Statement

What’s good everybody, my name is Erick Ikeda and I was born and made in LA.

I was a kid that was always infatuated with hoops, sneakers, graffiti and cooking. The game of basketball taught me lessons and skills that I still hold firmly to this day: communication, teamwork and grit. At the age of 9 watching the “Dream Team” in the ‘92 Olympics planted the seed of wanting to become a footwear designer.

In 2013 I had the first stab of my passion, an internship at Adidas, creating basketball shoes for the Asia market. Next it was reimagining the running prosthetic for a paralympian. The thought of helping an athlete through design is where my passion lives and burns. It’s where industrial, graphic, apparel and fashion design all collide.

That's exactly where I want to be.