Why we never restore a pair before shooting it
Re-dyeing a midsole makes a better photograph and a worse document. A note on what gets lost when a shoe is made to look new.
Read soon/ Field notes
Therecord
Field notes are the working papers of the studio. Some are method, some are materials, and some are arguments we have not settled internally yet. We publish them because a claim nobody can check is only a slogan. Every entry is written by the person who did the work, and corrected in public when it turns out to be wrong.
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14 MAY 2026
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01 / Index
How to read an outsole
Tread wear records pronation, surface and mileage. Here is how we log it, and what it reveals that a spec sheet cannot.
Read soonThe yellowing problem
Translucent rubber oxidises. Polyurethane crumbles. A plain account of how sneaker materials fail, and on what timescale.
Read soonLicensing a sneaker archive
Why every image here is CC0 or public domain, how we verify that, and what it means for anyone who wants to reuse the work.
Read soonFull entries are still being edited - no detail pages are published yet, so none of the rows above link anywhere. Want one early? Mail archive@veloce.studio and we will send the working file.