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Customatix (later "Cmax") was a Santa Cruz, California-based seller of made-to-order footwear launched in May 2000. The parent company, Solemates, Inc., was founded in 1999 by former Adidas executives Dave Ward, Irmi Kreuzer, Mikal Peveto and David Solk.
Industry | Shoes |
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Founded | 2000 |
Fate | Defunct |
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The Customatix.com website allowed the user to customize one of several shoe designs and purchase a pair of shoes. Each basic shoe design featured a large selection of customizable parameters, including choice of component materials and colors, plus text and graphics, allowing trillions of possible variations.[1]
The web application was created by a dot com engineering company called Lutris Technologies. The Chief Designer was Noel Barnes and Production Manager was Daryl L Tempesta. The Cmax project was published in the magazine "HOW". Over 1 million images were created. Some shoes had 3 billion trillion combinations [citation needed].
Customized shoes were manufactured in China and shipped directly to the customer.
By mid-2004, the website had gone offline.
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edit- ^ Cruickshank, Leon (2016). Open Design and Innovation: Facilitatin Creativity in Everyone. Routledge. ISBN 9781317085546. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
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