So I designed my own Sneaker today

I always buy Nike here because they're the only shoe company that consistently makes size 12 's. Usually I get stuck with whatever color and style I can get. All the really cool shoes are Japan only and therefore only go up to size 11. Things are getting worse, too. It seems like there are fewer options every time I go.

Only now, you can design your own shoes with Nike ID. I'd seen it before, but at the time they only had one or two generic designs to choose from, and all you could do was tweak colors. But now they have a wide range of shoe templates and colors, and you can even choose the materials. So I sat down and put this together at the store in about ten minutes. Everyone in the self-design corner seemed to be getting really into it. Click on the link and give it a try.

The goal with this was to take a really stylish sports sneaker, but to cast it in conservative colors, so I can wear them at work on a casual day and so they match my other clothes. I like the modern sneaker designs, but I can't stand all the gaudy, barf-neon yellow colors they always come in.

I wanted to get a classic, two-tone 1950's golf shoe/bowling shoe vibe, so I did the black and white theme. I made sure the base was black so it won't look scuffy if they get a bit dirty. Then I gave it a gold swoosh to give it a touch of distinction and pizzaz, and a subtle green rim and outline...not too much, nothing to overwhelm it or throw the basic black/white design out of balance.

You can emboss a 10-character message on the inner side. I had no idea what to call it and putting my own name seemed lame, so since it was November 4th today, I just wrote "Obama '08" to commemorate the day. Am I obsessed with this election? Yeah, pretty much.