A year has gone by and it’s time to announce SOURCE’s annual Strap Design competition. With over a 1000 new designs, last year’s competition was successful and imaginative, making it very hard for us to choose the winners.

Meet Adi Shpigel and Keren Tomer, one set of winners of the Source 2012 Strap Design Contest. Shpigel & Tomer, the founders and driving force behind Kulla, an Industrial Design Studio based here in Israel, answered a few of our questions about themselves, the contest and their winning designs

We are pleased to announce that after long and careful consideration we have selected the straps that will be included in our 2012 collection!
Participation in this year’s competitions exceeded our expectations, making choosing the winners a much more difficult task.

Routeburn-Track

I’ve hiked in seven different countries and explored some interesting terrain, but nothing comes close to hiking in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. While there are many beautiful hikes offered in the United States, Northern Canada, Africa, Southern Europe and South America, in my opinion, none of them compare to the Routeburn Track in New Zealand

Wow… We never expected such a response! 1107 new strap designs were submitted! Yes, we’ve developed a fun new internet application to design straps online, but we never thought so many new and surprising ideas will be submitted. I’d like to thank you all for your ideas and effort. We’ll have a hard time choosing

In anticipation of the development of the SOURCE 2012 sandal collection, we invite you to join the sandal strap design competition. The winning designs will be featured in sandal models to be sold in Israel, the United States, Europe, Australia, and the Far East starting in January 2012. The designers whose creations win the competition [...]

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Outdoor show, Friedrichshafen, Hall B1-204.