigan Wolverines logo and the jumpman logo at the Nike flagship store on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago during the week before the opening game for the 2016 Michigan Wolverines football team In 1997, Air Jordan selected the first Jordan Brand sponsored schools: Cincinnati Bearcats , St. John's Red Storm , and North Carolina A&T Aggies [ 13 ]
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