Horseshoe trainer
- MIHO AKUTSU

- Mar 5
- 2 min read
This time we will introduce the currently available trainer, Horseshoe!
Thanks to you, our horse-designed products have been very well received.
I'd like to give you a little background on this design.
Although the horse and horseshoe are fused together, they were originally separate designs.
The silhouette of the horse was decided, but the shape of the horseshoe was hard to decide on.
Anyway, I just kept drawing.
(As a result, my PC was full of horseshoes lol)
And what will you print next?
I like to use the same color as the fabric, so I decided to use a different red than the sweatshirt.
I used a variety of colors to create different shades of red.
(This is the first time the palette has been all red.)
However, none of the reds seemed right, so I changed direction.
I wanted to make it in black or white to give it a more striking look, so I made a prototype.
I tried using regular ink, but it soaked into the fabric and didn't give the finish I had envisioned...
That's when I realized! The design would look sharper if it was three-dimensional!
So we used special ink to make it foam and give it a three-dimensional look, which resulted in the image we had in mind.
It is only by continuing to try and error over and over again without compromising that we can create something that satisfies us.
Konosuke Matsushita's famous quote
"If you quit when you fail, that's failure. If you keep going until you succeed, that's success."
"There is no such thing as failure if you keep going until you succeed. There is only success."
There are many times when I have a hard time prototyping a product, but I have to keep going until I'm satisfied.
That would be something I would regret, so these words are a great encouragement and a great push for me.




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