New Balance, an American sports footwear manufacturer, teamed up with Counterkicks, the web-resource showcasing the news of footwear, to run a design contest aimed at finding the most innovative idea for an iconic and lightweight New Balance Sprint Spike shoes. Every pitch was evaluated by the panel of judges based on the following criteria: inspiration and story, innovation, and execution. This criterias were used by the judges (professionals from New Balance design team including Brett Golliff, JF Fullum, Kyle Strek) based on the criterias of evaluation for professional projects they normally use at work.

Red Bull Wake of Fame marks the next generation of wakeboarding and wakeskating as it pushes the boundaries of the sport. At the legendary Ft. Lauderdale Aquatic Complex that is nestled just behind the International Swimming Hall of Fame (Florida, the USA), there are three pools that typically host world champion swimmers and divers but on December 3 it will transform into a “wake park” and become the newest playground for the industry’s top riders.

While most of brands spend the pre-Christmas time celebrating the season and musing over the biggest events and achievements of the year, the others use this time as a chance to unveil what they’ve got in store for their consumers in the year to come.

adidas, the world’s leading manufacturer of top class sport and casual clothing, revealed their Spring/Summer 2011 collection of footwear and denim clothes. The brand invited representatives of mass media and urged them to keep the place, date as well as any names a secret until the official announcement of the event comes out.

Red Bull asked Tracy Lee Stum, one of the most prominent 3D artists or our days and a Guinness record-breaker, to decorate the floor of Skate Park of Tampa for the parks upcoming 17th Annual Tampa Am skateboarding competition. The huge art work (15 meters wide and 2 meters high) was painted on the skating surface features two angry bulls (which are red, of course).

Nike is sure that destruction underlies creation. The iconic sportswear brand has launched a new movement “Destroy To Create” to pay tribute to people who break the old to build the new. The campaign’s seems a bit gritty, still it conveys good messages and features people who managed to introduce their unprecedented visions, somewhat contradicting to previously adopted principles, to the world—and be heard.

On November 9, adidas exclusively unveiled the new spring/summer 2011 Women’s TechFit™ collection at the spectacular Stadtbad Oderberger in Berlin. This very feminine TechFit™ apparel was developed in collaboration with the Staatsballett Berlin, which features the most recent adidas ambassador Alessandra Pasquali, together with some of the many ballerinas from this international ballet company.