Shoe Dog
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Shoe Dog
A term for someone who dedicates their life to making designing selling or studying shoes
Knight embraced being a shoe dog – someone obsessed with the craft and business of footwear
Blue Ribbon Sports
The original name of the company that would become Nike founded by Knight and Bowerman
Blue Ribbon Sports started as a distributor of Japanese running shoes before creating its own
Nike
The company named after the Greek goddess of victory that grew from Blue Ribbon Sports
The Nike name was chosen just before a critical deadline replacing the rejected Dimension Six
Swoosh
The iconic Nike logo designed by Carolyn Davidson for just 35 dollars
The Swoosh became one of the most recognized logos in the world
Onitsuka Tiger
The Japanese shoe company whose products Knight originally imported and distributed
The relationship with Onitsuka Tiger gave Knight his start but eventually became adversarial
Bill Bowerman
Knight former track coach at Oregon and Nike co-founder who innovated shoe designs
Bowerman experimented obsessively with shoe designs including using his wife waffle iron
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