Franck Boistel

Footwear/Product Designer, Creative Director in the Action Sports, Lifestyle, Outdoor, Fashion, Casual, Tactical, Athletic Footwear categories for Men, Women And Children. Footwear Design, Footwear development, design direction, design team leading.
Past and present clients are:
UNPARALLEL SPORTS - Ca.
VOLCOM - Ca.
SAOLA - France
BATA - Toronto
FIVETEN - Ca
TOMS - Santa Monica, Ca
RWORLD - San Clemente, CA.
SALOMON - Annecy, France
CHROME Industries - San Francisco, Ca
CLAE - Ca
LEVIS - Ny
IPATH -Torrance, Ca
ALMOND footwear - Germany
BURTON SNOWBOARDS - Va

Footwear Designer Lead for all footwear product at 5.11 Tactical. Including consumer and professional.

Footwear team Lead Designer for the Outdoor, Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking categories.

For over 8 years, at Sole Technology, Franck Boistel presented the market with truly unique designs, starting with the first Chad Muska pro shoe on Es, continuing on with Marc Johnson pro model, Ed Templeton’s footwear, Eric Koston pro shoes, and many more. FB designed and produced some of the best selling shoes in the skateboard industry for a time like the Scheme on Es, the czar, the Callicut and the Arto Saari pro shoe on Etnies, the Tilt, Marc Johnson, Ed Templetons, and the ratio on Emerica. FB designed and develop Thirty-two boots since 1997 with a special focus on the team two and team one boots as well as many others since 1997. At Sole Technology, as FB was for a while the only designer, then the senior, and as the company was growing every year, he was at the forefront of all new projects such as the design and launch of the Etnies girl category, the surf category, the outdoor category, the kids category, and the Etnies Plus line. For ES footwear, as the official designer of the brand for many years, FB offered the market with best sellers and produced some of the most technologically advanced skateboard footwear in the market. He also came up with the idea of the Gel-Air cushioning system, working with Trevor Hill and Jason Smith on a better adapted cushioning system for skateboarders, now used in all the sole Technology brands to these days under the name G2 systems.