Eric avar biography

Eric Avar '90 (industrial design), Nike's vice president of design innovation, is behind some of the company's most innovative designs.
Avar joined NIKE in 1991 and has since designed some of the brand's most innovative and best selling shoes including the FOAMPOSITE, HYPERDUNK.
Eric Avar is the mastermind behind most of the Kobes.

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Let me start this designer profile by acknowledging the number of times I had to say to myself “I can’t leave these out” to only leave shoes out of this conversation.

There are too many iconic designs in this man’s catalog to name them all so we’re touching on the greatest hits.

Eric Avar stands as one of the Swoosh’s transcendent designers and his contributions have undoubtedly shaped Nike Basketball into the Goliath it is today. The trajectory of signature shoes from all-time great ballers like Kobe Bryant, Penny Hardaway and Gary Payton (among a laundry list of others) would look vastly different if it wasn’t for Eric Avar’s keen ability to create footwear that’s bold yet relatable.

“Good design is a balance between art and science — bold expression and just enough familiarity.”- Eric Avar

Footwear design became a real passion for Eric when he mixed two of his greatest loves – art and sport. His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was an artist so problem-solving skills and creativity flow

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Eric Avar has designed some crazy shoes and I remain a fan of his more outlandish creations, even if they’re impossible to wear with jeans. Seeing Foamposites, Flight 95s or original Frees being retroed is either a testament to the fact they’re still ahead of their time, an admission of defeat — that something that insane won’t be made again – or a pointless endeavour, because they were the antithesis of backward glances when it came to design. I still don’t know. What I do know is that Avar thinks differently (working with Tinker Hatfield, he co-created a lot of ACG classics and the mighty Flight Huarache). This whole shoe thing is played out, but I’ll always investigate anything that Eric Avar has created. After the initial excitement over the low-cut fourth Kobe design (I still count it as the sixth Kobe shoe, because the Huarache 2K4 and 2K5 are part of the story — taking adidas into consideration, it was probably the eleventh Kobe shoe), I always felt that shock of the new was dulled a little by variations on a theme for the next four chapters.

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Erick Avari

Indian-American actor (Born 1952)

Erick Avari (born Nariman Erick Avari;^[1] 13 April 1952) is an Indian-American actor whose roles in science-fiction and action productions include Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Mummy (1999),^[2] as well as the historical drama The Chosen (2019).

Early life

Erick Avari was born on 13 April 1952 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, into a ParsiZoroastrian family. His father, Erach Dinshaw Avari, ran two movie theatres, the Capital and the Rink. His early education was at the North Point School, which he attended as a day-scholar. He later studied at the College of Charleston.

Avari is a member of the Avari-Madan family of Darjeeling and Calcutta. His great-great-grandfather was Jamshedji Framji Madan, one of the pioneers of Indian cinema.

Career

Avari is one of only two actors, along with Alexis Cruz, to appear in both the original Stargate movie and the continuing TV series Stargate SG-1 (three episodes). Before arriving in Los Angeles in 1991, his extensiv