First Friday “All Paul Show” | Designbox

FIRST FRIDAY OPENING November 6 :: 6p-9p
RUNS November 9 thru November 27 :: weekdays 11a-4p
DESIGNBOX 307 W. Martin St. Raleigh NC 27601

Stop by Designbox on First Friday, November 6, to see the many works of local celebrity artist, Paul Friedrich, including:

Limited Edition 2015 Lyf Shoes
Onion Head Monster 2006 series prints
Lighthouse 2014 series paintings
Hong Kong 2007 series paintings
Cowboy 2014 series paintings
Cats 2012 series paintings

Paul is the first artist to have his work featured as a Lyf Shoes Artist Collection, featuring 5 of his favorite pieces on 5 locally-made pair of shoes. You can pre-order your own pair of custom-made Paul Shoes for just $300! Paul Friedrich gift items are also available, including t-shirts, books, and stickers.

Curious how Lyf Shoes works?
First, the selected artwork is digitally printed onto canvas. Next, the canvas is hand-sewn to the other shoe parts which are 3D printed in-house at Designbox–that’s right, every inch of these shoes are locally made! Each pair of shoes is designed for disassembly so that it can be Lyf-cycled into a new pair of shoes at the end of its useful life, so nothing (and we mean NOTHING) ends up in the landfill. Pretty cool, right?!

About Paul Friedrich:
Known for his humorous paintings with characteristic bold colors and lines based on his Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel “Onion Head Monster,” Paul Friedrich is considered one of the artists and writers in the forefront of the LowDefPop art movement. Paul is the co-founder of the SPARKcon conference, the South’s pre-eminent conference on creativity, member of the award winning DesignBox, created the graffiti mural at Marbles Kids Museum and has been selected each year for the CAT Bus Art-on-the-Move project, editor of HellCar Magazine, two-time champion of the Xtreme Suburban Endurance Event, as well as author/illustrator of several books, including “Lions!,” “Don’t Trust Evil Knievel,” and “The Wolf Who Cried Boy.” In 2009 Paul became the National Hockey Leagues first ever pop-cartoonist with the launch of Stormy the Pig’s CUP OF AWESOME comic strip.