I Design Shoes

I have been lucky enough to be a guest artist who designs shoes for the awesome shoe brand Bucketfeet! Bucketfeet brands itself as "artist designed footware," and they select artists from around the world to design custom artwork for their awesome sneakers. They feature artists from places like Hiroshima, Brooklyn, Rio de Janeiro, Atlanta, Bogota, Lagos, Toronto, Paris, LA, London, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and even me, Meryl in Oakland, CA. The thing that makes Bucketfeet even cooler is that they put their shoe sales into the pockets of their artists - for every shoe that sells, the artist that designed them gets a royalty. How cool is that? Pretty fucking cool.

I was part of the first group of featured guest artists and the first female artist that Bucketfeet launched with (many shoes designed by co-founder Aaron Firestein were already for sale).

You can purchase my current pair of Bucketfeet shoes - PATCHWORK - here

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These shoes were Bucketfeet's #2 best seller for the Summer of 2013. 

Blogger YoungHopeful featured my shoes while she gushed about how awesome Bucketfeet shoes are. 

They were featured in a Bucketfeet fashion post. 

And you can check out the short video Bucketfeet made about the launch of these shoes (and see adorable baby Zoe at 3 weeks old). 

And, if you act super fast, you can still get my first edition of Bucketfeet shoes - CTCM - in very limited quantities here. I was also really lucky to be featured in some awesome places

Mickey Boardman, editorial director of Paper Magazine featured them as a favorite fall essential.

I was featured in a guest interview on Oakland's own 38th notes website. 

Counterkicks gave me a shout out as the first Bucketfeet female artist. 

Ill Society Magazine promoted the launch of these shoes. 

I hope to be lucky enough to debut some new Bucketfeet kicks in the near future!

While you can always buy my Bucketfeet shoes online here, you can also visit some of these Brick and Mortar locations and purchase them:

Shoefly - Juneau, Alaska

Step 3 - Honolulu, Hawaii

City Soles - Chicago, Illinois

The Bunker - Kansas City, Missouri

Malibu - Ocean City, Maryland

Get Noticed - Richardson, Texas

Leaders - Chicago, Illinois

Millennium - Los Angeles, CA

Maven - Lafayette, Lousiana

And hopefully a Nordstrom near you sometime in the near future as Bucketfeet has just inked a deal with them to sell Bucketfeet shoes in 48 of their stores!