There is an apparent anomaly that spans from the indiscriminate use of the much overworked term “design”. But for this, it would have suffice to call this module shoe designing. designing a shoe is something more than drawing a pleasant upper, a fact sometimes overlooked when the designer has received training in art and has not acquired necessary knowledge of shoe function and construction .on the other hand, the technician who becomes a designer often lacks the necessary appreciation of the basic ideas of  line ,form and colour and may tend to use ornaments indiscriminately without relation to the whole design. A shoe designer, in the correct sense of the title is both an artist and a technician

At B-EAZY ACADEMY, our guiding principle for shoe designing is a four legged stood of which the top forms the design resting on four legs of purpose, material, method and fashion

The aim of this module is to ensure that students are able to develop functional and technically correct foot wear patterns for any footwear whatsoever  while taking cognisance of fissionability 

There can be very few materials in the world which at some time or the other have not been used for shoes- leather, fabric, wood, plastic, metal, brass, glass, and grass. However, the two controlling factors have always been and will always be availability and suitability.

From time immemorial, leather has been the pre-eminent shoe material and it is essential that a shoe designer understands why it has achieved and maintains this position by virtue of its unique physical properties if he or she is to produce a design suitable for the intended purpose and at the same time practicable from the manufacturing standpoint. this does not imply that a shoe designer must choose leather, but it is true to say that any other material which has proved to be suitable for shoes invariably has one or more of the properties of leather .cutting across Availability, Area, Elasticity, and Plasticity, Strength and Stretch, Flexibility, Permeability, Thermal conductivity, surface characteristics, ease of working, etc.

The purpose of this module is to expose students to a variety of materials available for shoemaking, and their suitability  it will particularly zoom in on leather, its anatomy, the suitability of its different parts for different components of the upper, preservation, k storage, and clicking/cutting optimization (especially with leather )

Closing is the name we have given to the preparation, fitting together, (assembling) and stitching of the various cut  sections to produce the completed (closed) upper in readiness for lasting the module will cover such sections as

• Preparation of upper for stitching,
• Marking (notch, lining, and stitch)
• Skiving,
• Perforating,
• Edge treatment,
• Stitching, types of stitching  and machine maintenance,
• binding

 This module treats in detail all that concerns the bottom part of the shoe  the insole, heels, soles, welt etc, a wide variety of materials is discussed  including how they are cut from different materials in readiness to meet the upper for

Generally, lasting machines have attempted to reproduce hand methods and the various hand pincer twists and pulls have been copied into the machines. And more recently, automatic lasting machines have evolved. However, hand lasting still survives, because it is the foundation of machine methods; for surgical and bespoke work it is still the normal method since each shoe can receive individual special treatment not possible by machine

This module will cover such sub modules as drafting, hand welting, stiffener insertion, bottom filling shanking, pulling over and lasting

This module treats the attaching of soles to the lasted upper both the use of Nitrocellulose adhesive and Neoprene are treated extensively.

It is difficult to give adequate reasons for some of the titivating done in finishing except to describe it as an expression of craftsmanship in the same way as some of the Victorian furniture was embellished. However, it is generally considered that finishing operations fall under two headings—the useful and the ornamental. It is not always possible to separate entirely these two groups as some useful operations may be considered very decorative, Such a process is edge trimming which is primarily concerned with shape and appearance, but without the smoothing of the edge, wax penetration and sealing would be done,

Others will include, spray dressing, insole stamping and embossing, upper cleaning, ironing and dressing and ornamental attachment