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Rick Maderis

Rick Maderis

Portland-based color & graphic designer with 20+ years at adidas, Nike, Jordan Brand and Curry Brand, and founder of Burnside Knives.

Sep 27, 2026

15:12
Um,
15:12
circling back to your, I, uh, your comment on the idea of like the, there would be like a designer and then like a color designer and then, yeah.
15:22
Production artists, there would be a merchandising manager, a product line manager, there would be a studio design director.
15:29
I had this project working on Adidas for, as you remember, you worked on some finish line stuff in your past.
15:35
And there was one where lady footlocker and because like finish line and all of that stuff are foot action, excuse me.
15:44
And all of that kind of was like the t-shirt hub that originals was sending out t-shirts to.
15:50
And during that stint of like making verbiage t-shirts and trying to bring back that and one vibe of like, I mean, I had some, I had some really good ones that were like borderline, you know, like winners like it on top.

45 MINS LATER

61:16
And what itch is that scratching for you that people won't know about if they just have seen your work on the sneaker side?

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