What Your Favorite Sneaker Designers Do When They’re Not Designing Sneakers

From Tinker Hatfield to Dan Gamache, we take a look at what some of the most iconic sneaker designers do on their spare time.

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Designing for a sneaker brand is a never-ending, constantly demanding job. Seasons are created, sampled, tested, scrapped, and restarted, day in and day out every quarter, every year. It’s a constant struggle of compromising creative pulls with market trends, while accountants claim the best colors for the industry. Every designer needs an escape away from the job, and each is unique to the designer. We caught up with some to find out what they do when they’re not designing, while others, who we’ve lost to history, have left clues to their hobbies behind them.

Salehe Bembury – Drawing (and Fishing)

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Jon Tang – Comics

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Paul Lee – Family

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Jake Ferrato – Food, Books, and Chess

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Tinker Hatfield – Surfing

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Nathan VanHook – Architecture and Industrial Design

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The Hyde Family – Civil Service

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Bill Bowerman – Jogging

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Alex Crawford – Running

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Adi Dassler – Soccer

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Dan Gamache – Softball

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