Cottonwood Collection

The Cottonwood was Oboz’s first entry in the “All Terrain” category, bridging the gap between lifestyle and technical hike. The styles allow material layering and various color applications for a versatile hiking application. My role for this collection included upper, tooling and materials design with initial color application.

The Cottonwood collection consists of a men’s and women’s low and mid waterproof. One tooling package is shared across genders.

Design Process

  • Problems to solve

  • On-product branding

  • Design inspiration

  • Design lines

  • M initial sketches

  • W initial sketches

  • M Mid A

  • M Low A

  • M Mid B

  • M Low B

  • W Mid A

  • W Low A

  • W Mid B

  • W Low B

  • M Mid final direction

  • M Mid final direction

  • M Low final direction

  • M low final direction

  • W Mid final direction

  • W Mid final direction

  • W Low final direction

  • Tooling final direction

  • Color blocking direction

W Cottonwood Low BDry Techpack

W Cottonwood Mid BDry Techpack

M Cottonwood Low BDry Techpack

M Cottonwood Mid BDry Techpack

Tooling Drawings

Upper Redlines

Tooling Redlines