Design Inspiration: Nike

By Steven Snell | Published June 24th, 2009 in Inspiration

If you pay attention to advertisements, or if you browse through sites like Behance and deviantART, you’ve probably seen some very inspirational work involving the Nike brand or products. In this post we’ll feature 30 pieces of work for your design inspiration. Some are actual advertisements used by Nike, and others are experimental projects done by designers.

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

Nike Design Inspiration

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22 Comments
  1. Brant on June 25th, 2009

    Nice – Nike always has some of the coolest designs and websites.

  2. Theodore on June 25th, 2009

    Really like the style of these, very cool.

  3. Victoria Web on June 25th, 2009

    These are a shinning example of what new designers can bring to an existing or established brand. The ideas are unique and creative this is a really inspiring article.

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  6. Cali Fagan on June 25th, 2009

    Pretty amazing!

  7. kornykornelius on June 26th, 2009

    AWESOME design!!!

  8. Mars on June 26th, 2009

    this is what i am looking for

  9. Printhouse on June 26th, 2009

    Nike is always inspirational. I like the typography of “life is sport” poster.

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  11. Tim Smith on June 26th, 2009

    I really like the one with the tennis player. What a clever idea! Thanks for posting this, Nike is a great source of inspiration.

  12. Danielle on June 27th, 2009

    awesome! i was just looking for shoes images! tks!

  13. robb on June 27th, 2009

    superb PS works.
    nike always come up with great ads.

  14. designiac on June 27th, 2009

    just awesome! very inspiring. thank you.

  15. Simon on June 28th, 2009

    Amazing works! It shows the power of their brand and how ‘clearly’ people understand what it stands for. Every single design is ‘on brand’ – not too many companies could command that kind of understanding without a brief!

  16. FreelancerCrowd on June 28th, 2009

    I generally hate corporate ads, but these are gooood.

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  18. Nicholas Z. Cardot on June 28th, 2009

    Some of those are awesome! Those are much better than a lot of ads that I see!

  19. Michelle on July 6th, 2009

    Nike’s creative directors are soooooo imaginative! I’m always fascinated with Nike’s ad campaigns! So much inspiration!

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  22. Ashely Adams : Online Printing on November 30th, 2009

    The poster of Nadal is super cool and very creative…I am great fan of Nike and I simply enjoyed going through the list…The Nikeid, the Nike Vintage and the first Nike Air poster is just awesome….The colorful brush work with intricate motifs on some of these is just so cool…I also liked the cartoon illustration; they are very creative indeed…Thanks for sharing this post…