We found this really cool Flickr group today, High Heels and Art. Here are a few of the highlights. Go check it out, and add your own.

Black veils send me shivering the fear that part of me is dying

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Rosie Meres dances with Katy Carr et al. at the Royal Opera House

See You Jimmy..

Of course this is more art than shoe, but a pretty clever design to say the least. Let us hope that the oceans don’t rise enough for us to need these, but if they do, may those with the highest heels have a head start in escaping the flood. 

But seriously, in reality these were put together for a very good cause and were a clever way to give attention to Global Warming. 

What’s incredible is that someone, I don’t know where, has really put something almost identical on sale, as you can see on the first image of a shop window, calling them ‘High Tide Heels’.

via SeaWayBlog

Typeface design is an underappreciated art and can be quite difficult. Creating a font made out of high heels? Now that is impressive. We had to feature this cool typeface design by Zumra Waheed. These high heels are the result of a project for her letterforms and calligraphy class. This would make for great conversation art.

 ”experiment with different styles and forms however it turned out harder than I had expected …definitely hard to fit certain letter forms into the dynamic shapes of shoes. “O” for example… For which I settled with taking out an element of the shoe, which was a shoe strap, then shaped it as an ‘O’ just so that something else would not look too out of shape.” – Zumra

Nice job Zumra. Now if we can just get her to do one with shoes we sell?