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4-SEP-2025 | Tom Sachs x Nike’s “Creativity is the enemy” Ad

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Tom Sachs x Nike’s “Creativity is the enemy” Ad

I’m a Tom Sachs fanboy, so this one’s extra cool to me.
Also, peep this article for the ideas behind the shoe.

Creativity is the enemy.

Just because you can doesn’t always mean you should. Resist newness for newness’ sake. Build on a proven foundation and innovate incrementally. Study what came before: its shape, its weight, its colors, who it’s for and what it does. Use, observe, design, build, test, fail, repeat. True development is the practice of continuous refinement.

This sneaker is a product of our ongoing research into how our bodies meet the ground. We opened up the archive, wore it out, stripped it down, kept what worked and added what was missing in pursuit of a perennial sneaker. An ever-better sneaker. A never-settle sneaker. A round-the-clock, made-to-last, built-to-code sneaker.

“It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.”

The NikeCraft General Purpose Shoe. $109.99 available September 1st at nikecraft.com and September 2nd worldwide. 🏁

  • The hook is “wrong.” Your brain goes “huh?” and oops, you’re a few sentences in. May as well finish reading 😉 

  • “You” and “we” language throughout.

  • Great use of repetition as a device for elaboration.