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Adidas displays ‘giant shoe’ in Sharjah desert to market new collection

An anamorphic art piece constructed over eight days, the Adidas activation looks like a 'giant shoe' when viewed from a specific angle, making it highly 'Instagrammable' but normalises into a work of art on the flat sand when viewed from another angle.

Adidas has partnered with US artist David Popa to market its latest Adizero Desert Runner collection through an expansive 100-metre-wide anamorphic art piece that looks like a ‘giant shoe’ in Sharjah’s Al Madam area.

As an anamorphic art piece, the work looks like a ‘giant shoe’ when viewed from a specific angle, making it highly ‘Instagrammable’ but normalises into a work of art on the flat sand when viewed from another angle.

Bringing together the local aspect of desert landscapes, which are critical to the messaging of the Adizero Desert Collection, and the growing culture of the desert runners, Adidas collaborated with earth artist, David Popa, known for this large-scale, sit


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.