David Bo

- Design Team Support: Provide comprehensive assistance to the design team in pattern creation and the development of lasts, heels, soles, and outsoles, ensuring a streamlined process for footwear innovation. - Prototype Management: Supervise and oversee the production of initial prototypes, including specification sheet reviews. Facilitate adjustments to uppers, lasts, and constructions to align with design requirements. - Supplier Evaluation: Conduct thorough supplier analysis based on product typology, guaranteeing that aesthetics and comfort are optimised in the final product. - Database Optimisation: Regularly update and maintain a detailed database of lasts, heel heights, and footwear types, enabling efficient access to filtered information for the design team. - Quality Assurance: Oversee and confirm fitting tests, grading processes, and production standards, ensuring consistency and excellence in final output.

Master “Artisanal patternmaking”

Master “Artisanal patternmaking”

- Collection Design: Conceptualise and create cohesive collections that align with brand identity and market trends, ensuring innovation and aesthetic appeal. - Development of Lasts and Pre-fabricated Components: Oversee the design and refinement of lasts and pre-fabricated elements to guarantee optimal functionality and comfort in finished products. - Pattern Adjustment and Component Extraction: Execute precise adjustments to patterns and manage the extraction of individual components, maintaining accuracy and consistency throughout the design process. - Sample and Production Control: Supervise the quality control of samples and oversee production stages, ensuring alignment with design specifications and standards.

- Strategic Collection Design: Lead the development of comprehensive and innovative collections, ensuring alignment with brand vision, market trends, and customer expectations. - Advanced Development of Lasts, Moulds, and Pre-fabricated Components: Manage the design and refinement of lasts, moulds, and pre-fabricated elements, guaranteeing precision, quality, and consistency across all designs. - Material Research and Selection: Conduct in-depth analysis and strategic sourcing of premium leathers and materials, ensuring they meet both aesthetic and functional requirements. - Precision in Pattern Adjustment and Component Preparation: Perform meticulous adjustments to patterns and oversee the precise preparation of components to ensure adherence to technical and design specifications. - Comprehensive Fitting and Grading Tests: Direct and validate thorough fitting and grading trials to achieve superior comfort, functionality, and scalability in final products. - Excellence in Sample and Production Oversight: Implement robust quality assurance protocols across sampling and production stages, ensuring flawless execution and alignment with design prototypes and production standards.

- Collection Design for Orthopedic Solutions: Develop comprehensive and innovative collections with a focus on addressing the unique needs of orthopedic customers, ensuring a perfect blend of functionality, aesthetics, and comfort. - Custom Last Design for Orthopedic Applications: Create precision-engineered, custom lasts tailored to the anatomical requirements of orthopedic patients, prioritising biomechanical accuracy and support. - Design of Heels, Soles, Wedges, and Orthotic Insoles: Specialise in crafting structural and ergonomic components, including heels, soles, wedges, and custom orthotic insoles, to enhance comfort, posture, and overall foot health. - Rapid Development of Orthopedic Prototypes: Lead the creation of rapid prototypes to facilitate testing, evaluation, and iteration of orthopedic footwear designs, ensuring effective and timely solutions.

-Course Title: Footwear Design and Pattern Adjustment Using CAD Tools Institution: University of Montford (UK) Overview: This advanced course equips students with the skills to design footwear and adjust patterns using cutting-edge Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools. With a focus on digital precision and efficiency, participants will master industry-standard platforms such as 3D PLUS and SiPECO, paving the way for innovative and professional-grade footwear development. Key Learning Modules: 1. Footwear Design with 3D PLUS: Explore the fundamentals and advanced techniques of creating digital footwear designs, including 3D modelling and visualisation to ensure aesthetic and functional excellence. 2. Pattern Adjustment with 3D PLUS and SiPECO: Dive into the technical aspects of adjusting patterns using CAD technologies. Learn how to achieve precision and streamline the production process for varied footwear designs. Outcome: By the end of the course, students will possess the expertise to seamlessly integrate CAD tools into the footwear design and manufacturing process, enhancing both creativity and efficiency in a competitive industry.

Course: "Design of foot orthoses using SOLETEC software" for technicians from the CNNC (Tunisia)

Course: "Bespoke Footwear Design using CAD Tools" for technicians from the LTC (Egypt). Last Design FORMA 3D. Pattern Adjustment and Part Extraction 3D PLUS and SIPECO.

Course: “Artisanal patternmaking”

Course: "Custom Footwear Design Using CAD Tools" for CNNC Technicians (Tunisia). - Last Design with FORMA 3D: Focuses on creating and customizing shoe lasts using advanced 3D modeling techniques. - Pattern Adjustment and Component Extraction with 3D PLUS and SIPECO: Involves fine-tuning patterns and generating parts with precision using these specialized tools.

Sketching and pattermaking

Pattermaking

Patternmaking