Franck Boistel: Footwear Designer - Design Director in sedona, Arizona
Work experience
Franck Boistel Design
FREE LANCE FOOTWEAR DESIGNER CREATIVE DIRECTOR | 01/2005 - Current
Designer, product management, product developer on special projects or entire
collections for several action sports, fashion, lifestyle, outdoor, casual, footwear brands
including:
IPATH - BURTON snowboards - O'NEIL -BEBE- SANUK - ROXY - ZIPZ -
MANITOBAH MUKLUKS - VINTAGE sport - FLOW snowboards, PRAXIS footwear,
THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT footwear - LEVIS - CHROME - SALOMON - VISION
511 Tactical
FOOTWEAR DESIGNER LEAD | 01/2017 - 07/2023
First full time Senior Footwear Designer to create and develop all footwear
for 511 tactical. Achieved best seller for multiple styles over the course of 5 years.
ADIDAS
FOOTWEAR DESIGNER LEAD FIVETEN | 01/2016 - 12/2017
Design and Develop and direct industry leading creative solutions for concepts and categories, created a highly relevant, desirable and clear Fiveten brand image
Lead and manage the internal creative team to achieve worldclass results in Fiveten
footwear categories, Namely: Outdoor, Climbing and Biking.
FBDESIGN
Footwear Designer - Design Director | 03/2005 - 09/2016
Creative Director for a portfolio of clients in the action sports, outdoor, surf, skate, lifestyle, fashion footwear industries.
SOLE TECHNOLOGY
LEAD FOOTWEAR DESIGNER | 01/1997 - 12/2005
Design and assist building and managing the Etnies, Etnies girl Etnies Plus, ES,
Emerica, Thirty-two footwear brands, resulting in regular increases in all categories over the course of Nine years.
Helped Launch etnies girl, created the etnies girl logo, launch etnies Plus, launch the
etnies surf category, launch etnies outdoor, designed 80% of all pro models for all sole
technology brands, including best sellers such as Etnies Callicut, Arto Saari, Fielder,
ES Scheme, Mike Vallely pro shoe, Andrew Reynolds, some of which are still in the line as of today and re-launched as timeless classic sof the brands.