Designer Martino Gamper explains how he repurposed the Flyknit material Nike uses in its shoes to create drum skins in our next movie from the sports brand’s The Nature of Motion exhibition in Milan.
Gamper’s contribution to Nike’s The Nature of Motion show, which presented installations by an array of international designers exploring the concept of movement, was a series of colourful drum sets.
“For this project, I wanted to explore the the idea of rhythm – the rhythm in running, the rhythm in drumming, the rhythm in music,” Gamper says in the movie, which Dezeen produced for Nike.
“I created a series of drum kits and I used Flyknit technology as the drum skins.”
Nike’s Flyknit material is a flexible, breathable textile made from synthetic yarns. It is usually used by the brand to make uppers for sports shoes that are knitted in one piece like a sock.
Gamper made three sets of drums using the material – a classic rock drum kit, a cocktail drum kit and a set of marching band drums – with each drum featuring a different pattern.
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